What is lifting, and is tilting allowed?

Lifting (Art. 31.1) is raising your buttocks so that both cheeks lose contact with the seat platform (or the cushion, if you use one) to gain an unfair advantage. You may not lift to:

• shoot, rebound or pass;
• try to block an opponent's shot or pass;
• try to catch a pass from a team-mate;
• contest the opening tap-off.

You also may not make your whole wheelchair leave the floor with both hands off the rear wheels ("jumping").

Penalty:

• Lifting is a technical foul: 1 free throw to the opponents, then a throw-in to the team that had, or was entitled to, the ball. If neither team had it, it is a held ball situation.
• If you lift while trying to block a shot, you are charged a technical foul and the shooter gets free throws as for a shooting foul: the goal counts plus 1 free throw if it went in, or 2 or 3 free throws if it missed.
• If that blocking lift happens as, or just before, the game clock or shot clock signal sounds, while the ball is still in the shooter's hands, a successful goal does not count. The shooter gets 2 or 3 free throws instead.
• In these blocking cases, play restarts with a throw-in to the team that had the ball or had just shot.

Leaning to pick the ball up off the floor and lifting both cheeks off the seat is a violation, not a foul (Art. 31.3).

Tilting is legal (Art. 31.4). That means lifting one rear wheel and one front castor off the floor, with one or both hands off the wheels, while shooting, defending, receiving or intercepting a pass, rebounding or in the tap-off.