A Reminder to All Skaters:

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March 27th, 2012 at 10:12AM

A Reminder to All Skaters:

When a referee makes a call.

We ARE NOT:

Commenting on how well/poorly you skate.
Judging intent on your actions.
Saying you do things wrong.
Saying you are wrong.
Saying you’re a bad person.
Wishing harm on you or your family.
Commenting on how well/poorly you executed whatever action.

However, we ARE:

Commenting on an observation of broken rules.

Please remember! We love you all. This is a sport that we got into as refs/NSOs/etc because we love the sport and want to see you all succeed! We are just enforcing the ruleset that is given to us to the best of our abilities.

Sometimes we do not see things. Sometimes we are not up on the latest rule clarification or nuance of the rules. Or things slip our mind as we’re watching 10 of the awesome-est athletes duke it out at a time. But we try. Oh, how we try.

Just, you know, keep that in mind.

A friendly reminder from your FYRDZ.