Great point Nigel. One question though. Often when my kids are close the the edge, I tell them to look where they are at, not to prevent a score but to make sure they know where they are so they don't hit a move only to be out of bounds and not get a score. If anyone watched my kid's on Mat 14 last weekend, they would have seen that our boys used the edge of the mats very effectively to score and when risking not scoring from that position either stagger stepped toward the center or just broke and moved to the center in order to make sure that they got the points when they hit the move. I will agree with you that too often all of the situations you describe are just a blantant attempt to prevent losing a match or giving up points. Education, just like you did with your post is the key to improving the sport and contestants and kids actions. For the sake of the sport, we must work to make the action continue at a fast pace (it is more exciting to fans than stalling) and awarding points as you did in the above example for imminent danger is exactly right. Wish more refs would give the 2+2 in that situation.