My officials won't blow their whistle

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Originally Posted by SanSmoothie

Any advice on how to encourage my youth basketball officials to blow their whistles? I have a few that are a little bit gun shy.

Most new officials have this problem due to the fact that they cant seem to tell what a foul may or may not be. The best thing to do is get them in a scrimmage and have an official run with them and tell them to blow the whistle. Once they get use to the contact, then they will be sort of comfortable. This is what was done for me when I got started. Have then just concentrate on blowing the whistle and nothing else. Just my 2 cents worth.