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Originally posted by mattbt:
I am a basketball referee from Sydney, Australia and have heard a lot about 'camps' from the officiating websites I have visited. What are they? We don't have anything like that in Australia, merely action days advising of rule changes and pre-tournament meetings outlining points of emphasis over the coming tournament. From what I have heard from American officials, they attribute a great deal of their success to attending 'camps'. Can someone give me some more information so maybe, we can get some sort of camp structure available in Australia.
Cheers
matt
Matt,
Officials'Clinic are sometimes held in conjunction with basketball team camps which are often sponsored by Universities.
The teams play games, sometimes in a tournament format, other times in a meet-every-other-team-once format, which may, or may not, be finalized with a single elimination tournament. (There are several different alternatives to getting the teams to the repective sites.)
The Officials' clinic sponsors, or producers, provide the officiating for the games that are played at the team camps.
Officials that wish to improve their games pay to go to these clinics. In return for the pay, these officials are video-taped, fed, housed, and taught in classroom surroundings, and learn techiniques and philosophies for handling Coaches, players, fands, rules, mechanics, assignors and generally, they learn humility.
Good luck; camps are good.
mick
Is it getting crowded in town?
[This message has been edited by mick (edited September 10, 2000).]