“Fluiten is de belangrijkste hobby. Goed om er een punt achter te zetten.
Ik heb er 25 jaar energie ingestoken. Mijn Gezondheid laat me in de steek.
Klaar nu, voor mij in iedere geval. Ik moet er een punt achter zetten.
Ik wil iedereen bedanken voor de energie die iedereen in de arbitrage gestoken heeft.
Met heel veel plezier heb ik eraan gewerkt Ik ben aan heel veel toegekomen, en er zijn veel vragen gesteld Heel veel enthousiasme is erin ingestoken, en is erop gereageerd.
Ik kan jullie niet meer beantwoorden.
Het was heel erg veel en het heeft heel veel gebracht.
Dankbaar.. dat er een enorme community opgebouwd is met veel vriendschappen en mooie contacten, het heeft mooie sociale contacten heeft gebracht, maar ik ga iedereen heel erg missen en ik hoop dat iedereen die sociale contacten blijft versterken en mensen elkaar blijven helpen in het groeien, van elkaar, met elkaar, helpen en versterken..”
BAS
“Refereeing is the most important hobby. Good to put a end to it.
I have invested 25 years of energy into it.
My health is letting me down. Done now, at least for me.
I need to put a end to it.
I want to thank everyone for the energy that everyone has put into refereeing.
I have worked on it with great pleasure.
I have accomplished a lot, and many questions have been asked.
A lot of enthusiasm has been put into it, and responses have been given.
I can no longer answer you.
It was a lot, and it has brought a lot.
Grateful… that an enormous community has been built with many friendships and beautiful contacts, it has brought wonderful social connections, but I will miss everyone very much, and I hope everyone will continue to strengthen those social connections and help eachother grow, from eachother, with eachother, helping and strengthening…”
BAS
Everything can be prepared we always say, and we really believe that. That’s why we urge everybody to watch as many clips as you can. Not only full games , to see how your signals are looking , or if your closedown is perhaps too far away, but also clips of sequenses our collegues had to deal with. This one is really awesome, and it took me three reruns to only realise it was not the end of the period! What do you have? On the floor? Act of shooting? Offensive foul? 
As promised before we would bring you some more information about the Clinic we’ll be doing at the NXT STARS International Basketball Tournament that will take place in Weert, the Netherlands this year. We take pride in the cooperation with the local club Prismaworkx/Basket Academy Limburg and thank them for their trust and cooperation. .
We know we have to protect shooters right?? Players that are airborne are vulnerable to crappy landings and shitty injuries that might come along. But sometimes shooters are trying to trick us into believing there was a contact with the defense. So it’s a case of foul or flop, what do you guys have?
A new tournament will take place in Weert later this year. The NXT Stars International Tournament will start on May 28th and finish on May 31th. The tournament will host an U30 refereeclinic organized by Officiatingcool.nl. Headcoach of the coachingstaff will once again be famous mountaineer and refereecoach Bob Bhania, who in his illustrious career has coached countless referees to as high as FIBA referee. 
Sometimes we see refs reluctantly warming up before the games they are about to do. Two or three laps jogging and that’s it. During halftime it’s often even less. 
From time to time our head coach Bob Bhania will share some thoughts with the highly appreciated visitors of this site. See down below for todays Words of Wisdom
It’s one of the most universal laws: what goes up must come down. Just like in the clip down below, but from a referee POV, what do you think, is the call correct or would you go for a no call? 
We assume most of you have heard about Individual Officiating Techniques by now, but perhaps some have missed the official explanation by their comittee. FIBA is there to help and they have put together a handout about individual officiating techniques. Applying these techniques will most certainly help you improve your game, so why not give it a try! You might like what you see 😉 . 
Basketball is a non contact sport they say. Well, there’s a thing or two to be said about that. We as referees have to judge occuring contact and deem it influential or not. The video down below might help, and at least will trigger you in contemplating: What will I allow today and what not?