EMW 2009 Arena

Last smacznego…
Our morning starts very quiet at 7:00 whit body check. Everybody liked the results, because we have lost fat and have gained more muscle mass and of course rise HERO ranking.

After that we went to the gym for morning exercises and training. This session was a little bit different because we more analised situation whit better possition in the court.

Then after breakfast we met in the lecture room. There we started last presentations and watched clips. It was amazing atmosphere because it was hard discussion about clips. When emotions calmed down we finished lecture and listened intresting presentation from Veronika about fiba referee life.

In the gym we had our last game and last workout. Everybody was tired but still worked hard. In the game we were best version of ourselves, because we had a lot of feedback from our instructors and colleagues which we used and it was very helpful.

When last whistle rang we realized that thats it and we could see in everybody eyes that nobody wanted to leave… but after long good byes everybody left. I hope that we will meet again in the future. I want to say thanks to Kuba, Marcin, Bruno, Filip, Michal, Kuba junior, Paulina, Marc, Alex, Valentin and Veronika.

Good luck everyone!!!
Laimonas

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Last smacznego…
Our morning starts very quiet at 7:00 whit body check. Everybody liked the results, because we have lost fat and have gained more muscle mass and of course rise HERO ranking.

After that we went to the gym for morning exercises and training. This session was a little bit different because we more analised situation whit better possition in the court.

Then after breakfast we met in the lecture room. There we started last presentations and watched clips. It was amazing atmosphere because it was hard discussion about clips. When emotions calmed down we finished lecture and listened intresting presentation from Veronika about fiba referee life.

In the gym we had our last game and last workout. Everybody was tired but still worked hard. In the game we were best version of ourselves, because we had a lot of feedback from our instructors and colleagues which we used and it was very helpful.

When last whistle rang we realized that thats it and we could see in everybody eyes that nobody wanted to leave… but after long good byes everybody left. I hope that we will meet again in the future. I want to say thanks to Kuba, Marcin, Bruno, Filip, Michal, Kuba junior, Paulina, Marc, Alex, Valentin and Veronika.

Good luck everyone!!!
Laimonas

#tiguar #wybieramtiguara #polecamtiguara

Last smacznego…
Our morning starts very quiet at 7:00 whit body check. Everybody liked the results, because we have lost fat and have gained more muscle mass and of course rise HERO ranking.

After that we went to the gym for morning exercises and training. This session was a little bit different because we more analised situation whit better possition in the court.

Then after breakfast we met in the lecture room. There we started last presentations and watched clips. It was amazing atmosphere because it was hard discussion about clips. When emotions calmed down we finished lecture and listened intresting presentation from Veronika about fiba referee life.

In the gym we had our last game and last workout. Everybody was tired but still worked hard. In the game we were best version of ourselves, because we had a lot of feedback from our instructors and colleagues which we used and it was very helpful.

When last whistle rang we realized that thats it and we could see in everybody eyes that nobody wanted to leave… but after long good byes everybody left. I hope that we will meet again in the future. I want to say thanks to Kuba, Marcin, Bruno, Filip, Michal, Kuba junior, Paulina, Marc, Alex, Valentin and Veronika.

Good luck everyone!!!
Laimonas

#tiguar #wybieramtiguara #polecamtiguara

Thursday was our day number four which we started as always with morning exercises. With half closed eyes we went to the court and started the warm up while which we were already feeling all our muscles, but we also ran a yoyo test. Happy that we survived the first workout we had our usual team shout “smacznego!” and went for a breakfast.

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At 10.15 we started our presentations which took longer than planned because I was talking too much 😉 We had a really good conversation about 8 seconds violation, while which everyone learned something new. After that we also had a presentation about 3 seconds violation and goaltending & interference. At the end of the session we had a great lecture about
unsportsmanlike foul prepared by Marcin. Super hungry we went for lunch and enjoyed little break before afternoon torture.

At 3.20pm we had our pre-game. Then we got split into two groups. First group had workout in the gym with our trainer who said “I like hard work, I like watching it”. I don’t think any more
comment is needed. You can just imagine that like every other workout with him, it was fun. Second group went to referee junior games, then we switched.

At the end we all had a chance to referee games played by extra league and first division players. We used glasses with cameras recording what we watch during the game. The
cameras are absolutely awesome! After watching such a record we can analyse very well what we should observe, who has the best view for the action and finally which decision should be made.

We were working very hard, and did a good job, but also some little mistakes happened.
Concentration was going down in some moments. I don’t know if it was because of being tired or because we were already dreaming about an evening sauna.
Oh, the sauna after such physically tiring days was absolutely great, but unfortunately it wasn’t the end of the day for us yet. We watched and analysed games, cut the clips and finally went to bed.

Let’s get ready for the last day!

Paulina Chyrc

Thursday was our day number four which we started as always with morning exercises. With half closed eyes we went to the court and started the warm up while which we were already feeling all our muscles, but we also ran a yoyo test. Happy that we survived the first workout we had our usual team shout “smacznego!” and went for a breakfast.

#tiguar #wybieramtiguara #polecamtiguara

At 10.15 we started our presentations which took longer than planned because I was talking too much 😉 We had a really good conversation about 8 seconds violation, while which everyone learned something new. After that we also had a presentation about 3 seconds violation and goaltending & interference. At the end of the session we had a great lecture about
unsportsmanlike foul prepared by Marcin. Super hungry we went for lunch and enjoyed little break before afternoon torture.

At 3.20pm we had our pre-game. Then we got split into two groups. First group had workout in the gym with our trainer who said “I like hard work, I like watching it”. I don’t think any more
comment is needed. You can just imagine that like every other workout with him, it was fun. Second group went to referee junior games, then we switched.

At the end we all had a chance to referee games played by extra league and first division players. We used glasses with cameras recording what we watch during the game. The
cameras are absolutely awesome! After watching such a record we can analyse very well what we should observe, who has the best view for the action and finally which decision should be made.

We were working very hard, and did a good job, but also some little mistakes happened.
Concentration was going down in some moments. I don’t know if it was because of being tired or because we were already dreaming about an evening sauna.
Oh, the sauna after such physically tiring days was absolutely great, but unfortunately it wasn’t the end of the day for us yet. We watched and analysed games, cut the clips and finally went to bed.

Let’s get ready for the last day!

Paulina Chyrc

Thursday was our day number four which we started as always with morning exercises. With half closed eyes we went to the court and started the warm up while which we were already feeling all our muscles, but we also ran a yoyo test. Happy that we survived the first workout we had our usual team shout “smacznego!” and went for a breakfast.

#tiguar #wybieramtiguara #polecamtiguara

At 10.15 we started our presentations which took longer than planned because I was talking too much 😉 We had a really good conversation about 8 seconds violation, while which everyone learned something new. After that we also had a presentation about 3 seconds violation and goaltending & interference. At the end of the session we had a great lecture about
unsportsmanlike foul prepared by Marcin. Super hungry we went for lunch and enjoyed little break before afternoon torture.

At 3.20pm we had our pre-game. Then we got split into two groups. First group had workout in the gym with our trainer who said “I like hard work, I like watching it”. I don’t think any more
comment is needed. You can just imagine that like every other workout with him, it was fun. Second group went to referee junior games, then we switched.

At the end we all had a chance to referee games played by extra league and first division players. We used glasses with cameras recording what we watch during the game. The
cameras are absolutely awesome! After watching such a record we can analyse very well what we should observe, who has the best view for the action and finally which decision should be made.

We were working very hard, and did a good job, but also some little mistakes happened.
Concentration was going down in some moments. I don’t know if it was because of being tired or because we were already dreaming about an evening sauna.
Oh, the sauna after such physically tiring days was absolutely great, but unfortunately it wasn’t the end of the day for us yet. We watched and analysed games, cut the clips and finally went to bed.

Let’s get ready for the last day!

Paulina Chyrc

The day started with loud music in our room. “I need a hero” from ABBA. It’s the kind of music to put you in a good mood from the very beginning of the day.

At 7:45, we meet on the court. We have referee practice. Which means, warm up, and then some exercises. Mechanics, whistle, counting, moving on the court, showing numbers to the table, everything is drilled. We also ran the bips test. Prerequisite to officiate in certain leagues around the world. When we were done, we went to get breakfast, and get showered.

We had another big music session in the room. This time we listened to Céline Dion, and other gems of French music. We go downstairs to our conference room, and get ready to work.
I am chosen as volunteer for washing the clothes. We have some shirts especially for the camp, and obviously since we do so many different sport sessions.
Presentation from Valentin. He is a Swiss guy, just like me. He talks about goaltending and interference. Especially useful when you officiate the top league players, that can actually jump and do this. Big discussions were sparked when Kuba showed some clips of his, from Euroleague.

 We get a 2nd presentation from Michal. Travel violation. It’s a basic rule, it makes up a lot of the spirit of basketball. But once you go into the details, you see that it can be quite tricky. Especially for us referees, we have to take many different things into account.

11:30: For once we get a break ! We decided to go into the mining factory. We walked to the mine, bought our tickets, and off we go. Lucky we had some Polish referees in the crew, because we wouldn’t understand anything otherwise. The mine is very old, and the guide presenting the tour was a miner at the time.  

Pre-Game before officiating in the afternoon. We watch clips we cut yesterday evening, and we debate among ourselves. With the different points of view from the different cameras, we analyse who should call what. We go deep into mechanics. 3 People officiating is not something we use everyday, for most of us.

Games of the day. We warm up with the young players. The warm-ups are always pretty intense, but it feels good. I officiate the first game, with the kids. Doesn’t matter, they play well, and this means I can concentrate on 3PO mechanics. The crew was full Swiss, with my two teammates being Valentin and Alex. We have a pretty good game overall.

The second game went on, while our group went for the gym session. This one was particularly hard. We had a circuit of medicine ball throwing, sledge pushing and farmer walks, with little rest. Pretty intense when your legs are already tired from the last 2 days.

Then we officiated the last game of the day all together (all the referees). These guys are pros, and it shows on the court.  It’s fast, physical, and so interesting to officiate.

We ate after that, and decided to go watch some clips of the games before going to the sauna. Some of us at least. Some others went directly to the sauna and spent 2 hours there. They will have work later in the night. We joined them in the sauna at 10, 30 minutes before it closed. It was amazing. It’s such a good thing for the tired body. We still watched more clips, and then we went to bed, fearful of the Yoyo test that is coming tomorrom morning.

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