TD training
I've been the TD at my club for 20 years and we need someone else should I auddenly 'drop off the perch' . . . . . . how does your club get others lined up to take on the job?
When I took over I have to teach myself how to set up a movement and manage/direct that movemnet and the score it by hand. Is that the same for everyone?
There are several parts to the job.
1 Setting up a movement.
2 Directing that movement
3 The laws and rulings over alleged infractions.
4 Scoring.
Of the above 1 is easy and 2 - Directing the movement is the first difficult hurdle to master. To do this without error you need to know the movement (a clear picture in your head of where everything is and where everything and everybody is going to move to). This IMO) is a one man/woman job; if two people were doing this job or even one person doing it with another ‘watching’ it would greatly increase the chance of error for many reason. Moving the Board and the players MUST (IMO) be the sole responsibility of that Director on that night. How, in your club, does your deputy director learn how to do this?
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Thanks Gordon - I did that programme about 10 years ago and from memory it was 100% Laws and Rulings . . . . my question is to others at oter clubs what do those propsective new TD's do to get themselve up to speed with setting up and running (Directing) a movement?
The Law and Rulings are complex and a 'trainee' TD can always ask a qulaifioed player there to help with rulings.
The EBED Club TD Training courses may seem like all laws and rulings, but actually, the first of the four days are all about movements and preparation and other general aspects of running a bridge session.
If you have "qualified players to help with rulings", you might persuade them to consider TD-ing too.
I certainly recommend the EBED courses. And when you get someone through the course, set them on TD-ing at sessions where you can be available to assist, particularly at the start to get the right movement going.
It is nowadays recommended for clubs to have for their TDs a standard list of which movement to use for whatever number of tables they are likely to have. I have done about three lists for my F2F club as we have different weekly sessions aiming to play different numbers of boards.
Barrie Partridge - CTD for Bridge Club Live
I think Gordon was pointing you at Day 0, which does cover what you want.
We ask for volunteers, and mostly do the non-law stuff by shadowing. We also have good procedures and "how to" guides, which cover the specifics of our club (preferred movements, location of equipment, scoring system used, how to upload results...). We also have a 2 hour "how to use the scoring system" course.