Little guy in audience

I heard from my friend what one little guy was thinking in audience in my game, MU20 NC Norway-Sweden. He didn't know why there is three referees on the court but after thinking a while he said something like this: "Oh, now I know why there is three referees ! One of them is girl and cause there is so many guys in less clothes she will look only them. There have to be more referees so they can officiate this game at all."

Good thinking ! ;) I love basketball fans !

Summer as a referee.

What happens when season ends ? Holiday ? What is that ? Players and coaches are getting ready for next season and some of them are playing through the summer with national team's. They also need us and we also need to get ready for the next season.

I will do various drills during the summer to get better shape and get better as referee. Warm-up, run, gym, stretching, those are some in my program.

Example:

Day 1.

• Warm-up 20min
• Stretching
• Intervals 3 x7min with 2min pauses
• 2min run slowly --> 40 sec fast (70-100%/max)
• Cool down 10min
• Stretching

PS.

I got some games for summer :) Women national team's  practice-game FIN-LAT and MU20 NC-game NOR-SWE. I love this game ! :)

Day 2. @ YNC 2012.

Okay, I'm alive ! First day was long but good. I officiate only one game and then I was watching much more than that. My game was okay, not even good but okay. It was clearly tournaments firs game for teams and for us referees also. We didn't have so clear line and I think there was some "be a team" things what we have to work on.

Something about this kind of tournaments:

• We have different referee group every day
• We officiate with 3person
• Referee can'n ever be in the game were is her/his own country playing

Something about teamwork with table-officiate:

• We are a team, if referee asks something it doesn't mean we are mean or don't believe you, we just want to be sure
• If you have something you want to know, ask. We can't help you if we don't know there is something wrong.
• We all; players, coaches, referees, table-officials, are humans and we do make some mistakes. That's part of the game/life and we have to deal with it.

Today is a new day and I have two games. The first one is WU18 Iceland-Sweden and the second one is WU16 Iceland-Denmark (night game..).

Maybe I have some energy to write you in an evening, if not..talk to you later !

Day 1.

Cause some of my colleagues here said I should write in english I will do that. It's not easy for me but I think it will be a good help for me and for my future :)

We had only dinner together with referees today and tomorrow we start our games. I have MU16 Norway-Sweden @ 15:00 with Ronnie (from Denmark) and Orri (from Island) ! It's gonna be great :) I let you know how was it. Hopefully I can get some pictures also.

Koulutusta

Mä lähden huomenna nuorten PM-kisoihin viheltämään ! Paikalla (Tukholmassa) myös FIBA-tuomareita ja -kouluttajia, tulee huippu viikko. Pistän tunnelmia tänne kun päästään itse asiaan :)

Running

Kai tätä kautta voi näinkin jatkaa, tänään tuli juostua elämäni toista kertaa puolikas maraton Helsinki City Run 2012 ! Oli se kyllä taas hienoo :) Jos ens kauden aikana kerkeis treenaamaan juoksemista vielä vähän enemmän niin vois huudella aikojakin ! On toi juokseminen kyllä tärkeää tuomarille. Ei ehkä noin suurissa määrin, mutta pitkä lenkki kerran viikossa ois ihanteellinen tapa treenata salin ja koripallon lisäks.

Jos joku ajattelee, että vaan pelaajat on ne joiden pitää treenata ja pitää kuntoa yllä ni pyh :)

Sääntöjä, tulkinnat toiste.

Koripallon viralliset pelisäännöt 2010 tosta jokaiselle itseään koripalloihmiseksi tituleeraavaksi henkilölle iltaluettavaa. Jos jollakin on sääntökysymyksiä niin pistäkääs tulemaan ! :)