FIBA Rules Explained: Cylinder, Block & Charge

Art. 33 Contact General Principles. There are plenty of different types of contact principles that we will look that will be separated into different videos. This video will specifically look at the Cylinder principle (Art. 33.1), Principle of Verticality (33.2), Legal Guarding Position (Art.33.3), Guarding a player who controls the ball (Art 33.4), Guarding a player who does not controls the ball (Art 33.5), Charging (art 33.8) and blocking (Art 33.9). All of these play a part in determining who is at fault for contact and help increase your success on correct block/charge plays.

0:12 Introduction
0:53 Cylinder Principle
4:21 Charging and Blocking Definitions
4:49 Legal Guarding Position
5:44 Guarding a player who controls the ball
8:26 Guarding a player who does not controls the ball
10:26 Principle of Verticality
12:33 Film Room Session

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[vodanh]

2 years after the release of the video I still use it to refresh myself and teach other refs. Keep up the work

[sunshineliftusup]

This is the best video on the topic that I've seen

[ThomasHodson]

Brilliant! Thanks so much for the clear explanations, it's helped me figure out some fundamental mistakes I've been making for years. It would have been awesome to get explanations over the end video examples as what I saw and what the call was didn't always match up 🤔

[tribe-r]

This video was very informative and easy to understand. Thank you much.

[erizsharper]

Thank you sirr for this video it really refresh our mind sometimes we tend to forget the details, great video highly recommend this to all the referees regardless their experience

[andrewcarey]

Great instructional video (again!!) - Keep em coming!!

[ryuga]

I wholeheartedly thank you for this video.
Thank u very much for explaining these concepts and helping us understand better.

[fitnesswitness]

Totally amazing layout of the rules thanx so much

[kappablancA]

we have a discussion almost every practice about a very specific scenario

Player A is on a sort of Fastbreak situation, nobody is in front of him, but player B is coming from behind and tries to block the ball
Player A wipes his guarding hand behind him and it creates a contact with player B

so Player A contacts with his arm slightly out of the cylinder, while player B also is coming from behind (no legal guarding position) and infiltrates player A's cylinder

whats the right call here?

[mindaugasbalsys]

Thank's for this video great work.But one question when draymond green kicked the player against it was a whistled foul for him and then green kicked him for it or not a double foul here?

[paulrevere]

good video.. however it would be better if your added more clearly what you were showing in the videos... you could go to slow motion and use some kind of pointer or circle the part that shows what you are talking about.. in the videos most of the time it was obvious what the call was... but it would be great to have you clearly identify it on the video to confirm our suspicions about the call. You could stop frame and say see here this player has proper position but his hands are outside his circle... which means.... and you can also identify no call was correct because.... etc etc

[goulioofficial]

at 6:06 we have airbone player .the defender white with number 6 has one foot in the space of no charge semicircle.This is a non call situation ? thanks a lot you are the best keep going!!!

[thewelshwizard]

I love this and the new rules video you guys have posted, but surely, you didn't say at 6:37 that the defender, after establishing Legal Guarding Position, "CAN extend his arms, shoulders, hips or legs to prevent the dribbler passing by them", you surely meant CAN'T.

[nuikire]

if a defender has their arms straight up within their cylinder and are in a legal guarding position and the offensive player with the ball jumps up and to the side in front of them and hooking onto the defenders arm, knocking them over, is that a charge? love the video by the way it was really helpful.

[Uprising]

dramond green kicked his way out of the cylinder

[StephenWong]

There's much gray area in lateral movement to maintain guarding position, especially when you're defending someone attacking the basket. It relies a lot on the discretion of the referee.

[isaakvanwegen]

Why is 12:55 a block? Isnt he moving laterally

[kicksgeeks]

Hi, is there a way I can send you a situation clip and ask some question regarding the cylinder principle?

[SpowlStreams]

4:57 So if I go vertical on the corner 3 pointer and my defender goes vertical too but touches my hands with his, is he entering my cylinder?

[bluefiery]

Great video. What about on-ball defense with minimal hand contact? Also what about post defense, can you place your arm on the offensive player?