Instruction Camps

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by gojeremy

I'm a new official for 2013-14 and I'm going to some instructional camps in the next few weeks with classroom and game instruction. Can anyone give me an idea about what these camps are like?

This is perhaps the best choice you could have made to get your officiating off to a great start! Excellent choice! And be sure to return to this forum with any questions you have or observations you have to share.
And though it would be best to advise you to use the "Search" function to view all the recent, previous replies to this exact same question, let me just state these few things...others will likely chip in with their perspectives to give you. Those, along with your "search and study" of previous threads on the topic, will give you some great answers.

#1 Resist defending what you're doing which they're critiquing. Your clinicians are probably right and you probably aren't.

#2 Find like-minded campers who are there to learn and form some networking bonds that can last beyond the days you are at camp (I still keep in touch with officials I first met my first year at a camp years and years ago).

#3 When you're done, formulate a list of what you've learned are the key things you want to keep in the front of your mind prior to each game your first season.

#4 Go to camp again next year.

PS - What area is the camp you're going to?