
5 Tips for effectively using a communication system from field hockey umpire Benjamin Göntgen
5 Tips for effectively using a communication system from field hockey umpire Benjamin Göntgen When I started to umpire in the hockey Bundesliga in Germany, the umpires were far away from using headsets. To umpire international games was a great opportunity and...

5 Tips for effectively using a communication system from soccer referee Ivan Mrkalj
This blog is written by Ivan Mrkalj, a German soccer referee. It´s not possible to imagine referees in (professional) football without using a headset system. The headsets are really helpful to increase good match decisions. Every start of a new technology...

5 Tips for effectively using a communication system from handball referee David Olovsson
I’m David Olovsson, aged 29 from Sweden. I’m a football and handball referee. I love to travel and meet new people. My 18 years, so far as a referee, have given me a lot experience in life and created me to who I am until this day, above that it also made...

The AXIWI-moment from Steve Janssen during the Paris World Games 2017
The 'AXIWI-moment from...' is a new rubric on the AXIWI blog where referees, coaches and sports officials can write about certain game situations in which AXIWI has been helpfull. In the case of a referee you can think of preventing him from taking an...

Blog #2 Harry and Gerda Kanis on cycling tour through Europe
Within 2 weeks after departure we have arrived at the Bodensee. For the ones who like to know the road we took: we went through the Ruhr area, the Eifel and via Remagen a city near the Rhine. We followed the river for three days and thanks to the good weather we could...

Our cycling holiday through Europe has started, with AXIWI
The journey has begun! The first days on the bike went very well! We haven on purpose chosen not to use the support of AXIWI communication system in the first 2 days. It would help us to better experience the difference between using the communication support and not...

Field hockey umpires and accessors using AXIWI during Royal Dutch Hockey Federation seminar
On Friday may 12th Jacir Soares de Brito (KNHB National league umpire) organised a seminar for the umpires and accessors of the KNHB district Zuid-Holland. These umpires officiate games in the 2nd and 3rd league and were introduced to the AXIWI AT-320 Duplex...

5 Tips for effectively using a communication system from Soccer (Assistant) Referee Michael Osseweijer
My name is Michael Osseweijer, 25 years old and an active assistant Referee at the KNVB. As part of a refereeing team, communication is vital to taking the necessary and the right decisions. People expect the decision to be fast, clear and correct. To assist us during...

5 tips for effective communication with a communication system from Handball referee Koen Stobbe
I am Koen Stobbe, 21 years old and a passionate handball referee. Together with my colleague and friend, Jaap Klompers, we travel through the Netherlands to officiate handball matches. At this moment we are referees at the highest level for women in the Netherlands...

Referees take more correct and faster decisions with communication system
PRESS RELEASE Research among more than 500 referees shows that through the use of a communication system, also called ‘headset‘, referees making decisions more correctly and faster during a sports game. They also indicate that a communication system can contribute to...