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Originally posted by Kelvin green
Juulie

Here's some advice I learned a few years ago...and it helped me a lot, and you can do it most anywhere. Your husband, kids, and friends will think your nuts, but...

You mentioned you cant ref and do mechanics.... try this

Use visualizaton exerises and see a foul... then practice calling it ( in front of a mirror at home, in your car while sitting at a red light, walking down the stairs, see a foul, stop.. see the players and then go through the mechanics... fist up reporting signals etc can all be done.

heck watch an NBA game, if you need to pull out a whistle and blow it and report to a mirror.

What I have seen with newer officials is that they seem self conscious about making stupid signals infront of people. Get to where you make almost all calls routine ( then practice for the big bang bang play) ( block charge)

If you run over the scenarios in your mind and visualize plays, the clera charge, the sliding defender, and the practice the mechanics over and over, when you get on the floor the whistle goes off and you'll make the right mechanics since they are now second nature, and you have seen your self in a mirror....

Then get videoed and watch those mechanics, and work on something so that they are sharp and crisp.... then that is a part of the game you wont need to work as much on.... we all slip and start doing dumb stuff but it will be easier to get back to doing them right once somebody points them out....

The when you go out and ref, you know what the mechanics are, you are confident because you dont think about them and then you can ref the game....


If it's coverage talk to your self while watching games about who has ball, who has on ball, when would you rotate? the more you talk to yourself about where good position is you'll know where it is on the floor....

anyway a couple of thought for what they are worth

Good advice, I wish I had written it.