What is a Hand Check? One hand? Two Hands? One or more touches? Watch this video and find out.

This is Rule Review and our coverage on plays involving hand checks. This video is dedicated to educating basketball officials on the proper way to rule on contact involving hand(s) on a ball handler. Watching actual videos of plays involving hand checks, along with some basic instruction explaining each rule, helps officials learn faster and retain rule information better. We can all learn together by continually discussing the rules as they are written in the NFHS rules book and viewing actual high school basketball games reinforces that learning.
Unfortunately, many times officials fail to blow their whistle when a hand check happens on a ball handler but if we review Rule 10 in the NFHS rules book, we find out hand contact on all ball handlers should be ruled a foul. This is what we will be reviewing in this segment of Rule Review. And remember, all video clips we reference to highlight hand checks are from high school games and focus solely on the NFHS high school rules book.
Video #1
A dribbler tries moving around the top of the three point line when his defender reaches out with both hands and touches the ball handler. The officials correctly blows his whistle and rules a hand check foul.
Video #2
The dribbler this time drives down the side of the court and toward the basket when his opponent places the side of his forearm on his hip and keeping it on until both officials blow their whistle for a foul. But if he didn't actually use his hand, why is this a hand check foul? Watch to find out.
Video #3
A post player backs his way toward the basket and into the lane, eventually turning and attempting a shot. His defender keeps a hand in his back the entire way, only to take it off when the ball handler turns to shoot. Why didn't the officials call a foul? Is the fact the dribbler is a post player?
Video #4
The ball handler is dribbling in the corner, near the division line, moving back and forth, trying to evade his opponent. His defender is touching his opponent with his hands, alternating one after the other and never placing two on at the same time. Does this matter? The officials ruled this a foul and signals a hold but shouldn't the signal be a hand check?
Watching video clips is a good way to stay connected to the skill of officiating basketball but true education and learning can more effectively be attained when each video is annotated with diagrams and shading to point out key teaching points.
The Officials Institute, and the Rule Review segment, creates videos that don't leave you guessing about whether there was a foul, violation or not. Even though we cannot officiate in slow motion or freeze frames, by watching and reviewing video video in this fashion, we are able to "retrain our brain" so we can start seeing plays more accurately when we do see them in real time and increase our ability to get the call right.
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All rules referenced in this video are taken from the official rules book provided by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). To find out more about the NFHS, you can visit them at nfhs.org/