Does anyone have information on the modified interval testing reference times for state level referees? I heard that there is 20x 150m in 45" + 50m in 45". If this is correct, where would I find this information?
Yes, those times are correct, since 2016. Look up http://bit.ly/2CBV8LK where you would also find the beeps audio.
This is why I'll never be above a Grade 8. When I was a cross-country runner in high school, sure. And probably for 10 years or so after that. Since I acquired a dad bod? No way. (I have lost nearly 30 pounds in a year, but I still wouldn't see myself keeping up with good athletes at U19 and above.)
I wouldn’t get to comfortable with it if you are a grade 6. I am hearing bad news on the requirements being changed.
Me neither. Except that my state requires all retuning adult refs to register as 7s. It's just a number on my registration card that I probably won't bother to print anyway.
Comfortable is an understatement for that 'test'. I pulled my hamstring (minor) on sprint 4 trying to prove that I was better than the test to all of the state big-wigs and still passed the test on the bum leg.
While it’s a fair point I’m not sure how the argument that a grade 6 (ref barely starting the climb to semi pro) has to be able to run a fitness test for fifa referees. Which is the rumor I’m hearing.
I think it's just a difference of philosophy. I was running the fifa test once and a first-time runner was complaining about how hard it was (cause they weren't trained, quite frankly). Someone else basically told them to feel free to quit because, at that level, the point of the fitness test is not to fail you. It's to confirm what you can already do. Right now the tests seem to confirm what should be already known at that level. It seems like we're going to opposite side. That, if you can pass x test, you'll be more than prepared for this level, rather than saying "If you're a 6, you can pass this with your eyes closed."
The logic still doesn’t quite fit though. I’m not saying we stick with the current standard. It is fairly easy. But saying you should have to pass a test for referees at least 4 grades above you doesn’t seem right either. Unfortunately middle ground has never been a place for the soccer world to think exists.
If you could share which states these are please. 150 in 45 does not feel appropriate for 6s; however, many 6s over 45, years, that is, have no objections. Whatever happened to minimum standards?
I believe that South Texas just announced that state refs (err, I mean "Regional" referees) are being held to the standard of 17 seconds per 75 meters run and 20/25 walk. In other words, 35/40. I'm too old and slow to worry about that, but I think that undoes a change made a year ago.