Good Clinics

[Dribble]

Crazy Voyager, do you know if Alan Richardson is coming to North America anytime in the future? I'd actually love to go to a FIBA camp because *knock on wood* I'd love to officiate international ball one day. Career-wise I could never dedicate myself to pro ball in the States full-time, but the Olympics and world championships only happen every few years, so I could definitely squeeze those in if I was good enough to be chosen!

[crazy voyager]

I don't know acctually, I havn't got a schedule. But if I find one I'll post it up here (or pm/mail) you

[crazy voyager]

found the site
http://www.candobasketball.co.uk/About.htm

[NICK]

If you are going to a clinic run by Alan Richardson, you are doing good, we have used quite a bit of his material here in our region- cheers

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by NICK

If you are going to a clinic run by Alan Richardson, you are doing good, we have used quite a bit of his material here in our region- cheers

You might even be doing well. (sorry Chuck)

[crazy voyager]

I'm definetly doing better then the referee team who called my game this morning (yeah I'm a player too), I have the call of the day

Block by our PF, clean, no call (good ref)
other team gets it and puts it up again, our PF jumps up and blocks again (the ball must be a good 30-40 cms off the players hand) the whoole gym is screaming, then the ref steps out with a fist up
he has called a foul, and if he have blown his whistle NOBODY heard it (not even the players on the court, they kept playing)

If you mess the call up and for some reason can not admit it was wrong and rule it as a bad whistle, then at least blow your whistle! Bah, bad bad bad ref, but we won (after a really good game)

[Kostja]

Hey Crazy Voyager,

Where are you going? I know Alan will be in Poland next month, and hold his own camp in England in July ... Do you know of any other camps in Europe (in Sweden, the rest of Scandinavia, Eastern Europe ...)?

Have fun and let us know how it went!

Cheers,
Kostja

[crazy voyager]

I went to the Clinic at the basketball festival in gothenburg (sweden). And no I don't know where he's headed now but who ever "gets" him is lucky

And the clinic were really good, I got a lot of questions answered. What suprised me was that he simplified a lot (esspecialy the prinicple of verticality and cylinder) but when I think about it afterwards, the principle isn't harder then you make it. If you make it simple, you have it easier when you call games later

Also quite intresting was the emphasize he did on hand checking, I watched a game in the cup the day afterwards and I saw right away what he was thinking. The way defenders use the back of their hand to get in front of the offensive player, the officials were good though (or they went to the clinic) cause they called it

Summarised you can say that I learned a lot, the only bad side is that the season's over now so I can't use the new knowladge til next season :/ But it was a really good clinic