Transitioning

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by Rcichon

To anyone with experience transiting one rules set to another:
I'm considering moving up to High School ball from LL.

Congratulations.

Presently, I've called games for 12 years, from Minors to Senior LL level. I know a few people in my area that have been encouraging me to join an assoc. and do HS ball.

How was the transition? As in learning another rules set.. Ever find yourself confused or hesitent with an interp?

People make a big deal out of FED rules. I'll never completely understand why. I mean, LL umpires can accept the concept of the "poof rule" in which a non offending runner is penalized and disappears, yet they have a problem, that in FED, a balk is a dead ball, which was the OBR rule for longer than not.

It's not a difficult transition. FED rules allow for more participation, more safety and to make it easy to approximate a national standard without national training.

Learning new rules is similar to learning a new language. It's best to learn a second language the way you learned your first.

Same with FED.