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Just Had a New Officials Camp
Here in metro Atlanta, we just had a camp like that for a week. We used shadow officials with lots of compassion and knowledge as some of the campers it was their very first experience with the whistle. For one day, the simplier the better. Hopefully it will be just 2 man mechanics; using 3 person mechanics and terms might blow them away. Since we had a week, we did both but we were able by the 4th night to put some guys in strictly 3 man while others we could see that they could only handle 2 person with a shadow. Work on the whistle volume, closed fist, open hand (violation), two thumbs (jump ball) and then get into the various foul and violation signals. Keep a good list of the attendees and then followup later in the summer for classroom information regarding the rules and more on court recognition.
Michael
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