Remembering the AP

[JRutledge]

Do not use a rubber band or any other device where you have to literally change from one part of your body to another. It looks stupid and makes you look like a rookie. Just like you remember anything else in the game, get in tune to the game and just remember. Start from the tip off and the first thought in your mind should be, "The arrow goes to the......team." You would have to remember this no differently if you had a rubber band. If you forget to switch the rubber band you still for get right? You just have to work harder to remember something that is apart of the game. There are no shortcuts to do this. Maybe try to remember the time on the clock and other factors of an AP situation and that might help you remember better.

Peace

[Vinski]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Do not use a rubber band or any other device where you have to literally change from one part of your body to another. It looks stupid and makes you look like a rookie. Just like you remember anything else in the game, get in tune to the game and just remember. Start from the tip off and the first thought in your mind should be, "The arrow goes to the......team." You would have to remember this no differently if you had a rubber band. If you forget to switch the rubber band you still for get right? You just have to work harder to remember something that is apart of the game. There are no shortcuts to do this. Maybe try to remember the time on the clock and other factors of an AP situation and that might help you remember better.

Peace

I thought that the rubber band trick might not look too good. The "color name during the count" seemed like a good way to help remember. Thanks!

[Chess Ref]

I have started using the counting with color approch and it works for me. I also verify everytime that the arrow is moved correctly.

[Mark Padgett]

I keep a small roll of Tums in my front pocket and switch it from side to side when the arrow changes. It really comes in handy during the game when I get stomach aches from listening to coaches.

BTW - I used to use a Hickory Farms beefstick, but the female coaches were always drooling, so I stopped.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I keep a small roll of Tums in my front pocket and switch it from side to side when the arrow changes. It really comes in handy during the game when I get stomach aches from listening to coaches.

BTW - I used to use a Hickory Farms beefstick, but the female coaches were always drooling, so I stopped.

Mark, as I told you on Saturday, it wasn't drool. It was revulsion at your deformity!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Mark, as I told you on Saturday, it wasn't drool. It was revulsion at your deformity!

You're just jealous.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

BTW - I used to use a Hickory Farms beefstick,

Ah yes, the Ron Jeremy method of keeping track of the arrow.

Ron don't need no damn whistle.

[BillyMac]

When the alternating possession arrow started in 1985, the members of our local board knew that it would take some time for table crews to adjust to the new rule, so we were all asked to keep an extra whistle in our pocket to help keep track of the arrow. I personally thought that this would be a good idea until the schools got used to the new rule. Well, they're still "getting used to it". 99% of the time the crew at the table has the correct score, time, number of fouls, and bonus light on the scoreboard, yet after more than twenty-years, they only get the arrow at the table switched correctly about 90% of the time, so we're still being advised by our interpreter to keep that extra whistle in our pocket. We all do it, from our rookies to our best tournament officials. Why can't the crew at the table get this right almost all the time. Why should officials have to keep track of the arrow? We don't keep track of fouls. We trust the table crew to inform us when we're in the bonus or double bonus, or when a player fouls out. We don't keep track of time outs. We trust the table crew to inform us when a coach has used his last time out. Why is the alternating possession arrow so difficult, more than twenty years after its introduction?

[JRutledge]

The only people that seem to be having a lot of problems are people that are knew or younger students who are more concerned with answering their Blackberry rather than paying attention to the game. If you use that logic that the table is still not getting the arrow right, we might as well get rid of the scorebook because I do not see many of that being done correctly either.

Peace

[mj]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Ah yes, the Ron Jeremy method of keeping track of the arrow.

Ron don't need no damn whistle.

Or is it Jon Diebler?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by mj

Or is it Jon Diebler?

Jon Diebler has been re-incarnated as a Ron Jeremy beefstick?

[dahoopref]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Do not use a rubber band or any other device where you have to literally change from one part of your body to another. It looks stupid and makes you look like a rookie.
Peace

Well I know some of my Div I men's mentors still keep a mini-fox 40 in their pocket to keep the AP. If it makes them look "stupid", then I'd like to follow the quote of Forest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does." I think you'd be hard pressed to call these referees "rookies."

[onetime1]

So switch my wedding band from hand to hand in order to keep track of the AP? That is what I have so far from this thread.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by onetime1

So switch my wedding band from hand to hand in order to keep track of the AP? That is what I have so far from this thread.

That's allowed only if you switch the whole finger from hand to hand.

[JRutledge]

I knew there was something wrong with getting married.

Peace