EMW 2008 Hotel

Last month for the first time ever Referee.pl togehter with UFFO, as a partner, organized survival camp with totally new form of execution. This event had place in Jezierzyce, close to Slupsk, in Poland and was called UFFO Survival Camp 2017. Now two weeks passed and we were interested how our campers feel and what do they think about the camp from the time perspective, since it was physically heavy and completely new with many elements.

We would like to share with you some of the thoughts:

“I think this was one of the best camps I have ever attended and I have been in many of them around Europe. I really liked that we were challenged physically and we got pushed to improve our fitness. From a refereeing perspective, the three points below have made it a great camp that helped me improve massively:
1. The use of cameras and glasses
2. Refereeing professional players
3. Having almost a one to one feedback session with Kuba and Piotr
All the above have helped me so much to spot a lot of areas that I needed to improve and the observers have worked with me day after day to make changes and get better and I felt that by the last day there has been a big improvement and felt more confident officiating top players.” – Asimina

“Things I like:
1- How busy the schedule was
2- The variety of things we’ve done; like yoga, sauna, bike trail, rule exam, video analysis etc..
3- Glasses(Cameras)
4-Warm-up/ Practice with the Players (made me feel like a player all over again 🙂
5- How patient Kuba & Piotr were with our every single question (I guess being a small group also helped)
6- Fantastic help from Polish colleagues re. Transportation and even accomodation
7- Friendly & helpful staff

Overall, I’m very pleased with both mental and physical work we’ve done. If it helps me to achieve my goals, only time will show. I would definitely consider coming back but I’d prefer camp to be a bit longer (like 10 days). Working as a small group has a huge advantage so no, I wouldnt recommend it to any other :)) because I want us to remain small 😉 “ – Hande

“I liked that food, sleeping, lectures and games were in one complex of facilities. When the agenda is tight this is a great advantage. The regeneration training was very good. Always a lot and good choice of food.

I have reached my goals. I wanted to come back to regular trainings and this was a good kick off. As well I wanted to come back to refereeing basics and I suceeded as well.

Form is fresh, interesting and entertaining. Besides the traditional forms of lectures it is great that there were practical trainings from mechanics and everyone had to prepare a individual presentation topic.” – Jan

“I liked a lot the new format of the camp. More classes is better, because you don’t have time to think about other stuff in beetwen. This is probably the main advantage. You come, they close you in the gym and for a week you do nothing else but an intense training. This is definately the best thing of this new camp. Also the direct contact with the instructors, who are also practicing and training with us. This is genial!! Survival conditions also have their advantages and I would not change anything here. We have all we need without special extravagancy.” – Bartek

We have also asked the campers if they would like to join the camp again or reccomend to friends:

I have already recommended it to 5 referees. They were all waiting for me to come back and tell them how it was and they are all very interested.

With no brainer I am going next year again, and maybe not only one week, but two!! Because one week seems to be not enought. I reccomend it widely to everyone I talked to so far, but maybe I am doing wrong, because then next year more people will want to come, hehe. joking 🙂

Last month for the first time ever Referee.pl togehter with UFFO, as a partner, organized survival camp with totally new form of execution. This event had place in Jezierzyce, close to Slupsk, in Poland and was called UFFO Survival Camp 2017. Now two weeks passed and we were interested how our campers feel and what do they think about the camp from the time perspective, since it was physically heavy and completely new with many elements.

We would like to share with you some of the thoughts:

“I think this was one of the best camps I have ever attended and I have been in many of them around Europe. I really liked that we were challenged physically and we got pushed to improve our fitness. From a refereeing perspective, the three points below have made it a great camp that helped me improve massively:
1. The use of cameras and glasses
2. Refereeing professional players
3. Having almost a one to one feedback session with Kuba and Piotr
All the above have helped me so much to spot a lot of areas that I needed to improve and the observers have worked with me day after day to make changes and get better and I felt that by the last day there has been a big improvement and felt more confident officiating top players.” – Asimina

“Things I like:
1- How busy the schedule was
2- The variety of things we’ve done; like yoga, sauna, bike trail, rule exam, video analysis etc..
3- Glasses(Cameras)
4-Warm-up/ Practice with the Players (made me feel like a player all over again 🙂
5- How patient Kuba & Piotr were with our every single question (I guess being a small group also helped)
6- Fantastic help from Polish colleagues re. Transportation and even accomodation
7- Friendly & helpful staff

Overall, I’m very pleased with both mental and physical work we’ve done. If it helps me to achieve my goals, only time will show. I would definitely consider coming back but I’d prefer camp to be a bit longer (like 10 days). Working as a small group has a huge advantage so no, I wouldnt recommend it to any other :)) because I want us to remain small 😉 “ – Hande

“I liked that food, sleeping, lectures and games were in one complex of facilities. When the agenda is tight this is a great advantage. The regeneration training was very good. Always a lot and good choice of food.

I have reached my goals. I wanted to come back to regular trainings and this was a good kick off. As well I wanted to come back to refereeing basics and I suceeded as well.

Form is fresh, interesting and entertaining. Besides the traditional forms of lectures it is great that there were practical trainings from mechanics and everyone had to prepare a individual presentation topic.” – Jan

“I liked a lot the new format of the camp. More classes is better, because you don’t have time to think about other stuff in beetwen. This is probably the main advantage. You come, they close you in the gym and for a week you do nothing else but an intense training. This is definately the best thing of this new camp. Also the direct contact with the instructors, who are also practicing and training with us. This is genial!! Survival conditions also have their advantages and I would not change anything here. We have all we need without special extravagancy.” – Bartek

We have also asked the campers if they would like to join the camp again or reccomend to friends:

I have already recommended it to 5 referees. They were all waiting for me to come back and tell them how it was and they are all very interested.

With no brainer I am going next year again, and maybe not only one week, but two!! Because one week seems to be not enought. I reccomend it widely to everyone I talked to so far, but maybe I am doing wrong, because then next year more people will want to come, hehe. joking 🙂

Last month for the first time ever Referee.pl togehter with UFFO, as a partner, organized survival camp with totally new form of execution. This event had place in Jezierzyce, close to Slupsk, in Poland and was called UFFO Survival Camp 2017. Now two weeks passed and we were interested how our campers feel and what do they think about the camp from the time perspective, since it was physically heavy and completely new with many elements.

We would like to share with you some of the thoughts:

“I think this was one of the best camps I have ever attended and I have been in many of them around Europe. I really liked that we were challenged physically and we got pushed to improve our fitness. From a refereeing perspective, the three points below have made it a great camp that helped me improve massively:
1. The use of cameras and glasses
2. Refereeing professional players
3. Having almost a one to one feedback session with Kuba and Piotr
All the above have helped me so much to spot a lot of areas that I needed to improve and the observers have worked with me day after day to make changes and get better and I felt that by the last day there has been a big improvement and felt more confident officiating top players.” – Asimina

“Things I like:
1- How busy the schedule was
2- The variety of things we’ve done; like yoga, sauna, bike trail, rule exam, video analysis etc..
3- Glasses(Cameras)
4-Warm-up/ Practice with the Players (made me feel like a player all over again 🙂
5- How patient Kuba & Piotr were with our every single question (I guess being a small group also helped)
6- Fantastic help from Polish colleagues re. Transportation and even accomodation
7- Friendly & helpful staff

Overall, I’m very pleased with both mental and physical work we’ve done. If it helps me to achieve my goals, only time will show. I would definitely consider coming back but I’d prefer camp to be a bit longer (like 10 days). Working as a small group has a huge advantage so no, I wouldnt recommend it to any other :)) because I want us to remain small 😉 “ – Hande

“I liked that food, sleeping, lectures and games were in one complex of facilities. When the agenda is tight this is a great advantage. The regeneration training was very good. Always a lot and good choice of food.

I have reached my goals. I wanted to come back to regular trainings and this was a good kick off. As well I wanted to come back to refereeing basics and I suceeded as well.

Form is fresh, interesting and entertaining. Besides the traditional forms of lectures it is great that there were practical trainings from mechanics and everyone had to prepare a individual presentation topic.” – Jan

“I liked a lot the new format of the camp. More classes is better, because you don’t have time to think about other stuff in beetwen. This is probably the main advantage. You come, they close you in the gym and for a week you do nothing else but an intense training. This is definately the best thing of this new camp. Also the direct contact with the instructors, who are also practicing and training with us. This is genial!! Survival conditions also have their advantages and I would not change anything here. We have all we need without special extravagancy.” – Bartek

We have also asked the campers if they would like to join the camp again or reccomend to friends:

I have already recommended it to 5 referees. They were all waiting for me to come back and tell them how it was and they are all very interested.

With no brainer I am going next year again, and maybe not only one week, but two!! Because one week seems to be not enought. I reccomend it widely to everyone I talked to so far, but maybe I am doing wrong, because then next year more people will want to come, hehe. joking 🙂

The fourth day was planned to rest a bit comparing to the previous days, so with the morning wake up at 7 am our survivors had a referee training on the court practicing again the transmission, rotation, signals, jump balls and so on.

Then right after breakfast all the group went on a trip to Ustka. This is a very nice city at the sea side of Baltic sea and the weather was very good this day. In Ustka team took bicycles and did 12 km ride along the sea side, and then went for a coffee (eventually an espresso first this week), waffles with cream, ice-creams and other treats. At 12:30 all were back, so at 13:00 campers could continue presenting their chosen topics and prepare together to the games.

As every day at 16 games started and referees were talking about them with instructors. What is unque for this camp is that before tha games referees and players do the warm up togehter, also running competition and free throws. Missed free throws make the warm up longer for everyone.

After the dinner there is something new, as referes togehter with players will have yoga. This yoga class was very demanding, for both groups.

This day was lighter, and also had some fun in the morning, so it was very relaxing. Nevertheless after yoga team sat togehter and watched videos from the today’s games, went to sleep maybe at midnight, because on the last day there is training at 7 am. Big respect for our hard working campers get better each minute.

So as said on the last day there is no break and early morning training contained practicing the same stuff: running, transmission, rotation, signals, whistles/calls and also how to work with, deal with coaches.

After the breakfast there were last lectures of the camp. First summary of all elements that were practiced at the camp connected with contacts and then as well those connected with mechanics and presentation.

After that last 2 referees presented their topics, then went to the gym with coaches from GetBetter. This time a lot of practice emphasizing the legs, heavier weight and so on.
This day the pre game was conducted by our campers, all togehter. Also short summary of all camp from Kuba and Piotr, nice words and thanking for this week togehter.

But this is not the end as after lunch there were still games to officiate. So only after the games campers said final Bye and went home, where the games analysis is awaiting for them.

After declaring a success from this week, for the first time having the survival camp, all the participants said they would like to come back, so Kuba is already thinking maybe next year we will do the survival camp in two editions for the two consecutive weeks.

The fourth day was planned to rest a bit comparing to the previous days, so with the morning wake up at 7 am our survivors had a referee training on the court practicing again the transmission, rotation, signals, jump balls and so on.

Then right after breakfast all the group went on a trip to Ustka. This is a very nice city at the sea side of Baltic sea and the weather was very good this day. In Ustka team took bicycles and did 12 km ride along the sea side, and then went for a coffee (eventually an espresso first this week), waffles with cream, ice-creams and other treats. At 12:30 all were back, so at 13:00 campers could continue presenting their chosen topics and prepare together to the games.

As every day at 16 games started and referees were talking about them with instructors. What is unque for this camp is that before tha games referees and players do the warm up togehter, also running competition and free throws. Missed free throws make the warm up longer for everyone.

After the dinner there is something new, as referes togehter with players will have yoga. This yoga class was very demanding, for both groups.

This day was lighter, and also had some fun in the morning, so it was very relaxing. Nevertheless after yoga team sat togehter and watched videos from the today’s games, went to sleep maybe at midnight, because on the last day there is training at 7 am. Big respect for our hard working campers get better each minute.

So as said on the last day there is no break and early morning training contained practicing the same stuff: running, transmission, rotation, signals, whistles/calls and also how to work with, deal with coaches.

After the breakfast there were last lectures of the camp. First summary of all elements that were practiced at the camp connected with contacts and then as well those connected with mechanics and presentation.

After that last 2 referees presented their topics, then went to the gym with coaches from GetBetter. This time a lot of practice emphasizing the legs, heavier weight and so on.
This day the pre game was conducted by our campers, all togehter. Also short summary of all camp from Kuba and Piotr, nice words and thanking for this week togehter.

But this is not the end as after lunch there were still games to officiate. So only after the games campers said final Bye and went home, where the games analysis is awaiting for them.

After declaring a success from this week, for the first time having the survival camp, all the participants said they would like to come back, so Kuba is already thinking maybe next year we will do the survival camp in two editions for the two consecutive weeks.

The fourth day was planned to rest a bit comparing to the previous days, so with the morning wake up at 7 am our survivors had a referee training on the court practicing again the transmission, rotation, signals, jump balls and so on.

Then right after breakfast all the group went on a trip to Ustka. This is a very nice city at the sea side of Baltic sea and the weather was very good this day. In Ustka team took bicycles and did 12 km ride along the sea side, and then went for a coffee (eventually an espresso first this week), waffles with cream, ice-creams and other treats. At 12:30 all were back, so at 13:00 campers could continue presenting their chosen topics and prepare together to the games.

As every day at 16 games started and referees were talking about them with instructors. What is unque for this camp is that before tha games referees and players do the warm up togehter, also running competition and free throws. Missed free throws make the warm up longer for everyone.

After the dinner there is something new, as referes togehter with players will have yoga. This yoga class was very demanding, for both groups.

This day was lighter, and also had some fun in the morning, so it was very relaxing. Nevertheless after yoga team sat togehter and watched videos from the today’s games, went to sleep maybe at midnight, because on the last day there is training at 7 am. Big respect for our hard working campers get better each minute.

So as said on the last day there is no break and early morning training contained practicing the same stuff: running, transmission, rotation, signals, whistles/calls and also how to work with, deal with coaches.

After the breakfast there were last lectures of the camp. First summary of all elements that were practiced at the camp connected with contacts and then as well those connected with mechanics and presentation.

After that last 2 referees presented their topics, then went to the gym with coaches from GetBetter. This time a lot of practice emphasizing the legs, heavier weight and so on.
This day the pre game was conducted by our campers, all togehter. Also short summary of all camp from Kuba and Piotr, nice words and thanking for this week togehter.

But this is not the end as after lunch there were still games to officiate. So only after the games campers said final Bye and went home, where the games analysis is awaiting for them.

After declaring a success from this week, for the first time having the survival camp, all the participants said they would like to come back, so Kuba is already thinking maybe next year we will do the survival camp in two editions for the two consecutive weeks.

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