Lacrosse Penalties Explained

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Hi! this is Tamir Elterman on behalf of expert village.com and in this clip we are going to talk about penalties. I am going to go through the different penalties and show you what a referee might signal in order for you to be able to easily recognize those when watching or playing a game. Various actions on the lacrosse field that will result in a penalty and be deemed illegal. Some of the most common ones are off sides, slashing, crosschecking and warding. Off sides is when a defensive player crosses onto the other team’s offensive half or an offensive player crosses onto their own team’s defensive half. These halves are marked by the mid line on the field. There are certain ways to hitting lacrosse that are not legal in other ways that are illegal. Illegal areas include below the waist, above the shoulders and in the back. If you hit someone with the stick in one of these illegal places it will result in a one minute technical slashing ?? (0100). Another illegal way to check somebody with your stick is called the crosscheck. When you hit someone with your stick your hands have to be together or practically together. You cannot have them apart and push your opponent or that will result in a crosscheck penalty. You are cradling with one hand with the defender on you, you cannot move the hand that is not on the stick. Even if he is hitting you with his stick you cannot push off where it results in a change of possession warding call. These were just some of the most basic rules in lacrosse and as you advance in your career you will learn more about the more obscure ones.

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