The Teaching of Umpires

[nzumpire]

I sympathise with you chess ref.

However as one responsible for the training of new umpires I can offer you the same piece of advise I offer those who choose to follow others into umpiring.

Spend your time initially understanding Rule 1 - the definitions.

As you initially become familiar with the definitions so the more complex rules will begin to make better sense.

We train umpires with the use of a case-book primarily to teach the INTENT of the rule.

This together with the definition of the rule makes the understanding far more easily digested and much more likely to understand.