Matt, contact your local YMCA or youth league director. I'm sure that they would help you get started with kids who are far enough under you age that they will still respect you and your whistle. By the time you get old enough to ref HS games, you will be polished and ready to do Varsity. One of the E-Referee staff guys that writes a lot of the HTML for this web site started like you. He is now about 20 and does some of the biggest games in the San Antonio Chapter. He will be a big time college official in just a couple of years. You need to find someone who is willing and capable of being a mentor to you and you need to call with the same 2-3 guys a lot at first. Do not get started with another young (under 18) official or someone who does not know proper mechanics and rules. If you are going to learn, it is much easier to learn the right way than to break bad habits later.
Ok, I have a question for you. A1 begins a drive toward the basket and defender B1 is guarding. Airborne A1 releases a try and before coming to the ground, collides with B1. One official signals A for a charge and one official signals B for blocking. The shot went in. Using NF rules and interpretations, what happens next?
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