Place: Samobor
Location: Venue to be confirmed (depending on numbers)
Time: Friday 2nd October, 1.00pm - 7.00pm
Course leader: Andrew Jones, with assistance from Shane Hill
Language: English
How to apply
This course is open to all interested players, coaches, officials and umpires.
Please email a list of all interested person to philip@aussieruleseurope.com by 1st
September.
About the course leader
Andrew Jones played Australian Football until he was 17, before a knee injury required surgery. Until then, he tried out with 2 AFL clubs – the North Melbourne Kangaroos and Sydney Swans. After 12 months of rehabilitation, Andrew returned to the game and took up umpiring in the Bendigo Umpires Association, Victoria. Within 3 years he umpired his first senior Grand Final and was invited to join the AFL Umpires the same year. Serious knee injury struck again so he took a break and returned to umpiring juniors in Sydney to get fit again.
Shortly afterwards he was approached to mentor younger umpires. This lead to him to being appointed as the junior umpires coach for 2 years. During this time, he grew the group from 12 umpires to 40 young umpires while implementing the “Green Shirt Program” for new aspiring umpires.
Andrew was then approached to become an assistant umpire coach with the Sydney AFL Umpires. Dealing with all senior umpires, his duties required him to attend all senior games and individually coach the 3 appointed field umpires and provide them with constructive feedback for the purpose of development both personally and for the game. He also assisted the AFL in Sydney with game development in their school programs and attending Auskick clinics. He had the privilege to work closely with the AFL NSW/ACT State Umpiring Manager and attend regional umpiring academies working with those umpires who had chosen to pursue a career as an umpire with the AFL.
Agenda
1. Role of the Umpire - what makes a great umpire? Leadership and character.
2. Coping with the Environment - giving guidance and direction, providing a positive,
enthusiastic match environment; pre-match, during match and post match environment
3. Positioning - where to run, what to look for, getting the best position all of the time
4. Decision Making - interpreting and applying the laws of the game, keeping the game
flowing, what is a legal tackle; explaining all the major skills and free kicks
5. Effective Communication - whistle, voice & signals; how these tools make a great
umpire
6. Goal Umpires - signals, positioning, duties, working with the field umpire
7. Fitness - keeping fit to avoid fatigue and loss of concentration during a match; the key
to successful positioning during a match