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.