A humble question Jeanette,
When you reffed your first tourney was it a career you were seeking, or were you just trying to help the kids have fun. Personally, I love sitting in the stands or walking in at noon(sorry I really try to skip poomsae) and having one of you see me and say can you center ring 4. I have never said no, I love it. Now that type of attitude is impossible at JO s or Nationals but my point is the attitude is not. And I suspect many have fun anyway. Not sure when the career ambition thing takes over cause I have never been up at that level. All I know is, things in this room are very stiff. I am not trying to change that. All I ever try to do is promote thought.
Also, I came over to see if Kimmiljung, Larry Cain, Ken MnN, Kim Sol, John Holloway and Master Dring and anyone else can come over to Grant s house(OE Players) and play. I know most of these guys and I don t see eye to eye but their input was always respected in the past and let me share something else. It made the referees people the athletes could hear and they all brought their years of TKD experience to the floor.
I know I learned from them. And Ken made a career out of break ummmm out of pointing things out to me. OE is not the National Enquirer of TKD. OE is fast becoming the CNN of TKD. Here and abroad. And Jeanette you can come too. There are too many issues happening simultaneously for you guys and girls to remain silent. I can t promise it will be gentle but I can say this. If Scorekeeper can sucessfully center OE all these years, he could center a match between N and S Korea in the middle of the DMZ. See I made you smile.....Have a good day
Nobody gets beat on more than me over there and alot of it is "infantile" but here is why I say. Because in order to pound on me they have to read and guess what, information, by osmosis gets through. And the way I look at it, most of the people who do attack leave themselves wide open. At this critical time however it does annoy me. And the reasons is, starting a JOH thread detracts from the real issues that need to be aired and discussed. If I had my druthers I would rather discuss why JOH is an idiot at the slow dull times.
Anyway, everyone in my house takes their shoes off upon entry. I get annoyed when they don t. So when i am here I will be serious....well I won t attack anyway. Serious all the time might be a bit much. I have to inject a little humor from time to time lest we all take ourselves too seriously.
Anyway, let Dave know your feelings individually. He can put TRUE, the group down but he can t put individual members down. So come at him as USAT members. IMHO that is as it should be anyway. Members first referees second.