Good Clinics
 

Have you ever been to a clinic where you felt "ah, I really learned a lot"

I'm going on a clinic the day after tomorrow, with Alan Richardson :D I'm really looking forward to that

WTF is Alan Richardson? :)

Yes I did, last year I went to the Officially-Officials camp in Florida. D2/D3/NAIA camp with very dedicated observers mostly from the S.E.C.

Unfortunately, the best observer I encountered at that camp (or probably any other camp I've been to) got in trouble with the more famous SEC.

Alan Richardson was appointed as head referee when Euroleuge started, he has been FIBA's referee instructor for several years and hold clinics all over the world. And he went to the US to study american referee's and clinics before starting his own ;)
You can read about him at this site:

http://members.aol.com/alaricha/alan1.htm
and I found a better site then this but I can't remember the URL atm so I'll post it up later

I learned a lot at the SEC Camp in Las Vegas and came away with just that thought!!!!!:D

I found that the Coast to Coast camps have been fantastic and learned a ton, plus it's great hearing the war stories from the NBA vets.

I went to the IAABO 3-person camp in Orlando last year and thought it was a waste of money. If you're new to 3-person or wanting to break into varsity or college (one college assignor was there), then it might be a good learning experience, but otherwise they don't teach you a whole lot and I didn't think the feedback really helped enhance my game. I apologize if it sounds like I'm tooting my own horn, but I don't like hearing afterwards that I did a great job and them leave it at that. For the money I pay, I want my game dissected.

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! :)

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 ;)

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

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) ;)

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)

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

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 :D