Guys,
As you are aware that BASMAL with the help of FIBA international organized a FIBA zone ref clinic in BT over last weekend. This was the very first time in the country's history that FIBA conducted a ref clinic. Clap hands for BASMAL!!!!!!! The Clinic was run Mr Vitalis Godhe, a Kenyan national who has over 15yrs of high level ref experience including world championships, recently Olympic qualifiers in Spain. He was one of the ref in Zimbabwe when Malawi participated in the zone 6 champtionships. Participants were taken through the new and revised FIBA rules for 2008, as found here http://www.fiba.com/downloads/Rules/2008/OfficialBasketballRules2008.pdf . PLEASE DOWNLOAD THIS AND READ IT COVER TO COVER!!!!!! It was quite thrilling to see how content of that constitution was revealed to us all, really the man knew his stuff and had a lot of experience. After going through the class work, covering that 78paged doc, a practical ref session was organized. 2 teams from BT were assembled and 4 sets of refs rotated per quarter as they tried to make calls and the signals appropriate while the instructor sat quite in a corner and took notes! Then followed the gruelling fitness test. A simple 20m run in between beeps that were played on a radio. FIBA requires its male refs to run 86 laps in 10mins while females are encouraged to 66laps. This is a MUST and it was indeed a hill climb. By the end of the run, participants who finished the run covered a distance of 18000m. Finally a written test was the administered with 25 scenarios played out on paper to all participants. We then had to deduce whether what the ref called was correct of not, sounds simple it was not. For example, A3 takes a shot -2 pointer, end of period signal goes on, ball hit ring and A2 taps ball in basket, Ref calls for 2 point to team A. Correct or not? As you can see, the participants went through a thorough rigorous blending process that opened a lot of eyes. This will surely be manifested in the quality of calls that will be made and the REF WILL HAVE TO BE RUNNING AT ALL TIMES! No longer standing at the centre line and call a 3 sec violation. The tests that were administered will be sent to FIBA international who will then announce who passed and who failed. The particiapnats who will pass, will be FIBA recognized and will be handling assignements in Zone 6 i.e. Zambia Vs South Africa game! A FIBA license will also be given to the succesfull participants. The next level after this is the FIBA international Ref where Refs from this pool are the ones who handle Olympics, world championships etc. Right now, we are waiting to hear from FIBA on who were successful during the clinic. Some of the things that our league needs to change are as follow! -Introduction of Ref allowance after each game -All teams to have uniforms with numbers from 4 to 15 -MANDATORY -Referees commission -Timeliness in times of fixtures -More games... On behalf of MAbvuto Chimtengo, Lonjezo Maliro and my own behalf, thank you guys for giving us the chance to represent you. WE will surely try hard to empower the rest of you on the new changes that this game has seen. N/B. Anyone interested in doing the fitness, please let me know I can organize it for you. Good evening Sule. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://soyapi.com/owinna/cezobal2008 =================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central Zone Basketball League" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cezobal?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
