Yes , It's officially .
I have become a registered official referee under FIT Touch Malaysia .
I know you guys don't have any clues right ?
What is FIT Touch mean?
FIT stands for Federation of International Touch which is the international ruling body for the sport Touch (rugby).
It operates just like other international sporting body with countries joining as members and by supporting and servicing their member's requirements and developing their sport internationally .
Malaysia is one of the countries that joins FIT as an affiliating member known as Touch Malaysia (TM) .
You guys might be familiar with rugby , the hardcore tackle sport that can break your bones and crack your heads but this one is totally different that the usual rugby sport
As far as we know , we usually see full body contact in rugby sport as we called rugby union .
Touch rugby or we usually refer to Touch , which player do not tackle , high physically way but instead touch their opponents using their hands or any part of the body, clothing or the ball .
Sounds safe and no need for life insurance right ?
It's very safe to play as you can have mixed gender in your team .
If you familiar with rugby , it would be easier for you to play because touch rugby frequently used for training drill in rugby union but now they want to make it an international sport so that anyone can play it .
On 22 June 2013 , My friend , Fuad and I went to Garden International School at Mount Kiara for Level 1 Referee Badge Course that conducted by FIT Touch Malaysia .
It took us about one hour and a half to get there because we lost our track on our way there but luckily we managed to be there on time .
The course was conducted by Mr. B Lester , an experienced Level 6 referee badge holder from Australia .
We had one theory class about referee rules and regulation from 0900 till 1300 pm non-stop which drove us crazy .
I thought only Malaysian was joining the course and I was wrong because there were people from UK and Japan to name a few with us too .
We missed our breakfast and about to miss our lunch because we need to attend for our referee assessment on 1330 pm .
It was my bad day for not bringing any tracksuit for the assessment so I just wearing my jean for the whole day .
For the referee assessment , we need to follow all the referee signs and rules in order to pass the course with flying colours .
Referee team VS Scorpions Putrajaya Sports Club .
Yeah , that was our assessment .
We'll rotate for our turns and conducted the assessment at the same time .
It was quite fun and tiring to play and official the match but it was a good experience for all of us .
Pleasant day for all of us as we passed the course finally .
As the course ended , there were 35 qualified and registered referee under FIT Touch Malaysia in the country including me .
We need more Malaysian referee so we can manage and official any tournament to its highest quality same goes to the other sports .
Oh if you still don't get the idea of playing touch rugby , just click on the video below .
Who knows we might be competing each other soon .
