Long Term Officials Development Presentation For Softball
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Softball Canada Umpires in Chief Meeting 2009
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Presentation given at the Softball Canada AGM in reference to the principle of Long Term Officials Development. Co-presented with Frances Losier.
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Softball Canada Umpires in Chief Meeting 2009
Practice What Now?Sport PsychCurrentIntro
Intro
7 Sports / 20 Years
Intro
Off the Field....
Current
“To secure the presence of intelligent, unprejudiced, courageous umpires at all contests in scheduled games has been one of our most vexatious problems confronting those in control of our national sport”
Albert G. Spalding
Current Lots of Sports, Lots of Development
$22.3 $22.3 MillionMillion
$1.09 $1.09 MillionMillion
$34.7 $34.7 MillionMillion
Current
Money Talks$160 Million in Canada
Participant?Participant?
Contractor?Contractor?
Current What is an Official?
Current Without Us, There is No Game!
Current Know Strike Zone = AL MVP
Athletes
Coaches
Officials
Administrators
The Mesa PrincipleCurrent
Sport Psych
Adapted from mcmahon and plessner (2008)
What is an Official?
Interactors
Reactors Monitors
Boxing Referee
Basketball Referee
Cricket Umpire
Football Referee
Volleyball 1st Referee
Gymnastics Judge
Tennis Line Judge
Volleyball 2nd Referee
Sport Psych
“The lack of feedback from practice explains why the
sub sample of FIFA referees took 16 years of practice and experience on average to reach the elite
level of the sport. When compared with the ‘‘10-year rule’’ within the expertise and deliberate practice literature, this is a longer ‘‘training’’ period than reported previously.”
McMahon, Helsen, Starkes and Weston (2006)
Sport Psych 10,000 Hours
Sport Psych
“Until by age 20 they were practicing – that is, purposefully and single mindedly playing their instruments with the intent to get better…”
M. Gladwell, Outliers, p. 38-39
Practicing
0 + X = 10,000
X = Hours of Practice
X ≠ Games
X ≠ War Stories
X ≠ “Experience”
Games Practice
Item Hours Item Hours
League Games 60 Clinic 8
Tournaments 48 Rules Study 20
Provincials 11 Evaluations 8
Regionals 9
Total 128 Total 36
Practice:Game Ratio10,000 Hours = 278 YearsPracticing
Practicing
Practice Plan
Goals
Coach
Feedback
What is a Practice?
Practicing What is a Practice?
What Now?
Officiating belongs to ringette
Learn as we go
Never contradict LTAD
The Way Forward
What Now?
•Form a Leadership Group in your Sport•Bring in Stakeholders•Define What “Official” Means to Your Sport•Define what “Great Official” Means in Your Sport and at the levels of your sport•Lay out the skills of an official•Define when they should be acquired•Ready, Aim, Fire•Fire, Fire, Fire
What Now?
Stakeholders
What Now?
Expertise
What Now?
The Ringette LTOD Workgroup
•1 Senior Official/Member of Officiating Development Committee•1 Local Officiating Administrator•1 Local Association Administrator •1 Head Coach – National Ringette League•2 Ringette Athletes•LTAD Expert Guide
What Now?
The Ringette LTOD Process
FUNdamentals
Learning to Train
Training to Train
Training to Compete
Training to Win
Athletic Skills
Training Requirements
Resource Requirements
Recovery Requirements
What Now?
Skill Acquisition
What Now?
The Ringette LTOD Process
What Now?
What If?
...we started our officiating development system from scratch? Would it look like
what we have now?
What Now?
What If?
...coaches took responsibility for the health
and welfare of all the children in the game?
What Now?
What If?
...umpires/referees and coaches could tell each
other what they saw during a game or performance?
What Now?
What If?
...we stopped losing 1/2 of our new officials every year?
What Now?
What If?
...our athletes had the benefit of world class
officiating from day one?
What Now?
What If?
...We actually left enough time at the end for
questions and discussion?!
Selected ReferencesSelected ReferencesAnshel, M. H. (1995). Development of a rating scale for determining competence in basketball referees: Implications for sport psychology. Sport Psychologist, 9(1), 4-28.
Balyi, I., Cardinal, C., Higgs, C., Norris, S. & Way, R. (2005). Long-term athlete development - Canadian Sport for life. Retrieved March 10, 2009, 2009, from
http://www.ltad.ca/Groups/LTAD%20Downloads/English/LTAD_Resource_Paper.pdf
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. New York: Little, Brown and Co.
Helsen, W. F., Starkes, J. L., & Hodges, N. J. (1998). Team sports and the theory of deliberate practice. / les sports dequipe et la theorie de la pratique choisie. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 20(1), 12-34.
MacMahon, C., & Plessner, H. (2008). The sport official in research and practice. In D. Farrow, J. Baker & C.
MacMahon (Eds.), Developing sports expertise: Researchers and coaches put theory into practice (pp. 172-192). New York: Routledge.
MacMahon, C., Helsen, W. F., Starkes, J. L., & Weston, M. (2007). Decision-making skills and deliberate practice in elite association football referees. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25(1), 65-78.
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