Episode 2 is here!
@jedsybl caught up with @claesthalmann . Claes talks us through what being a player taught him as an official, everything that goes into organising the officiating clinic running alongside the wonderful @copenhagen_bowl , when he (briefly) made Jed the most hated man in Panama, and much, much more!
Click the link in our bio to listen or find us on Spotify by searching for "The Zebra Pen"
Photos (part 1) from @sportmonda_bowl_ with me playing for Allstars in the CoEd division versus @flagcougars
Fun tournament, but also busy with everything. Still Looking forward to plan 2025
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The participants at the first ever open flag football officiating clinic 🦓🏈 We were lucky to being able to set an impressive clinic up delivered by 6 @ifafmedia recognized technical officials!
Pleasure to work with you all, and hope to be able to repeat it next year at @sportmonda_bowl_
Photo by @1stdownphoto
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Supervising at @copenhagen_bowl dressed appropriate to never enter a field 😉
At least the clothes were practical, shorts ready to play a game with zebra flags, White compression sock & a warm winter officiating jacket on a rare rainy day at Copenhagen Bowl.
Thanks for the photo @1stdownphoto in the middle of my busiest weekend as tournament organizer, updating team officiating schedules, organizing officiating clinic, teaching, supervising & play a few games beside trying to talking with international friends!
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Signup to our officiating clinic delivered by IFAF recognized technical officials is now open!
Friday 22nd May will be spent in classroom sessions while Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th will see you officiate games under the watchful eyes of our team of experienced supervisors, who will give feedback on mechanics, game management, and more.
We have moved clinic back to Scandic Sydhavnen with prices from 1750 DKK (~€235) for clinic, food & 2 nights at hotel or 850 DKK for clinic without hotel (775 DKK when booking in 2025)
Link in bio
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Officiating Clinic in flag football delivered by IFAF recognized technical officials 22nd to 24th of May 2026
We will run our 3rd edition of our clinic, where we will start Friday from 10:30 with theoretical sessions at Scandic Sydhavnen (also our accomondation) and have real games to officiate Saturday & Sunday with supervisors giving feedback on mechanics, game management etc
Price is ~€235 including clinic, 2 nights in shared double room & food from lunch Friday to lunch Sunday with option to add-on single rooms, extra nights or sharing room with partner or at reduced price excluding hotel & breakfast.
It will be possible to participate in the clinic & play/coach at Copenhagen Bowl
Signup will open around November
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Some medals I collected through my officiating career and have now given to my kids to play with.
IFAF medal from supervising Euros 2017🇪🇺
DAFF medal from one of my Danish finals🇩🇰
Great Britain from the Women’s final tournament in December 2016, when they played finals outdoors! It was also my 5th officiating final in 2016 with 4 different positions.🇬🇧
Swedish medal from my 2nd Swedish final🇸🇪
Also have my Danish silver medal from 2011 & first IFAF WC medal from 2012 where I officiated Women’s bronze
The P word:
Precision 🎯: ❌
Pizza 🍕: ❌
Predictable 🔮: ✔️
@claesthalmann and @jedsybl talk through why being predictable is perhaps the strongest trait an official can have.
Next official is the only one not present at WC 2024, but Magnus Lauesgaard has had a huge impact on the tournament from a historical point of view.
Magnus is a living legend & a DAFF hall of famer for his work within officiating in DAFF and IFAF.
He was part of creating a common IFAF rulebook back in 2008, invented the officiating clinic used first time at Euros in 2015 where he also was supervising and been supervisor at World Championships in 2012, 2014 & 2016.
Currently he is part of the officiating review group who gives video reviews from eg. WC. He has been referee at the WC finals in 2008, 2010 & 2012, while latest international tournament was Euros 2017. He has been teaching officials in Austria, Denmark & Austria, all proud officiating countries.
After Euros 2017 he has officiated a few national finals & Sportmonda Bowl games, but also supervised some developing officials at Sportmonda Bowl including being an instructor at last years clinic.
Sign up still available, link in bio
Deadline April 8th.
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Officiating clinic update
We continue down field from the WC finals when announcing our third instructor, Omer Sela, who was FJ in the Men’s final.
Omer is leading the video reviewing group of officials and reviews all reviews to ensure alignment & quality, so he has probably seen the most games from the last WC.
Omer is currently also the only official to have officiated finals at World Games, World Championship & European Championships and been referee in both WC & Euros.
Omer has IFAF supervising experience from World Games 2022 & World Championship 2024 and we look forward to have him back where his international flag football experience started in a more basic clinic back in 2017
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