I would like to present to you short talk that I had with Steve Seibel after our two sessions of the camp in Antalya, that had place in Turkey this year 12-21 June this year. Steve is now back to Canada working, but he is sharing some plans of his in between his other thought.
Dear Campers,
It is more than a week after we finished this year’s camp in Turkey. As we know everybody arrived home safe. Some people stayed longer in Turkey, some of you are already officiating at summer tournaments and others went to back to work or for a change to proper vacations. I was wondering who remembers the things was talked during the camp in Antalya
Dear all, please meet our next lady referee who is joining the camp in Antalya.
SELCAN ROWLES
Selcan is an engineer from Naval Architecture, Shipbuilding and Oceanography field who works as a full time professional in London.
During the first session of the camp in Antalya we had special guest with us, who was Mr Mohammed Ali Rashid Al-Subaye. He came to Turkey together with 2 referees from Qatar, who were attending classes and were officiating games. Now since this is the first time we have Qatari referees for the camp we have asked Mr Mohammed to share with us some words about his country and refereeing.
I would like now to present a “referee CV” of a women from Poland, who attended multiple camps in Europe and her career is growing over the years quite fast – Ewa Matuszewska.
Last day of the second session arrived… Guys were very excited and went out of the frames and got creative. So instead of morning run campers went to the swimming pool to play water polo! Unfortunately there are no photos of this game as the paparazzo was sleeping 🙂
Gym, run, pool – today people divided and did different morning activities. Majority still went to run, lead by Paulina and Tomek, who used the exercise from FIBA. Day started with the sun, but later was raining; we didn’t care anyway, because the games were ongoing and in case wanted people could use the indoor pool.
Guess what was the first thing the campers did in the morning… the 7 am run of course. They even started before I came down to make the picture; the group had run away 🙂
Like in a FIBA tournament, today we had a day off. People from first session were leaving, so transfers to the airport and another session was coming. Goodbyes and hellos. Some people stayed and some came before, so all in all today was no games and people could use pools, gym or go to the city center or the other resort of the complex for the beach. With this beautiful weather this day was like real vacation.
Now, the last day of the final session arrived…
As this is already a tradition here in the morning again the entire group did a 7.15 run. As we want to take the most of last day, no one is tired, no one complains, and so in this mood we have started the first lecture of the day at 8.30 by Carl Jungebrand. All the instructors’ team came for this lecture. Mentioning that Costas had no lecture today and still he was there, because he also wants to learn. Impressive. Carl was telling us some important things. As referees we are never attacking, we hold the position, so we must defend the position. This is mental versus psychical challenge. When you walk there, nothing is going to happen that you don’t control! You need to know it! – Carl Jungebrand.
