+1 to ground check. I usually advocate that USAU rules should change to be closer to WFDF – but this rule is the one exception. For a sport that prides itself on inter-team communication, why are we communicating with each other WHERE the thrower is establishing a pivot foot and WHEN the marker can start stalling.
I’m thinking of scenarios where the disc goes out of bounds and the thrower is bringing the disc up along the sideline. As a marker, I’m left guessing whether they’ve set a pivot where they are or they’re merely slowing down because they’re about to set a pivot on the next step.
To Ravi’s point: yes, it’s slightly more awkward for the thrower. But it’s significantly less awkward for the marker and everyone else on the field timing things off the thrower.