BananaCut

...Cutting is as much about fooling your defender as it is about flat-out beating him, and one man's cut is enabled by the work of six others making space for him to have a play.

The value of confusing the defense's expectations is rather large for the offense...

When you do drills (from your warm-up jog, plant, jog/run/sprint back, to 1v1 cutting), make a conscious effort not just to use your non-dominant foot, but to do so even to the point of exclusion of the other foot. Limit yourself for a league game, or mixed pickup at practice (hi, Dartmouth!), and try to maintain effectiveness. Does it work?

If you heard about a team that took their region three times in the last four years, made Nationals every year since 2002 and while there, made Quarters three times in the last six years, and the Final Four in 2006 - you'd likely say they were a contender for that elusive Sarasota Gold.

Many of you may be familiar with the standard set of 100 throws. They're effective, but there are other aspects we can vary (speed, height, etc...). So here are 2 other sets of throws you can use.

I thought I'd go back over some of my older posts--I have a feeling that with the influx of new readers this blog has seen over the past couple months, it's likely that some of the stuff I started posting in the summer, when I changed from simply recapping my ultimate experience to (attempting to) share how I've learned to play, has been overlooked.

You are in an elimination game against a very strong defensive team, and as the game moves along you find that your offense is having to work extremely hard to throw reset throws.

One of the challenges of coaching is having young players as well as older players understand the difference in the window of opportunity of i/o throws and o/i throws. Especially break throws.

No matter what level of team here in the northeast, at least once a game, there is always the dreaded i/o break turnover to someone making a cone cut from the back of the stack.

Of the most fundamental skills in Ultimate, throwing definitely tops the list. But close behind is catching. Catching is absolutely vital to playing Ultimate.

Horizontal stack offenses have become the new paradigm in a relatively short time. Many teams have adopted these types of offenses as initiation, rather than continuation, continues to be sought in the face of pressure defenses at all levels of the game.