Our league's awards banquet was this past Saturday. My fellow officials voted me "Most Improved Zebra". :)
Gearin' up for All 8 this upcoming weekend; I'm very excited.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
this is me with a happy face. :)
the officiating rosters for All 8 on the Floor have been put up. I'm rostered for four games - reffing two (OPR and JR) and NSOing two (lineup tracking and penalty tracker). I've never lineup tracked before, so I should probably read up on that.
Very excited!
Very excited!
Friday, July 10, 2015
it's been quiet, this is true
our league's season is winding down - all that's left is our A team going to Akron (I won't be going; a friend of the family died and that's when her memorial mass is) and the All 8 on the Floor tournament at the beginning of August.
we did have scrimmage last night, though (on the 7th anniversary of my first derby practice; yay!). I jam reffed the first half and front IPRed the second.
IPRing is hard. I feel like I'm supposed to juggle three balls but I can only handle two at a single time. I get so wound up about "you're gonna have to watch the bridging and the racers and letting people know when they're out of play" that I forget - oh yeah, you have to also watch for other skaters committing penalties! Gaaah! I also need to be louder with my calls (yeah, me, needing to be louder - first time I think that's ever been said before). It's because I'm not sure of them. I need to rely less on the lines on the floor and more on watching the bodies of the actual people.
Anyway, I just get kinda nervous when it comes to scrimmage night - it's supposed to be the "we're here to practice, we're here to learn and make mistakes," but I feel like the referees are expected to be on point and perfect and not miss a single thing. (This is probably mostly me projecting on myself - I tend to do that a lot.)
Fortunately my fellow zebras have been absolutely 100% supportive throughout this whole thing, and for that I am most grateful.
we did have scrimmage last night, though (on the 7th anniversary of my first derby practice; yay!). I jam reffed the first half and front IPRed the second.
IPRing is hard. I feel like I'm supposed to juggle three balls but I can only handle two at a single time. I get so wound up about "you're gonna have to watch the bridging and the racers and letting people know when they're out of play" that I forget - oh yeah, you have to also watch for other skaters committing penalties! Gaaah! I also need to be louder with my calls (yeah, me, needing to be louder - first time I think that's ever been said before). It's because I'm not sure of them. I need to rely less on the lines on the floor and more on watching the bodies of the actual people.
Anyway, I just get kinda nervous when it comes to scrimmage night - it's supposed to be the "we're here to practice, we're here to learn and make mistakes," but I feel like the referees are expected to be on point and perfect and not miss a single thing. (This is probably mostly me projecting on myself - I tend to do that a lot.)
Fortunately my fellow zebras have been absolutely 100% supportive throughout this whole thing, and for that I am most grateful.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
onward, ever onward, and twirling towards freedom
Part of the WFTDA certification process for referees is a skills assessment. It's not as long as the skating skill assessment, but it does have a speed component - 10 laps in 1 minute, 35 seconds. Unlike the 27 in 5, though, it's not a pass/fail - just a goal time.
Anyway, in anticipation of having to do the assessment, we practiced it last night.
I crossed over and plodded and heaved and gasped and I HOPE THEY DON'T ACTUALLY EXPECT US TO BE ABLE TO REFEREE EFFECTIVELY AT THIS SPEEDED through the laps.
1:35.65.
Now hopefully I can replicate that when it's actually time for the assessment!
(I still gotta work on my backwards crossovers, though. I can do them, and 75% of the time they're good, but there's still that 25% of the time where I'm CLOMP GLOMP CLOMP.)
Then there's the matter of the Hellahard (the rules test for certification). At the WFTDA clinic we were given scenarios to talk through that were of the same format as the test questions (we were told that on a scale from 1-10 in ease, the Hellahard was a 10 and these questions were a 5-6) and I pretty much aced them.
However, looking at General Hellativity's Impact Spectrum Spreadsheet, I gotta lot of work to do on that.
Anyway, in anticipation of having to do the assessment, we practiced it last night.
I crossed over and plodded and heaved and gasped and I HOPE THEY DON'T ACTUALLY EXPECT US TO BE ABLE TO REFEREE EFFECTIVELY AT THIS SPEEDED through the laps.
1:35.65.
Now hopefully I can replicate that when it's actually time for the assessment!
(I still gotta work on my backwards crossovers, though. I can do them, and 75% of the time they're good, but there's still that 25% of the time where I'm CLOMP GLOMP CLOMP.)
Then there's the matter of the Hellahard (the rules test for certification). At the WFTDA clinic we were given scenarios to talk through that were of the same format as the test questions (we were told that on a scale from 1-10 in ease, the Hellahard was a 10 and these questions were a 5-6) and I pretty much aced them.
However, looking at General Hellativity's Impact Spectrum Spreadsheet, I gotta lot of work to do on that.
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