An Illustrated Manual for Inflicting Violence: A Guide to Fightering

[KorvinStarmast]

To add to this, Crawford's ruling fits the text as written:

I'm pretty sure most people read if-then statements as though the contingent action must precede the resultant action.

Hmm, my browser/GiTP just ate both of my replies to you. Suffice to say it is not written as an if then statement, as I read it, but it is OK to disagree about that.