Umpiring Basics

Useful information because I'm about to start umpiring teeball as a teen lol

First of all, Ed Hickox was one of my instructors at umpire school, to see him so young is trippy. Secondly, I spent 5 weeks at umpire school and a lot of money to learn exactly everything that is in this video. lol.

Angel Hernandez needs to watch this.

Been doing this 20 years and i learned a lot . its a great video. Great job guys.

great video!

Great video, very informative and helpful! You deserve a sub!

Thanks for posting this informative video, I really appreciate it.

"Take your mask off early to avoid the catchers mask as he throws it" immediately trips over mask

This is literally exactly the video I was looking for

Thanks I learned so much with this video

Tons of great information!

I'm at a point in my umpiring career, almost 30 years, where camps don't do me much good because most umpire camps are cookie-cutter camps that all teach such basic things. I don't need to learn how to position myself to call balls & strikes. I don't need to learn the importance of pause-read-react. It's not like I cannot learn anything useful, but I don't get much bang for the buck in most camps because a lot of time is wasted on things I already know and have mastered. Mostly, I learn by watching professionals and talking and working with guys who are even more experienced than me. I guess there are advanced camps out there but most camps are geared to umpires with less than 5 years of experience.

Craig Gribson the Home Plate Vampire!

If your looking for the section on “Working the plate” it’s at 19:40min

How come there's never anything mentioned about the importance of having a thorough pregame with your partner to discuss responsibilities, signals and the ground rules/dead ball areas of a field? IDK if this would be considered "basic", but there should also be something said in reference to the plate guy and his communicating with the respective catcher of each team?

Well done

Al Kaplan is the official in the movie "Dodgeball" and the the other umpire is Ed Hickox Major League Umpire.

@24:56 :  Avoiding the catcher's mask as it's thrown to the ground. Proceeds to run directly into the mask.

Thank you showing your skill~~~

Are there any other videos to this series?