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Tell you what, go outside, run and spin in the air and see where your arms end up. I’m pretty confident it wouldn’t be dissimilar to what you saw tonight
My understanding of instruction is that if you're deliberately jumping at the ball, you are responsible for keeping your arms out of the way and not using them to take up extra space. The deliberate action is flinging oneself in front of the ball that is going to be kicked. (Whether this would change with the silhouette concept that IFAB is introducing, I haven't a clue.)