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Originally posted by ReadyToRef
Tim Roden, what are some of the "teaching camps?"
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The majority of camps you will find are teaching camps. These are camps who's sole purpose is to teach you how to officiate basketball. Most of the these camps do have a tryout aspect to it but that should not be your purpose in attending. If you go to these camps with tryout in mind then you won't learn what you need to to move on. But since HS Varisty assignors are usually there, you are being evaluated as well as taught.
That said, there are various levels of teaching from camp to camp. Some camps only want those who have officiated less then three years. Some cater to all levels of officials. Some only want those who are ready to move up to college or high level HS Varsity. I can't give you any specific ones because I don't know your area of the country. I can tell you if you live in Colorado, then there is Al English, for the officials who wants to concentrate on HS ball. This is a good one for the first to fifth year official. He has a two man only camp. Dave Hall's camp caters to the middle of the road where first year officials work with Veterans who are getting ready for Div I tryout camp. His is both two man and three man. Then there is Vern Harris who focus's on the officials who has been calling a few years and wants to move on to the next level. His camp is totally three man.
There are a small minority of camps that are tryout camps. They cost a lot of money and the sole purpose is to find new talent to call college ball. From what I have been told, the only thing you will learn is that there are 30 other officials that are just as good as you, probably better.