Sideways-on

In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts.

The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball.

What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy.