Whistle Blown Out of Mouth - Never Seen It

[CDurham]

Had a first the other night in my game. I am in C and my partner in the T has an offensive foul. He turns his body the other way and blows his whistle with authority. The next thing I see is his whistle airbourne and traveling about 10 feet into the 2nd row (no lie). He doesn't use a lanyard. He pops his signal and goes to report and pulls out another "round" and sticks it in his mouth and moves on. At halftime in the locker room we had a good laugh. Maybe he will use a lanyard from now on.

[APG]

Is going sans-lanyard something he does regularly? I know when I tried going without one (in some throw away rec league games), I had the whistle hit the floor a couple of times before I got used to grabbing it.

[CDurham]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Is going sans-lanyard something he does regularly? I know when I tried going without one (in some throw away rec league games), I had the whistle hit the floor a couple of times before I got used to grabbing it.

Yes. He does it well, except for this mistake.

[Bad Zebra]

We have a couple veterans in our assn. that go lanyard-less, so of course a few rookies see it and think it's cool so they try it. The veterans claim it slows them down when they report. I call "nonsense". I've seen several "whistle missle" occurences over the years and think "why the heck would you not use one?". This is the same type of thinking that caused us to go to grey shirts instead of traditional zebra stripes.

Some people just can't resist the newest trends, regardless of how absurd they are. Sheep.

[Judtech]

IMO it needlessly draws attention to yourself. And I certainly don't buy the "A lanyard slows me down". How? You blow the whistle and let it drop out of your mouth. Seems like it would take less time then blowing the whistle, bringing my hand to my mouth, putting the whistle in said hand and then reporting. Would be nearly impossible to report "55" if they used 2 hand reporting!

[APG]

Originally Posted by Judtech

Would be nearly impossible to report "55" if they used 2 hand reporting!

You either put it in your pocket or place it snug against the waistband whilst reporting.

I personally don't see the big deal about an official going sans-lanyard. I don't see it as drawing attention to ones self...in reality, the only people who notice this stuff is officials. I still use the lanyard due to it being mandated by my assignor, but if a partner doesn't use one, I don't think anything of it.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Judtech

IMO it needlessly draws attention to yourself. And I certainly don't buy the "A lanyard slows me down". How? You blow the whistle and let it drop out of your mouth. Seems like it would take less time then blowing the whistle, bringing my hand to my mouth, putting the whistle in said hand and then reporting.

You've got it backwards.

Not using the lanyard makes you more conscious of the whistle, so you have a slower whistle. I've done it in AAU and yes, it does work.

We have several guys who don't use a whistle lanyard. I would say 99% of people in the building have no idea they don't have a lanyard.