There are some very good refs that don't verbalize around here, that I think would be even better if they did verbalize it. Seems like there are different ideas of what "two" is, sometimes, and when a kid is on his hips, fighting off a leg attack, and he hears "two", he can belly down instead of giving up back points without even knowing it......
I hadn't been to Iowa Folkstyle Nationals for 5 or 6 years, and was reminded about how cool and tough of a tourney it is. I know different tourneys will cherry pick a bracket or two that is tougher than the others, but as an example, two kids that were finalists at the Kickoff and the Tulsa Nationals,at 8u 67 lbs, took 4th and 7th at Iowa this weekend at 8u 65 lbs.
No doubt our kids made themselves better by participating, win or lose.......
