Charging Foul | Harford County Sports Photography

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If you are a non-sports fan, or specifically, a non-basketball fan,

you may think the title of this post is referring to some sort of 

shopping faux pas involving your credit card ;)

If you are sports fan like me,

you might have realized I am referring to a basketball foul

that is quite difficult for a defensive player to get called

on an offensive player.

I was excited to capture the moment this weekend when

my son was able to "pull a charging foul" from the offensive player

by planting his feet firmly in a defensive stance and remaining still

as the ball handler illegally plowed into him (knees to waist and all).

The reason this foul is so difficult to get called is because the typical reaction from a human

is to slide one's feet to lessen the blow when another human is hurling themselves at you.

Protection and self-preservation, it turns out, is the instinct of mankind.

But, alas, sliding one's foot in a protective mode will not help your cause

in basketball as doing this will instead cause the ref to call a blocking foul on you 

instead of on the charging offensive player!

So, the name of the game is to be stoic, still, and when slammed into,

fall like an ancient tree straight to the hardwood gymnasium floor.

You know,

act like a tree, not a human.

A full angle shot to appreciate perspective of where the basket was:

And a cropped shot to better appreciate the blow to the upper body ;)

To see the other two shots in this series

(my son falling to the floor)

check on Nine Acres Designs on Facebook sometime today.

And check back tomorrow to see a few more shots I grabbed from the game this weekend as well.

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