Advice for rookie officials

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Chess Ref
I really am enjoying this thread.

JRut- I hear what you are saying. I also think for me right now its more important that I work on keeping my games under control. If in 5 years I still am calling everything well then I screwed the pooch somewhere along the way. And the games I have now are the games I will be getting for the next 4/5 years. So lots of time to figure out 'Stuff" like Adv/Dis.

SmE-Pretty close to my new found way of thinking. I mean I let it get to the point of Frosh girls were figuring out anything less than Assault & Battery, then they could do it. So this year my goals are

A. Keeping games under control. Game management with coaches.
B. Strong mechanics / strong presence. I have body postures issues.
C. Adv/Disad

A. With freshman coaches you should have lots of opportunity to work on this.

B. Good plan for everyone at any level.

C. With freshmen girls this might be tough. Maybe work towards keeping a patient whistle but taking the obvious ones immediately. If that makes sense.

Good luck & have fun!