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What makes a good marshal/judge?

DarWood

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Originally posted by manike


4) the ability to admit when they make a mistake and try to correct it.

If you've had a bad call what would you suggest to correct it?
I would have to disagree on that one, if you made a bad call then admit to it yes but dont go back on it. The worst thing you could ever do is go back on your mistake because the other team will fuk u up over it. And these were the words from the diablo guy of europe who gave us a lecture at a tournament marshalling course supplied by sparklie.

PS. sparklie if you do read this what happened to our marshalling course u said we will get in january?. Cos i payed me and my bros 25 pound fee and still no marshalling course??? Just so u know we all put our names, telephone numbers and addresses down.
 

Red_Merkin

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Jul 9, 2001
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You should have it worked out so that every player is being watched from both sides by a judge somewhere on the field.
A judge needs to move about a bit in order to see a variety of angles.

Judging competitive speedball/supair is way different than judging punter/recball. Just because you can do one dosn't mean you can do the other.
 

Thunder Bunny

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Originally posted by Red_Merkin
You should have it worked out so that every player is being watched from both sides by a judge somewhere on the field.
A judge needs to move about a bit in order to see a variety of angles.
I fully agree with this, the judges have to work as a team especially on the sup air fields. It is in possible for a judge on a tape to see both sides of a play that he is in front of. Therefore you need judges that can see the other side. Judges should not fixed to a spot they need to move so the players that are judging do not know where they are. This make cheating for play like wiping or playing-on a lot more of risk.

A judge can only call what he sees, so the have to stay alert and follow the game. A good judge should be able to read a mug and position them selves so they can see mugger as he is normally the player that is taking the biggest risk. I will have to say that it is almost impossible to for one judge to see both mugger and muggy and then ascertain who shot who first.

To be a good judge you have to give the players the benefit of the doubt, what I mean by this if you have any doubt that an infringement has taken place you should not penalise for it.

Remember players have paid money to play a paintball and enjoy them selves. A players day can be ruined by an over jealous judge.

One last thing a good judge need to communicate with the player he is checking, no judge should call a player neutral unless they are going to stop the player from carrying on as if not being checked. By leaving the player to play, judges do not have worry about other player moving on him, or stop a game from flowing. They tell player to play-on while checking, they should tell a player why they have been eliminated. This is common courtesy, a player will leave a field if the judge tells him where he was hit, or that’s he has been one for oned.

I think I have gone on long enough.
 
Dear Frount line if you were part of yorkies group then I have explained this issue to him. I very kindly hosted the event and fed and watered (kept you all in tea and coffee at my expence) you need to speack to yorkie.

I paid for unreal and mokey love plus How to take the UKPSF tourney marshal course. Yorkie should be arranging a second course for his merry men and ladies I am running a second course in april for my teams.

Any way back to reffing I belive it boils down to team work confidence and getting in there.
You will get shot, expect it pad up if it helps..................
If you make bad calls they will shoot you on purpose.

I really enjoy reffing mad I know I enjoy doing my best to see fair play is seen to be done. I try my best to rember this is a fun day some one is paying for and to treat people accordinly ie calling the sir or player although sir an shock players out of their red mist.

I lost 1/2 a stone reffing world cup and recived the now imfamous welts but I don't regret it I did my best I was really proud of my team. It was one of my best paintballing experinces. If you take that may hits reffing the adrnaline still kicks in :)

sorry serious spelling edditing needed I shouldn't post when exhusted but dam it then that means no posting at mo. appologies from a dyslesic
 

TOOLE

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you guys forgot to metion that a ref who's 6"9 and built like a brick sh*thouse aint gonna be argued with!!

i sure as hell wouldn't!!