Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: All right. Hey, everybody. Kevin here with Sky. Probably not even gonna hardly speak because this is a quick special edition update slash whoops on my part. Oh, yeah, she is gonna speak. On the last podcast, I should have included two other rules that I think are worth talking about.
One is called the sportsmanship rule. It is now actually a rule to call your teammate on a fault.
So if I see you step in the kitchen on a volley shot, it is a rule that I am to call you on that fault.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: That's good to know.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Look, most of us that are nice and honest, caring people would have done it anyway.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: But it's now a rule for those people that are not.
So that's a rule that I wanted to quickly update.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: You said there's another.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
Now I'm trying to remember what it was. Oh. So there was this idea that I'm actually, like, correcting an error in the thinking on the rules.
This idea that's been floating around for the month of January that supposedly, if you and I see our opponent. Sorry, if you see our opponent in the kitchen also committing an infraction, hitting a volley and going in the kitchen.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: Right.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: That I also have to see it before our team can call it. Oh, well, that's actually wrong.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: I was gonna say that could be very tricky.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: And I had been listening to the people talking about the rules, and they were saying that that was a rule, and I was like, ah. I even had a conversation the other night with James and Robin. I was like, if it's a rule, we're not putting it in place here at bcc. Like, not as long as I'm around.
Well, it's not a rule.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Good.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: That's good news.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: I do think there was one more, so. So hang tight with me. I'm pulling up my notes.
Okay. So the other rule that's important is this.
You used to have to hold your hand, or your paddle technically, above your head when you were signaling that you were not yet ready to return a serve.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Remember, like, you kind of put your hand up, but. But the rule actually said you had to have your paddle above your head.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: I did not know that rule.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Well, they've changed that rule. You can still do that, I believe, but you also can say, I'm not ready.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: Oh, good.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Or wait. Or hold up. Like, you can give a verbal normal. You can give a verbal cue now. Right. You can't say, like, flying purple martinis and hope that that's going to get it done. But.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Or keep your hand up like you're being questioned by a teacher.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah. So you can now give a verbal cue that you're not yet ready and they're to give you time to get ready. Now, there is. I don't know the language that I should use to describe this, but there is sort of an understanding that you can't just wait all day to get ready. Like, you need to get your position and be ready.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Right.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: But if you're walking backwards, you're trying to get your feet straight, you have to scratch your eyeball, like, whatever.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: You sneeze.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Then it's okay to be like, I'm not yet ready. Ball comes on the court. Everyone should stop for that. Anyway, so those are kind of the. The things that I wanted to call out for this year's rules that I missed before. So that's it for this special edition. We're going to go back to this music and say goodbye. Everybody dial. My mom got that thing. Yeah, they call me the business.
