Arena Rule 15. Improper Play
Green Book 2025, Rule 15 · Arena
In plain English
For improper play, the Blue Book governs.
- The Green Book does not restate the rules on improper play. For players' equipment, dangerous play, hooking, striking a pony and misuse of the stick, the Blue Book governs.
- In practice that means the arena game inherits the grass rules on all of it, so rules 30, 33, 34 and 35 of the Blue Book are the ones to read.
On the fieldEquipment, dangerous play, hooking, striking a pony and misuse of the stick all come from the grass rules - the Green Book does not restate them.
The published wording of this one runs to a couple of sentences, so rather than reprint it: read arena rule 15 in the Green Book 2025.
1 question on this rule
Which rulebook governs improper play in the arena?
- The Green Book alone
- The Blue Book ✓
- Whichever the host club adopts
- The FIP regulations
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