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Originally posted by canuckrefguy
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by dave30
Don't be overwhelmed by the rulebook. You need to know it, but don't memorize rules so much that you forget to just referee the game.
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How can you referee the game if you don't know the rules?
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JR learned this one the hard way....
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Good point, and a lotta truth in that one also, Canucklehead. I can remember a coupla situations in my first few years where I went into the dressing room after a game just sooooo proud of the job that I'd just done......and then an evaluator sitting in the stands would come in.........
You learn by your mistakes. If you don't make 'em, you ain't learning. Missing or blowing a call happens to everyone. It's hard to explain mis-applying a rule though because you just didn't know or understand it properly. Lord knows I got that pounded into my hard head often enough when I was starting out.