referee testing ball for proper air pressure
 

#21. When the referee tests the ball for proper air pressure, the test shall be conducted on the playing court surface.

This has to be true, common sense would tell me that. The question is where can I find it in the book

Look under Rule one, below the diagram of the authenticating mark.

Geez I'm an idiot. How could I possibly miss that? Thanks.

Rule 1 is the driest of the 10 and I know that I tend to skim it. There are usually a handful of questions on the test pertaining to it, though.

And always bring a small pump and needle too....just in case!

You're kidding right? I do carry a needle, slips easily in the Fox 40 mouthpiece.

But a small pump? :eek:

You've never called volleyball, BL?

Nope, not kidding
 

I've never used the pump at a V game before. But sub-v, AAU, and rec ball......yep, used it several times. Fits neatly into my bag.

I hope it doesn't slip easily out of the mouthpiece while you're using it. That could hurt.

No, basketball is it.


Cool, I could see it being an inconvenience to bring to a varsity game.

Spare whistle, fits nice and snug.

It's no inconvenience, the pump fits right in my bag.

The inconvenience is if you can't find a good ball and no one has a needle or pump and you don't start the game on time.

Worst case scenario, it takes me a minute to jog back to the locker room get the needle or pump and make adjustments.

I have never run into a situation where *all* the balls are under-inflated. Matter of fact, in 50 varsity games last season, the ball given me (or a partner) was under-inflated exactly zero times and overinflated about 47 times. We carry a needle in our jacket pocket and I've gotten some funny looks when taking pounds of area out of a way over-inflated ball.

If, for some reason a ball is under-inflated, I tell them I need a different ball. I don't carry a pump.

A suggestion...
 

I happen to work VB and BK, and used to work FB. When you check air pressure as much as I do, it pays to spend some $$ and get a Molten Digital Air pressure gauge. It's darn expensive, but it makes the process of checking air pressure very, very easy, and it is small enough to keep in your jacket pocket.

Amazon.com: Molten Digital Air Pressure Pump and Gauge: Sports & Outdoors: Reviews, Prices & more

+1

I've always carried a needle to let air out but it's not my job to blow up balls. If I can't find a good ball from the home team, I go to the visitors. They all love to over-inflate 'em. They think it gives them a quicker bounce and are easier to dribble(and they are right). Teams have been over-inflating balls...oh...forever.

Back in the days when I did VB, I learned a rather painful lesson about having all the right gear. I was checking balls before my first ever state match and somehow (nerves combined with my incredible strength?) snapped off a needle in the valve of one of the balls. It required several extra minutes to find a janitor and borrow a pair of pliers to remove the remainder of the needle, then to pump the ball back up. After that I began carrying a small Leatherman as part of my tool kit.

Junior High game last night we ask if they have a game ball and they tell us to just pick one...at the first time out the home coach says his point guard doesn't like the ball...really? Tough crap!

Yep, tell him next time to have his point guard pick out the game ball and give it to the refs before the game.

That coach sounds like a real agitator.;)

1) Remarkable ineptness? Sheer stoopidity? Your choice....

2) For one freaking stoopid volleyball? What, they only had one ball for state championships? Get another ball and hide the damn thing and pretend you never saw it.

3) Ah! I remembered Chuck Elias telling me that he was gonna start doing volleyball too. Now I know what his job was---"Leatherman". How did you carry him? In one of them papoose thingys like new mommies carry their babies around in?

I never really thought of Chuck as a tool. M&M maybe, but not Chuck. You know him better, though.

So how the he!! did I ever get involved in a volleyball discussion?

Ohhhh....

Now it feels like the season. :)

Same way I drag Snaqs kicking and screaming into a football thread...or grune for that matter.

Because Danref doesn't hang here any more.

What? Where?

I'll take door number 1, though both probably apply. ;)

For one of the three used for a three ball rotation. I guess I could have just ditched the evidence of my remarkable ineptness. Then we'd have been down to two. Then during the match when one of the balls disappeared briefly we'd have been down to only one. Good thing the match didn't go to extra sets! (BTW, the disappearing ball turned up in a trash can sitting in a bowl with a half eaten chili cheese dog.)

No need for special hardware, he fits discreetly in my back pocket.

The Day The Music Died ...
 

That reminds me. November 6, 2010 was the fourth anniversary of ChuckElias leaving the Official Forum. How did we miss it? May he rest in peace.

It's no longer discreet if you tell it in a public forum.

I tried actually...you didn't take the bait, oh wise one that you are.

Thread in the football forum started by grune about the "hand grenade celebration". "Circus in a thread" was a great description for that one.

You're kind of creepy. Stop stalking Chuck. Let him RIP!

This thread has turned squirrely.

Nah, it would have to be much shorter.

Lucky for me I missed that thread. :D