The Collins Hill Preseason Tournament was a training event for the Team Georgia Wrestling Officials Association. There were several points of confusion that I noticed, and want to clear up.
Headgear is mandatory at Team Georgia Folkstyle tournaments.
You can not alter your headgear with tape, but you can tape your fingers, or shoe laces.
There is a fifteen minute rest time between matches.
If you choose to wrestle two brackets, you waive your fifteen minute rest time moving from bracket to bracket.
Figure four to the head, body, and around two legs is illegal.
T-shirts, and underarmour shirts are special equipment. When the head official asks if anyone has special equipment, you need to have it approved.
You get what you give. If you give respect to officials/coaches, you get it back. There is no reason that we can not all treat each other with respect.
No matter how hard you try to be in position, you can not see everything. Sometimes you can not believe what you see, but you have to keep moving forward and make the appropriate call.
It is nice to have extra officials to discuss calls with, and answer questions for coaches, and wrestlers, but that luxury is rare.
Teaching is a great way to learn.
Two best questions of the day.
A young wrestler asked me something about batteries. I don't know what it was, but but I thought it was interesting.
Ronnie Milhof asked, If you are about to get an escape during the ultimate tie breaker, and as you limp your foot out, your shoe comes off, what happens.
My answer was, I would give one point for an escape, and the match would end. The argument could be made that the defensive wrestler would loose a point for being improperly equipped, but I compared it to loosing a headgear. You would keep wrestling to a stopping point.
If you have rules questions, shoot me an email, I will do everything I can to get you the correct answer.
Good luck everyone, it's time to wrestle.
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it would be a stupid argument about the shoe coming off.
ReplyDelete"You get what you give. If you give respect to officials/coaches, you get it back. There is no reason that we can not all treat each other with respect."
ReplyDeleteNo. You are incorrect. It should not matter how you are treated. There should be no conditions for treating people with respect. You should treat every one the same. As an official, you should conduct yourself in a professional manner no matter what you get from wrestlers, coaches, or fans. YOU MUST BE IMPARTIAL. Too many times egos get in the way of making the right call. This is the problem with Georgia officiating. Nobody is there to see you guys, so just do your job and stay out of the way.
I think you missed my point, or maybe you feel I have treated you differently, than I treat everyone else.
ReplyDeleteMy point was, If officials treat coaches with respect, (most officials try to do the best job they possibly can so that there are no requested time outs, or conferences)and coaches treat officials with respect, then we could have better events. It seems as if you thought I was using this as a one way statement. It definitely is directed both ways.
It is a sad state of society when someone feels as if saying "There should be no conditions for treating people with respect." is a way we should behave. In my opinion it is not ok to treat people with a lack of respect because they are doing a job. I guess that is where my philosophy on life and yours split.