15th REFEREE.PL camp is already behind us, now have a great season!!!!
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Our campers were welcomed in Radom with a great, sunny weather while starting the intense agenda for this year’s REFEREE.PL being already 15th edition in a row. The team of excellent instructors kicked off the long 5 days working and training camp with lectures, at the beginning the whole group had one common aim - TO IMPROVE.
15th edition of the REFEREE.PL camp – closing the instructor list with Kuba Zamojski
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This is already 15th consecutive edition of the camp... It is incredible, this many years every year Kuba finds a tournament, best class group of instructors from Euroleague, FIBA and NBA, people that would help him and the most important, always many young, talented referees to come to the camp.
Igor Dragojevic – strong Balkan Euroleague experience for the first time at the camp
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We would like to welcome for the first time in Radom, Igor Dragojevic from Montenegro, who is top European FIBA and Euroleague referee.
Igor became a referee in 1992 when he obtained his license in former Yugoslavia, 3 years later he was already in first Yugoslavian league. Igor passed FIBA clinic I 2007 and became international referee and 4 years later join Euroleague group of referees. Igor has in his track record Eurobasket Men and Women and Eurochallenge Finals, as well as many finals in FIBA youth competition, finals in ABA league, BIBL Balkan League and more than 50 finals in National Championships and National Cup.
Jose Carrion - Top of the world class active referee at REFEREE.PL again
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It is going to be the third time for our camp to host Jose in person. Twice before in Radom and in Cluj he has stolen all referee’s hearts with his direct approach, practicality and amazing contact with the audience. Nothing surprising as Jose Carrion has a diploma in Education and 20 years plus of experience in teaching, both in Puerto Rico and US. On top of that Jose is one of the best officials in the World, with his impressive track record and achievements. We are very happy that this year again he will be with us and helping to develop and prepare your body and mind for the coming season. When in Radom take a moment to talk to him, about your goals, about what you need to learn and where to develop to achieve your dream nominations.
Milan Brziak at REFEREE.pl in Radom – straight from Slovakia
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The international referee from Slovakia – Milan Brziak, will come to the camp for the fourth time, and for the third time as an instructor, as at the very beginning 15 years ago, he was with us as a participant. Milan has a lot of experience from FIBA and Euroleague, so will work with you specially to help you in the game assessment, video situations and instant feedback.
Polish FIBA referee for the third time as instructor in Radom - Michał Proc
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For the third time welcome to the REFEREE.PL Instructors team for Michał Proc from Poland. Michał is a young FIBA referee, third season in the international games. He started to play basketball in the age of 10 and officiated his first game at the basketball preseason preparation camp for his team 2 years later. He comes from Warsaw and as an interesting fact, he also officiates Polish Championship in the arm wrestling ☺
Marcin Kowalski – Euroleague referee joining Instructors team
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Very warm welcome to the instructors team for Marcin Kowalski. This is the third time that Marcin is with us after the camp in Krakow and Radom last year. Marcin is an active FIBA referee. He is also officiating Euroleague and EURO CUP games. Marcin got his refree licence 28 years ago. He has great international experience of many Eurobaskets and Championships, that he will be very happy to share with you. See you soon in Radom!
Sasa Pukl – one of the best active referees in Europe at the camp in Radom
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The instructors team this year again will be happy to have Sasa Pukl – who is one of the top active referees in Europe, with extensive background in officiating, and great track record as a referee’s teacher.
This year will be already 7th time that Sasa is joining us at REFEREE.PL, when I asked him about it he said: “7th time already? What makes me keep coming is mostly hanging with young referees, assisting and helping them. I always like to share my knowledge and experience with younger colleagues. The second is learning. This is one of the best way to learn in a different way. Even as an instructor I least from other lectures, from discussions that we have in Kuba’s camp. I love coming back!!” And we definitely love to have Sasa with us, as you can always count on Sasa’s extensive experience and great sense of humor and strong will to share the knowledge with others.
Luigi Lamonica first time as instructor at REFEREE.PL camp!!
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I feel like I don’t need to introduce Luigi Lamonica to you, as every aspiring referee would know who he is, for sure each of you have seen his Euroleague games, European or World Championship or Olympic games officiated, live and in TV. Even maybe some of you read his book “Decidere” published few years ago. Still I have a great pleasure of writing few words toward presenting Luigi as our instructor at the camp, and we are extremely happy, that he joined our team for the camp in Radom.
Grzegorz Ziemblicki – FIBA Instructor joining tutors team at REFEREE.PL
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We are very happy to let you know, that Grzegorz Ziemblicki will be joining our instructors team to work with you at the REFEREE.PL 2018 camp in Radom.
Grzegorz passed FIBA clinic in 1995 and became international referee. During his long career he executed many finals (Ronchetti Cup, Saporta Cup to name some), also many times at Eurobasket Men and Women, World Championship and Olympic Games in Sydney. We could also see Grzegorz on the Euroleague games for past 20 years. Since 2015 Grzegorz is working as an FIBA Instructor and National Instructor in Poland.
Todd Warnick – Euroleague referee coach joining instructors team in Radom!!
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It is high time to start announcing the instructors for this year’s camp. With a great pleasure at first, we would like to introduce former Euroleague and FIBA referee – Todd Warnick.
Todd started his official referee career in USA in 1973, where for 5 years he was attending college and officiating semi-professional league. In 1979 he moved to Jerusalem and was working as referee for 25 years in Israel’s premier league and 20 years in FIBA including 2000 - 2003 in Euroleague. After finishing his career on the court, Todd became a referee instructor and coach. Between 2007 - 2017 Todd joined as instructor in more than 20 FIBA tournaments, adding clinics and camps, video observations, individual coaching and mentoring. He is also Certified FIBA instructor (FRIP) and since 2016 working in Euroleague/Eurocup as referee coach.
Second summer survival camp session done with referee.pl
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It is truly becoming a tradition that Kuba prepares a very tight agenda for his camps. In this manner Survival Camp is indifferent. The aim is not to exhaust the camp participants, but to maximize the time and resources investment towards the goal of being prepared for the next season and each personal goal that people bring to such a special event. Let’s have a closer look on how was it this year.
VTB league supporting the Survival Camp – Thank you!
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We would like to send a special thank you to VTB league for supporting the Survival Referee.pl Camp this year. VTB league provided referee shirts, that campers were using with pleasure, as on the attached picture. We are wishing that in the future some of the campers will be officiating in VTB league as well 😊
RIND – sponsor of the survival camp sportswear
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This year for the Survival Referee.pl Camp we cooperated with the company RIND, who sponsored great quality t-shirts for the training and caps. Thanks to RIND the group was practicing in a new, innovative sport wear, produced with advanced technologies. RIND delivers a sports clothing for many different disciplines (basketball, volleyball, ice hockey, motocross, bowling, dancewear, rowing). They are also supporting basketball refereeing with high class wears. The equipment can be ordered on their page from the available collecting, and can be individually tailored for the order needs.
Check the website of the RIND here: http://rind.lt/
Survival Referee Camp 2018 time start – meet the campers
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Summer is here, season break, school break and so doesn’t it mean we shall have a break from refereeing? Maybe in a sense yes, because we need to rest the body and mind, get the energy, reevaluate our goals, check where we are and where we want to be. All in all, we need to get ready for the next season, this means we need to do some work ourselves, but also to make progress we need help of qualified instructors and colleagues, who will boost our preparation phase with additional challenges. Here is why in summer it is good to attend the camps. Many people are joining summer camps from different reasons. As the Survival Referee Camp 2018 in Poland is about to start on Monday, we have asked the participants to tell us little bit about themselves and share with us on how they see the camp fits into their preparation program for the next season.
REFEREE.PL CAMP 2018 - Invitation
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Dear Friends,
We are excited to announce the 15th year edition of REFEREE.PL camp for basketball officials.
This year again we would like to invite you to Poland, and for the third time to Radom, which is located in the greatest region of Masovia, close to Warsaw and have long basketball traditions.
Memories refresher – Campers of Referee Survival Camp 2017
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31.05.2018
We would like to come back to our campers from the first edition. We went to check on how are they doing and how was their season. You can see below in follow up on how the survival training camp in Poland contributed to the last year’s season performance for the two of our campers: Asimina and Hande.
Referee Survival Camp - what is this about?
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After last year’s successful first deployment of the new idea of the camp we were sure to repeat the format this year again. The registration is up and running for the 2018, you can find it here APPLICATION FORM.
For those of you who are hearing about it for the first time we would like to explain the idea behind the new format. This camp is to help referees even more to improve by doing extensive preparation before the season that would combine organic activities for referees, same as for any other sport athletes.
RIND SURVIVAL CAMP 2018 - Invitation
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Jezierzyce Słupskie, Poland
2 separate sessions: 16-20 July, 23-27 July
We are very happy to invite you again to the modern way of camp - SURVIVAL CAMP, which will have 2 separate sessions this year, where we will be working on the preparation for the following season togehter with the basketball players „Get Better Camp”. The main focus of the camp will be individual work and team work on the court.
The camp will take place in Jezierzyce Słupskie, which is close to Słupsk and Polish sea side, located 120 km from the Gdansk airport. Słupsk is also accessible by train. There is 5 days of hard work waiting for you. Here are the dates:
Happy Holidays and New Year from REFEREE.PL
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To all referees, instructors, our friends and partners from all around the world we would like to wish a very Happy Holidays, to have relaxing time with your family and loved ones. Take this break to rethink your goals status, check where you are and if you are making the progress that you wanted. This is half of the season and a perfect moment to course correction and still aiming high towards the end of the season. New Year is coming and new possibilities, prepare your body and mind. Hope to see you again at the camp in 2018.
All the best,
Kuba, Marta, Paweł
Gianluca Mattioli (1967 – 2017)
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We are very sad writing this words. Referees family has just lost a dear friend. His life was finished too fast. There are so many happy moments that we can list with Gianluca in our life. His smile and always good mood is something we all will remember about him. Words are never adequate in moments like these. We will say though, that our hearts go out to you, and we will always recall the joyous memories that we are privileged to have in knowing you. RIP Gianluca Mattioli.
Day 4 SUNDAY - breath in and blow the whistle, the season is waiting for you
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Every time is the same story, four days of the camp are passing so fast, that you don’t know what were you doing. It is intense, hard, fun, sometimes difficult, but all of this is a lesson that we agree to take as a part of our learning process to get better.
Day 3 SATURDAY - how not to mess up your game
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See what you call, call what you see – Richard Stokes
The day started early with morning gym, practicing the run, calls, jump ball, and also having some fun and a team picture ☺ This class was very useful to have professional refs looking at your base skills and techniques and giving advices.
Then campers run quickly to breakfast to come back even quicker for the lecture of Richard, treating about the officiating techniques, based on the presentation, same as at Euroleague camp 2 weeks ago.
Day 2 FRIDAY - Start your season strong with the right call!!
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Prevent the tough play to become a rough play – Richard Stokes
We have started the day as usual with morning jogging at 8:15 by Marcin Kowalski, very refreshing to start the day like this, specially that the temperature is Radom is chill ☺ Some campers didn’t even stop running after 20 min and made another round. Well whatever makes you fit for the day!!
And yes we need you in your top shape as the agenda is pretty tight.
Day 1 THURSDAY - “Moonlighting” kick off - REFEREE.PL here we go!!!
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Choose your role model and try to teach someone as well, be an example for someone – JOSE CARRION
After one year, here we are again☺
This time we start the camp with the games. There are many games for our campers this time, so we take advantage of it, so for sure there will be a lot of material to work with. We are on 4 halls in Radom, divided into 2 groups and exchange the lectures with games during the whole game.
And Kuba will be our instructor at REFEREE.PL as always
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Let’s close the list of instructors for 2017 REFEREE.PL with the founder of the camp. Kuba Zamojski is there at every camp, taking care that our campers have the best support possible. As you can imagine to keep all of this together it is a lot of work. Every year he says that there will be no more camp, but we know better ☺ For the sake of the future editions we shall take care that there is no glass wall in the camp permissions and hopefully nominations will come not 5 min before the game... (campers from past years will understand) ☺ Seriously, you already know Kuba and how much he cares for the camp, so you may expect nothing but another excellent event with a group of amazing international people!!
See you all tomorrow in Radom!!!
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Pre-Camp Videos
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We are presenting set of videoclips to discuss. Only Campers who participate in our camp at RADOM can comment on each clip after Login. We kindly ask all This Year Radom Campers to comment all situations.
The clips are available after login in Radom Camp section PRE-CAMP VIDEOS.
Euroleague Officials Director at REFEREE.PL - for the first time with us Richard Stokes!!
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We are happy and proud to announce that Richard Stokes will join our instructor team at REFEREE.PL camp for the first time!
Richard is bringing the experience and know-how from the best league at the continent – Euroleague, where he works as an Officials Director for two years already. Before for ten years Richard was in FIBA Europe managing the Competition and Referee Department.
The basketball history of Richard’s starts much earlier though, as since 1985 he held referee license and became international official in 1993, and join the Euroleague list of referees in 2000.
Lahdo Sharro at REFEREE.PL as instructor - prepare yourself
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For the third consecutive time we would like to welcome Lahdo at the camp in Poland working with us as an instructor. Lahdo Sharro is a Swedish referee, one of the best in his country. He was also officiating FIBA and Euroleague games for many seasons. Which all in total gives him almost 20 years on the court now and many important international matches officiated. Some of you may know Lahdo as an organizer of big referee clinic that is taking place every year in Sodertalje. Lahdo and Kuba are friends from many years already, they made a lot of games together and Kuba is also yearly an instructor at the Scania Cup.
Milan Brziak in Radom supporting the camp as an instructor
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Milan Brziak will be the instructor for REFEREE.PL for the second consecutive time. Milan is coming from Slovakia and got his referee license in 1989, while in 1997 he obtained the international level. He has Euroleague experience as well as many FIBA tournaments on his career summary. He was also the camper of the first edition ever of the Kuba’s camp that took place in Bydgoszcz in 2004 !
FIBA force for the second time as instructor in Radom - Michał Proc
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For the second time welcome to the REFEREE.PL Instructors team for Michał Proc from Poland. Michał is a young FIBA referee. He started to play basketball in the age of 10 and officiated his first game at the basketball preseason preparation camp for his team 2 years later. He comes from Warsaw and as an interesting fact, he also officiates Polish Championship in the arm wrestling.
