What do you see- What do you blow

[Peter Devana]

Sorry Rut,
You may not care, but many do and that is how they try to improve their position to see what they are supposed to be seeing and also improve their judgement.
BTW I did not dream this discussion up . I participated in it many times when it was led by very respected American and Canadian clinicians who thought it very important. They are the ones who thought the numbers for great officials should be somewhere between 80-90% for Seeing and the same for Calling. They realized with 2 man mechanics that's all you could expect to see most of the time and as far as judgement is concerned the 80-90% applies regardless of whether it was 2 or 3 man. Some of the people I learned this from were:
1 Dr Phil Fox -D1- IAABO clinitian;
2 Norman Van Arsdalen-D1- IAABO clinitian;
3 Fred Horgan- International FIBA clinitian; and
4 Jake O'Donnel-NBA - clinitian
I must admit I have not heard this topic discussed during clinics attended over the past few years but that is probably because at those clinics that I attended the clinitians were not directing their content towards the higher level of official. They have kept it quite basic so as not to get the more inexperienced people confused.


For those that are aspiring to the top levels I hope you found the discussion helpful if a bit philosophical. It is designed to make you think and self evaluate.
Pistol