Category: Rules

From the Rules committee chair, Nick Kruse:

NAH has completed the final proposal for the 2014 ruleset. Building on years prior, we have highlighted some critical safety concerns and filled in holes that had previously allowed for what we deemed to be unfair play as observed over the course of the season. Also, some technical descriptions, sizes and measurements were hashed out to a finer specification. We hope that you will find the ruleset to be more organized and worded better, on the whole.

The ruleset presented here has not been voted on by NAH yet, and is therefore a proposal. Organizers for upcoming off-season events have inquired about the release of this ruleset prior to the NAH schedule. We want to be supportive of this, in order to test the ruleset and to let referees and players gain familiarity with some of the bigger changes, so we are releasing this beta version. The Epiphanie tournament overseas and the Great Lakes Winter Classic up in Toronto this winter will use this ruleset as a feeler — we are hoping that all players involved in bike polo can gain familiarity with this document. Please, use it in any upcoming pick-up sessions or tournaments near you.

NAH Ruleset v4.0 Beta

Representatives and the board will be voting on this in two weeks time. There are changes in this ruleset that will affect, at the least, game play in the 2014 regional qualifiers and North Americans, so read over it. I will be sure to answer any questions. We are really confident in what we’ve produced here and hope that you will find that vast improvements have been made.

– Nick

Email here or via Contact Form.

In an effort to advance the education of the rules for players and the confidence of referees, we have developed a site that will provide learning materials and testing capabilities to be used for the NAH Referee Certification system. This is our first effort and only an initial step in developing a final product. We will continue to produce these materials and refine the tests over this season. The NAH Referee Certification will feature questions in multiple choice, short-answer, and essay-style form. Because the site is capable of embedding video right into the course material, certain essay-style questions will feature real-life situations that test critical thinking and application of the rules.

If you would like to contribute to creating these course materials please use the contact form located here. One specific task we need help with is pinpointing fouls in videos so we can edit them down. This is a time-consuming task so any help we can get would be awesome. And again, please remember this is just the first test in a long process, and we appreciate any support we can get from the community.

Anyone who would like to volunteer to referee at the NAHBPC should go register and take the quiz. Additionally, all teams playing in the NAHBPC need to have one player register and complete the quiz. Please follow the instructions here: http://ref.nahardcourt.com/signup-for-nas/

The main page can be found here: http://ref.nahardcourt.com/.