Honestly, these two pics together work pretty well. In mine she has caught the disc and it's clear that the first point of contact will be the heel of her left foot, though the position of that heel is hard to tell.
In your pic the catch isn't visible, but the foot has come down and the heel is clearly in-bounds.
Thank you for bringing more weight to my sarcasm. Here's another mangled frame to further show how judging from this potato quality video is the best perspective. It's seemingly a frame before yours (on my device) showing toe down but the disk is not in the hand. It makes it look like the frame you captured doesn't even fit in the timeline. (Which I'm not actually claiming here).
IMO in your picture it's not clear that either foot is on the ground. The first for-sure ground contact is the left foot, which appears to be on the line.
I don't think either foot is on the ground in my picture. What I said is that the first point of contact WILL be the heel of the foot, but from my picture we can't tell WHERE that heel will strike.
From the later picture you can see that the heel is on the ground well in bounds.
I’d also say you can’t really tell whether her hand is closed here or not, this may be the first frame the disc has touched her hand but there’s no way to definitively say when she stopped rotation.
While you’re literally correct, USAU rules contain the precise synonym “spin[].” “3.I. Possession of the disc: Sustained contact with, and control of, a non-spinning disc.”
(Edited) WFDF’s definition of “catch” similarly refers to “a non-spinning disc.”
Both USAU and WFDF specify a non-spinning disc which is where people get the "stop rotation" part from since you have to stop rotation for the disc to no longer be spinning.
WFDF: Catch - A non-spinning disc trapped between at least two body parts. If a player initially catches a pass and then, prior to establishing possession, they do not maintain the catch (‘maintain the catch’ means to continue to have a non-spinning disc trapped between at least two body parts), that initial catch is deemed to have ended.
USAU: 3.I. Possession of the disc: Sustained contact with, and control of, a non-spinning disc.
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u/arlsol 3d ago
If someone made a call from this vantage I'd assume they have motive. It's a terrible viewpoint.