Practicing Two-Hand Reporting

[LRZ]

Perhaps the "move to the designated reporting area" instruction carries an implicit "and stop."

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by LRZ

Perhaps the "move to the designated reporting area" instruction carries an implicit "and stop."

Maybe, but if the Manual does not include language that explicitly requires stopping in the reporting area, there will be plenty of officials in my area and others nationwide who will begin (or continue to) report while moving absent specific instructions from the powers-that-be. (In SC it's never been hammered statewide to report while still, but plenty of purists will downgrade your peer ratings (not a joke, we have those) if you are not by-the-book with your mechanics.)

I like the walk-and-talk method of reporting, but I wouldn't lose sleep over not getting to use it.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by LRZ

Perhaps the "move to the designated reporting area" instruction carries an implicit "and stop."

Maybe, but again such a non-issue in the bigger scheme. I just find if funny once again that people even worried about what is or is not required. The NF changes something and leaves out the other important parts of the process. And then we wonder why not everyone follows their procedures to the letter. Well, this is an example of why. You cannot get this part right, why bother following them?

Peace

[LRZ]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Maybe, but again such a non-issue in the bigger scheme.

Things like this become issues when assigners and evaluators mandate them. At my age, I'm not concerned about getting dinged, but people get "demerits" for not doing things by an assigner's "book."

[rockyroad]

Getting "dinged" for not following proper mechanics is a fact of life in the officiating world. Watched a couple of outstanding officials - excellent judgement, great game management skills, handled some tough situations really well - not advance to the championship games because they wouldn't get to the "box" to report, and used two-hand reporting at the table. They were by far the best officials at the State tournament, but wouldn't follow the proper mechanics. It happens. Not hard to do it right, they just didn't want to.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Getting "dinged" for not following proper mechanics is a fact of life in the officiating world. Watched a couple of outstanding officials - excellent judgement, great game management skills, handled some tough situations really well - not advance to the championship games because they wouldn't get to the "box" to report, and used two-hand reporting at the table. They were by far the best officials at the State tournament, but wouldn't follow the proper mechanics. It happens. Not hard to do it right, they just didn't want to.

Originally Posted by LRZ

Things like this become issues when assigners and evaluators mandate them. At my age, I'm not concerned about getting dinged, but people get "demerits" for not doing things by an assigner's "book."

We have mandates too here, but that does not mean people do not vary from them. And if you have the right "juice" you can overcome them. I know that a few of us could not do the team control foul sequence right and all it hurt was us paying out a beer. Yes, they wanted us to do it right, but it was the running joke. We did all the other things we were basically supposed to do, but it did not hurt my status or others because they were not "perfect." So I doubt anyone in my area is going to care how we do this mechanic in that much detail.

Peace