I Can Haz Badjj?

[winterbadger]

Huzzah! Once again I have dodged the trick questions (well, most of them) and triumphed over the the screwy hypotheticals and passed the ref exam for grade 8. I got 6 questions wrong, for a score of 92%, and most of those were in the "are they asking me if you *can* or if you *should*?" department. Two I just had a total brainburp and gave identical, "equally wrong in both cases when they should have been the same" answers.

Now I just have to get in the right physical condition to run lines for 1-2 matches (I am *still* not going to volunteer to center a match, not yet) and the mental condition to be yelled at by angry players without losing it.

Comments

Re: Well done, sir!

[rockethokie.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you could start as an 8. Why don't you try centering for a youth game? The little ones don't foul each other hard and the field is smaller.

A variant of the 80/20 rule really does come into play on covering games. Sometimes it's hard to get a full crew for the upper age divisions. We don't have lots of folks ranked at Intermediate or Advanced. I'm not sure if we even have one at National. If I can move up, then those above me would be freer to cover the U-19/16/14 divisions. I don't understand just doing one or two games a season. How do you ever improve without practice?

Re: Well done, sir!

[winterbadger]

I didn't know you could start as an 8.

Gosh, yes. There's no minimum age. The initial course is longer, and the test may be different, but I'm sure you could ace it.

Upgrading to 7 requires working 100 + games (75 as center). (Guess what I'm never going to do? ;-)

Why don't you try centering for a youth game? The little ones don't foul each other hard and the field is smaller.

Lack of confidence. :-) But I suppose I may lose that some day.