Hand Disable

Description
"Hans" is the character that drags you off screen when SpongeBob walks for too long on sand or hits a certain trigger that will place SpongeBob at a previous checkpoint.

When the hand is disabled, it does not prevent SpongeBob from getting grabbed by walking on the sand, it will only prevent SpongeBob from getting grabbed by triggers.

When you enter a loading zone while the hand is on the screen, it will disable the hand, preventing him from showing up until he is re-enabled by being in contact with sand for to long.

Uses
Disabling Hans has too many uses to count, and is used in almost every section of the game, and activated at the start of every category on the main leaderboards and in some categories is re-enabled later.

Like stated earlier, when Hans is disabled it prevents him from being grabbed by certain triggers, in most cases this is used for skipping to bottoms of levels, like in Chum Bucket Lab, and grabbing bungee-spatulas and socks without actually using the bungee, most notable in Jellyfish Fields and Flying Dutchman's Graveyard. Those are only two examples. Wherever you can imagine there being invisible triggers to grab SpongeBob, they are now disabled.

The uses of Hans being re-enabled can be to enable shiny grinding tech used in 100% categories in Rock Bottom, and skip some cutscenes by entering the sand during a cutscene with a Cruise Boost

When Hans is disabled it also allows for the SpongeGlide trick to be possible.

Hans must be enabled for Bubble Bowl Boosting to be utilized.

If Autosave is on, while grabbing the Cowa-Bungee! spatula in Jellyfish Fields, if you pause and select a stage from the pause menu, you can access any sand that Hans would normally would grab you if you stand too long. This will be in effect until you grab another Golden Spatula.