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Contact and Fouls
• Ultimate is a non-contact sport. Any bodily contact other than incidental contact is a foul.
• A player who is fouled is responsible for calling it by shouting “FOUL!”
• When a foul occurs, all players must freeze where they are on the field.
• Contact between a defending player and a player throwing the disc is considered a foul.
• Setting a “pick” is not allowed and is considered a foul.
• When making a catch, contact between players going for the disc is a foul (unless the contact is incidental). The disc is given to the player who would have made the catch if there had been no contact.
• Any foul may be “contested.” On a contested foul, the disc goes back to the player who threw it.
• After a foul, play resumes by the defense “checking” the disc.
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