Lessons

• 1. Duties, skills, and ethics
  • Referee duties during scrimmages and games
  • Referee duties (in general)
  • Required skills for referees
  • Conduct
• 2. Whistles
  • Whistles
  • Signals
  • Don’t forget
  • Bonus tip
• 3. Verbal cues and hand signals
  • The basics
  • Penalties
  • Obsolete penalty cues
  • Additional communications
  • Hand signals
  • Homework
• 4. Game concepts
  • Game types
  • In bounds, out of bounds, down, and upright
  • The pack
  • Jammers and lead jammer
  • Blocking and assisting
  • Other concepts
• 5. Safety gear, skates, and accessories
  • Mandatory Safety gear
  • Optional safety gear
  • Skates, accessories, and casts
  • Other rules and requirements
  • Penalties related to safety gear
• 6. Safety, injury, bleeding, and concussion
  • Safety
  • Injury
  • Bleeding
  • Concussion
• 7. Referees (all positions)
  • Game-related duties
  • Tips and reminders
  • Scope of officiating
• 8. Outside pack referees
  • Duties
  • Don’t forget…
  • Tips
  • Three referee coverage
  • Two referee coverage
  • One referee coverage
  • Homework
  • Skating skills
• 9. Inside pack referees
  • Front and rear IPR duties
  • Rear IPR (IPR-R) duties
  • Front IPR (IPR-F) duties
  • Tips
  • Skating skills
• 10. Jammer referees
  • Duties
  • Lead and Not Lead
  • Calling off the Jam
  • Enforcing penalties
  • Scoring
  • Working with your scorekeeper
  • Whistles
  • Tips
  • Skating skills
• 11. The head referee
  • Duties (pre- and post-game)
  • Duties (during a game)
  • Duties (league)
  • Don’t forget…
• 12. The penalty box
  • The basics
  • Jammer swaps
  • The penalty box whiteboard
  • Related penalties
• 13. Skater concerns and official reviews
  • Skater (coach, etc.) concerns
  • Official reviews
• 14. Pack formation
  • Concepts
  • Definitions
  • Homework
• 15. Basic scoring
  • Basic concepts
  • Earning passes
  • Basic scoring rules
  • Airborne passes
• 16. Advanced scoring
  • Six Ways to Score a Point
• 17. Introduction to penalties
  • Concepts
  • Definitions
• 18. Three types of penalties
  • Contact penalties
  • Game structure penalties
  • Unsporting conduct penalties
  • Hierarchy of calls
• 19. Illegal target and blocking zone penalties
  • Concepts
  • 4.1.1 - Impact to an illegal target zone
  • 4.1.2 - Impact with an illegal blocking zone
• 20. Illegal contact and multiplayer block penalties
  • Concepts
  • 4.1.3 - Other illegal contact
  • 4.1.4 - Multiplayer blocks
• 21. Illegal positioning and illegal procedure penalties
  • 4.2.1 - Illegal positioning
  • 4.2.4 - Other illegal procedures
• 22. Cutting the track and altering game flow penalties
  • 4.2.2 - Gaining position (“cutting the track”)
  • 4.2.3 - Altering the flow of the game
• 23. Unsporting conduct penalties
  • 4.3 - Unsporting Conduct
• 24. Expulsions and fouling out
  • Fouling out
  • Expulsions
  • Ejections (all types)
  • Expellable offenses
• 25. No pack situations
  • Failure to reform
  • No pack situation handling
• 26. Assists
  • Basic concepts
  • Legal and illegal assists
  • Types of assists
• 27. Clockwise play
  • General
  • Clockwise jammers
  • Clockwise pack movement
• 28. Passing the star
  • Concepts
  • Legal star pass process
  • Incomplete star passes
  • Illegal star passes
  • Impact required to issue a penalty
  • Additional rules and procedures
• 29. Junior Derby Gameplay
  • Basic concepts
  • JRDA Rules Addenda
• 30. Junior derby (gear checks)
  • Gear Checks