WFTDA Section 6.1 - 6.10

No Impact / No Penalty
6.5.4 - Contact made with the forearms when forearms are pulled into the body.


Major Penalty
6.5.6 - Extended touching (lasting three seconds or more) with the forearms or hands to an opponent’s legal and/or illegal target zone.

Major penalty
6.5.8.2 - Use of hands or forearms to grab or hold an opposing skater impeding that skater’s mobility, causing that skater to lose advantage, or forcing that skater to the ground.

Major Penalty

6.2.2 - Any block with initial contact landing above the shoulders.

As long as the block itself is legal, you and/ or your opponent can be skating backwards.

6.8.11 - There is no penalty for blocking a skater who has jumped off both skates and left contact with the track from in bounds.

6.4.1 - When engaging another skater, elbows may not be swung with a forward/backward motion.

6.8.3 - If a skater forces an opponent out of bounds while blocking, the initiating Blocker must cease blocking before their own skates touch outside the track boundary. No part of the initiating Blocker’s skate may touch the ground outside the track boundary.

6.8.7 - A skater who is straddling the line may not engage, block, or assist because the skater has one skate down outside the track boundary and is out of bounds by definition.

6.8.8

6.8.10 - Downed skaters re-entering the track are subject to blocking out of bounds penalties, even if the downed skater has fallen small.

No Impact/No Penalty: 6.3.5 - A downed skater re-entering the track that causes an opposing skater to stumble but not fall or lose relative position.

6.9.3 - Skaters are permitted to skate clockwise on the track provided they do not block, assist, or otherwise engage teammates or opponents.

6.8.11 - There is no penalty for blocking a skater who has jumped off both skates and left contact with the track from in bounds.

Major Penalty

6.5.6 - Extended touching (lasting three seconds or more) with the forearms or hands to an opponent’s legal and/or illegal target zone.

Major penalty
6.6.3 - Initiating a block with the head, regardless of impact or advantage.

Hitting an opponent in the back of the torso, back of the legs, or back of the booty is prohibited (see Section 5.2.2). Hitting an opponent with a legal blocking zone into a legal target zone while positioned behind said opponent is not blocking to the back and is not illegal.

6.10.2.1.1 - The rules do not define pack speed. Illegally destroying the pack penalties shall not be given for gradually deviating from the speed of the pack as established through game play, unless said deviation is sudden, rapid, and marked, leaving the opposing team no opportunity to adjust and maintain a pack.

Major Penalty
6.1.2 - Any contact to the back of an opponent that forces the receiving opposing skater out of their established position. This includes forcing a skater down, out of bounds, or out of position.

6.7.1 - Skaters may not grab and hold each other’s uniform or equipment in a multi-player block.

6.3.9 - Habitual contact between skates and wheels that is part of the normal skating motion that causes an opposing skater to stumble, fall, or lose relative position. The intent is to penalize skaters whose normal skating motion is dangerous to opponents. A single skater who repeatedly low blocks other skaters, even in normal skating motions, is adversely affecting game play and safety.