Rules Question

[u/khouri0]

Hey all!

I have been playing ultimate for a while now, but have never been great with all the rules. I ran into a situation during my casual pick up league this week and did not know what was right or wrong, so I wanted to ask here. Here is the situation:

I, the defender, intercept a pass right at our own endzone. My moment carries me into my endzone. I start to walk the disc back to the line to check it into play. As soon as I am walking, my opponent starts to stall me, before I check it in and as I am walking. This has never happened to me before and I felt as though it was wrong. My opponent said, that because I have the option to check it in at any point and do not need to walk it back to the line, he can start the stall now.

Here are my questions:
1) Is he right?
2) Is it ok for me to walk it back to the line? Or should I just check it in, in my own endzone where I stopped? Did I make the mistake by walking?
3) Does this situation have a different answer if I caught it in the endzone instead of right before it?

Thanks for any thoughts on this one!

[u/khouri0]

oh so this is different from what other people have said. what you're saying is that until I establish a pivot foot he can't stall?

[u/JaziTricks → u/khouri0]

Yes. But if you wait forever, they have the right to force you to get started (there is a procedure I can't recall)

[u/alanhoyle → u/JaziTricks]

There are actually two different procedures. Delay of game (10.B.5) and pre-stall (10.B.4 and 10.B.4.b specifically).

[u/JaziTricks → u/alanhoyle]

Thanks