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Originally Posted by sweep single
LOL umpire!! 12U travel ball.
You get a wide variety of ref quality in the kid leagues.
In my daughter's school league, there was one ref who only knew hand signals, #14 and 15 on this chart:
http://www.sonic.net/drturner/WebTur...es/volley2.gif
Would use the #14 signal almost no matter what the call was. It's supposed to signal the ball is out. But he would use the signal even if the ball was tipped or if the team hit the ball 4 times. He had to be corrected by the line judges several times, because he just simply didn't know what the proper call was.
He would demand complete quiet before the serve. One of the rules of volleyball is that the server can't serve the ball until the ref gives the signal to serve (#15). This ref would not give the #15 signal until the crowd was completely quiet.
Keep in mind that in most club games, there are multiple games going on at once, so there is always a bunch of noise. But not at this school game. Because there was only one game, he would demand quiet.
He also made a couple of really bad calls. Well, allegedly. I don't know the rules well enough to know if his call was correct, but everyone sitting around me said his explanation of one call (call overturned because you're not allowed to break the wrist on a spike) was completely wrong. Not nearly as bad as allowing a run on a force out play, but still bad.