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I attended an ASA National School about 15 years ago.
At the time I had worked a half dozen years of slow pitch and a couple of fast pitch. I found the school to be great. They corrected a lot of problems and created a solid foundation of officiating mechanics that I have relied on ever since. The instructors were fantastic. We probably had 50 plus attendees and at least 3 national instructors and another couple higher caliber officials from the local area.
As I recall, time spent on fast pitch was very slight - one drill. But the other general stuff that is applicable to both games was superb. And it formed a solid foundation to build on and improve. Yeah we did all the how to make an out call, a safe, a sell out... how do you call a foul ball but we also intimately discussed rules, applicability, teamwork, history of the game, responsibility, positioning, attitude, game situations, techniques, ...
Even now, with 20 years of fast pitch and baseball experience, I would be tempted to attend another one and would highly recommend it to anyone else. Life is always such that you get out of it what you put into it. I know that statement is a banality... but I still find it to be true.
The school has served me well.
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"There are no superstar calls. We don't root for certain teams. We don't cheat. But sometimes we just miss calls." - Joe Crawford
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