Flik Academy

Understand how great cutters create and use space so you can get open more consistently, beat your defender and become a more effective part of your team’s offence.

Do you always seem to be working harder than your defender?

Maybe you know the cuts you’re supposed to make. Maybe you’re sprinting every point. Yet somehow your defender arrives first, your continuation cuts disappear, or the offence stalls before you ever become an option.

The problem usually isn’t effort. It’s understanding how effective cutters create and use space.

This course gives you a clear, structured framework for developing the movement, timing and decision-making that allow great cutters to consistently create opportunities for themselves and their teammates.

Who is this course for?

• Players who struggle to get open consistently
• Intermediate players looking to improve their cutting, timing and decision-making
• Experienced players who want a deeper understanding of offensive movement
• Coaches looking for a clear framework to teach cutting and team offence

Do you struggle with…

• Defenders always seeming to know where you’re going?
• Working hard without creating meaningful separation?
• Knowing when to cut, clear or hold your position?
• Arriving too early or too late for continuation throws?
• Cutting into teammates or disrupting your offence’s spacing?

If so, this course is designed to help you understand the movement principles that solve those problems.

Why this course is different

Most Ultimate coaching resources answer individual questions.

• How do I jab step?
• How do I clear?
• How do I run a double cut?

Those skills matter, but learning them in isolation rarely makes you a better cutter.

This course takes a different approach.

Every lesson builds on the previous one, taking you from the fundamentals of offensive movement through to creating separation, winning individual match-ups and understanding team offensive systems. By the end of the course, you’ll understand not just how to execute different cuts, but why they work, when to use them and how your movement affects the players around you.

• Structured progression from individual movement to team offence
• Simple concepts you can apply immediately
• Movement mechanics explained through the demands of Ultimate
• Elite game footage showing every concept in action
• Designed for real game situations, not isolated drills

What you’ll learn

Understanding Cutting

Learn the purpose behind every cut, how different cutting shapes work together, and why effective clearing is just as important as receiving the disc.

Moving Efficiently

Build better acceleration, deceleration and change of direction while learning how to turn more efficiently and transfer those movements into game situations.

Creating Separation

Master the footwork used by elite cutters, including jab steps, split steps, crossover cuts, double cuts and jump cuts, while learning how to recognise the right moment to attack.

Winning Your Match-up

Learn how to attack better angles, use vertical and lateral space, manipulate your defender and maintain separation as the disc moves up the field.

Playing in Tight Spaces

Become more effective around the disc by improving your reset cutting and learning how to create opportunities without blocking valuable attacking space.

Team Offensive Movement

Understand how effective cutting fits into vertical stacks, horizontal stacks and flowing offences, helping you contribute even when you never receive the disc.

What will change after this course?

• Create separation more consistently without relying on speed alone
• Know when to cut, clear and hold your position
• Move more efficiently when accelerating, stopping and changing direction
• Read space more effectively and make better cutting decisions
• Become more dangerous as a reset cutter
• Improve your timing and understanding of offensive flow
• Contribute more to your team’s offence, even when you don’t receive the disc

Learn from real game situations

Every concept is illustrated using footage from elite Ultimate, breaking down the decisions, movement and timing that make great cutters so difficult to defend.

Rather than teaching isolated techniques, the course shows how movement, timing and teamwork combine during real points, helping you understand not just what elite players do, but why they do it.

The result is a practical framework that players can apply immediately and coaches can use to teach cutting more effectively.

Course Content

• Understanding Cutting – making cuts, clearing, cutting shapes and types of cut
• Moving Efficiently – acceleration, deceleration, turning and changing direction
• Creating Separation – jab steps, split steps, crossover cuts, double cuts, jump cuts and recognising opportunities
• Winning Your Match-up – attacking angles, lateral movement, vertical space, sealing and milking
• Playing in Tight Spaces – reset cutting and engaging defenders in the lane
• Team Offensive Movement – triangle cutting, vertical stacks, horizontal stacks and continuation timing

Course length: 35 lessons. We recommend working through the lessons in order and practising each concept before moving on to the next.

Start creating better offence today

Great cutting isn’t about running harder than everyone else. It’s about understanding space, timing your movement and recognising how every cut creates opportunities for the rest of the offence.

Whether you’re trying to get open more consistently, become a smarter offensive player or coach cutting more effectively, this course provides a complete framework that you can continue to build on throughout your Ultimate career.

We believe high-quality coaching should be accessible to everyone. If you live in a country where our standard pricing isn’t affordable, please get in touch to ask about our community pricing.