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[fairyinfishnets]

A player really upset me tonight. I know it's dumb and ultimately she was in the wrong rule wise, but I don't like having it implied that I'm being unjust or picking on a particular player. fortunately it doesn't happen often. Not that I deserve an inordinate amount of respect, but it bothers me when players think that they're above the rules

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[jazzometer]

Yeah -- some players are seldom wrong, apparently -- I called one, a veteran, on hands last week, because she fell into somebody with her hands flailing about. She yelled back "I'm falling!" (and it seems every time I call her on something, there's always some sort of glare and/or reason)-- players who don't understand the rules, and then assume they do understand the rules better than the refs, still gets to me from time to time. Fortunately, I think a lot of that is a hold over from the earlier phase of the league, and that it's slowly settling into something more professional. And like you said -- it doesn't happen very often, 'cause most of the ladies are awesome . . .

The only thing to do is keep trying to make sure everybody understands that you call this shit to help them improve their game, as opposed to tell them that they suck. Oh, and make sure you have the rules down s.o.l.i.d.

~j.z.

[fairyinfishnets]

yeah, this involved a missing mouthgaurd. a big nono. I def feel better today about the whole thing though. last night I felt like I should have told her "yes i hate you and want you to fail. but I want you to fail with perfect teeth. Now get in the penalty pool for the next three days. No food or water."

We missed you though, how's the mini getaway?

[smashyaface]

well, at least she didnt put you in a headlock....*looks around, innocently* cuz i mean, who even DOES THAT???

[fairyinfishnets]

at least you see the humor, and arn't like "i put Ms. Handle in a chokehold every scrimmage and never get called". Although that would have been funny. violence = humor.

[smashyaface]

well, it WAS pretty rad that i only got called that ONE time for it. thanks for making me n example for the rest of the girls.

[asavas]

I yell stuff a lot, not because I think that what I am doing is okay and that I shouldn't get a penalty but because a) I want the refs and other skaters to know that I'm not doing on purpose, and b) I am trying to be funny. I don't ever do it to be argumentative but I have to say, the people who DO argue are the same people who can't let anything go, ever. I know one skater last night who was actually crying (just a little) because two other girls were really fucking with her on the rink her after she fouled them, both obviously accidentally. I mean, they should just calm down...it's a contact sport and there are bound to be fouls and they are bound to come from EVERYONE. So suck it up and deal. Stop trying to blame your accidents (or not accidents) on refs.

[fightscrime]

I yell stuff, too, for similar reasons, and sometimes because I just like yelling. Also, sometimes the refs are wrong, and maybe yelling during scrimmage isn't the best way to communicate, "You know, I'm really not sure that that block involved my forearms" or whatever, but I still hold that makes more sense to get that stuff out of the way at scrimmages than during a bout.

Re: the mouthguard. No one should have been rude to you, and if I happen to speak to any players who might've had this issue, maybe I'll try to mention that you are just doing your job. However, as a league we've been pretty fast and loose with mouthguards up 'til now at practice. Most skaters wear them anyway, but not everybody habitually does. I didn't know that you couldn't skate without one, and I'm pretty involved with day to day league stuff.

[fairyinfishnets]

Justice told me that I made the right call, and he's pretty much my boss. I guess we're just trying to crack down on it now. I haven't read the rules for this year yet. But mouthgaurds make sense to me, I wore one when I was practicing before the end of last season and I'm not sorry that I did. Don't worry about saying anything to her. It's really no big deal, i think my adrenalin was just up last night, so I felt more bothered by the exchange then I am in retrospect.

I understand that people don't like getting fouls called on them, justified or not. but the refs are human and it just gets frustrating when we've dedicated our time, energy and money into the league, and players, not necessarily last night per say, act like they're doing us a favor.

But all in all, if that's my biggest complaint, I'm a lucky little Crafta.

[fullmetalpussy]

Huh, I always thought mouth guards are mandatory. Maybe it's just my paranoia, as I haven't seen a dentist in years, but the mouth guard seems pretty crucial, especially after the face plant Flo demonstrated recently.

I'm glad to get called out because it helps me break bad habits like elbows/hands/forearms/cutting track. I'm sure the list goes on. Seriously entrenched habits from the days when wrestling was an integral part of practice and when Philly coaches told us to elbow people in the chest. I'm sorry y'all get flak, I mean, even if it's an erroneous call, y'all are out there doing a fairly thankless job and it's boggling that any one would give you crap over it. So thanks.