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Take a look through the theory and drills from Brummie.
Sion "Brummie" Scone represented Great Britain as a player from 2007-2016, winning European Gold (2007, Open) & WUGC Silver (2012, Open), WUGC Bronze (2016, Masters), World Beach Silver (2004, Mixed) and also played in the first ever GB World Games team in 2009.
Brummie has been coaching since 2003, and at all levels from total beginners to international superstars. He’s coached university, club and national teams over the course of several seasons - including coaching GB Open to their first ever medal in 2012, and GB World Games 2013 - as well as running regular "open to all" clinics. He's coached across Europe, Africa & beyond, and was Head Coach of the GB u24 Mens team for the 2018 campaign.
Brummie has been coaching since 2003, and at all levels from total beginners to international superstars. He’s coached university, club and national teams over the course of several seasons - including coaching GB Open to their first ever medal in 2012, and GB World Games 2013 - as well as running regular "open to all" clinics. He's coached across Europe, Africa & beyond, and was Head Coach of the GB u24 Mens team for the 2018 campaign.
theory
drills
This pattern is a staple in ultimate, and worth practicing. Often referred to as a ‘V’ cut due to the sharp change of direction.
This simple pattern is deceptively difficult to execute, but can generate power position as well as providing a reset opportunity
This give and go variant takes advantage of the marker's position to isolate someone immediately after throwing the disc backwards.
Being able to throw into space for a receiver to run onto is critical for many drills in ultimate; this is the most simple drill to get started
A variant of ultimate ideal for small fields and/or under-attended practices, mini gives lots of pitch time and lots of touches
Cyclone is effective when chaining together multiple cuts, as in this drill
By starting on the open side and cutting towards the break side, the receiver's momentum takes them beyond the mark, generating simple continuation
A simple drill that gets people taking on a straight up mark and provides lots of repetitions in a short period of time
A crafty little move that was extensively used by the Japanese womens team who won WUGC 2012, this is a coordinate movement between the upfield dump ("3H") and the backfield dump
This is a simple reset pattern for a downfield dump to get the disc off the sideline
This drill should be a staple for any team that uses a dump behind the disc, and will teach you to use a reset as a way of generating power position or movement to the break side.
This drill helps to train your players in breaking the mark to lateral cutters
Allows the cutter to either cut deep or under on the break side, and teaches the thrower to react quickly to opportunities
Allows the cutter to either cut deep or under on the open side, and teaches the thrower to react quickly to opportunities
This pattern is a staple in ultimate, and worth practicing. Often referred to as a ‘V’ cut due to the sharp change of direction.
This is an aggressive handler cut that can be used to generate power position immediately from the pull
This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
A simple way of recycling the disc, often used when other options have failed and a cutter from downfield has to get involved
If the initial lateral cut isn't available, turning to cut deep is a fantastic clearing cut as well as a viable open to generate power position.
This is a useful cutting pattern for handlers when cutting or clearing.
This is a useful cutting pattern for handlers when cutting or clearing, particularly when blocked by a well-positioned defender.
This pattern is a staple in ultimate, and worth practicing. Often referred to as a ‘V’ cut due to the sharp change of direction.
When a cutter doesn't get the disc on the break side, turning laterally provides an excellent reset option
This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
This drill provides a second cutting option if B is not able to get open on their first cut.
A method to prevent break side continuation on a dump behind play
A brick play popular with the British team Chevron Action Flash in the early 2000s, this movement utilises a break throw to the front of the stack to set up a long throw.
The 'chisel' is a good way of moving a handler defender who is poaching in the lane which forces the poach to reposition
This is a simple method of clearing handlers up field to create space for a cutter.
A spectacular throw popularised by the Japanese team Buzz Bullets, this throw involves throwing diagonally across the field, and against the mark
This is a deep throw that tails across to the break side, ensuring that the flight path never comes close to the defender
Breaking the mark is often seen as one of the most important skills in ultimate, so this drill should be a staple for any team.
One of the simplest movements in ultimate, and a frequent option in any offence
This drill replicates a straight up mark while the disc is on the sideline, with a cutter heading towards the sideline
Learn the decision making and options available during a full 7-on-7 game using Cyclone
Combine a number of options here and play with full defence; this drill will teach you how to combine cuts when running Cyclone, and help you to develop the decision making required to use Cyclone in a game.
The characteristic movement of handlers clearing laterally to the break side in Cyclone is practiced with this drill
Losing yards with a dump can be offset by increasing your chances of moving the disc laterally
This pattern is ideal for throwing continuation down the break side channel after breaking the mark
This throw is used to hit a cutter who is isolated on the open side as they turn to cut away from the disc
This pattern is used when throwing down the open side; angling the disc towards the receiver makes it difficult for the defender to make a play
If you're free on the open side, why not get the disc going downfield as well as to the side? This short range leading pass seeks to put the downfield dump in power position.
Dish moves can be used to move the disc to the break side without ever directly breaking the mark
A dish pass allows a cutter to quickly offload the disc to a handler, while also generating power position
A double move where the reset cuts backwards to fake out a defender, then cuts for power position
A double move where a reset handler fakes the upline cut before coming back for the sideline dump
Another give and go move designed to keep the disc in the hands of the best throwers
Defenders might attempt to change the position of the mark to prevent give and go moves; this drill helps you to deal with that by using your pivot to avoid the mark entirely
This can be a difficult throw to execute as there's little margin of error for the thrower, but it is ideal in small areas such as in the endzone
A dynamic method of moving the disc off the pull that utilises a give and go
Handler movement can be so difficult to stop that teams have constructed their entire offence around it. Here's just a sample of how to bolt together the key movements.
This drill helps to train your players in breaking the mark to lateral cutters
This pattern allows you to use the width of the field, rather than just throwing directly to a reset handler
This is a great way of moving the disc after receiving a pull, while ensuring that you move the disc laterally and generate good throwing opportunities
Marker movement on a one-way force is slightly different to a straight up mark and requires the marker to understand the immediate threats and defensive priorities
If the initial lateral cut isn't available, turning to cut deep is a fantastic clearing cut as well as a viable open to generate power position.
Allows the cutter to cut under either on the break side or the open side, and teaches the thrower to react quickly to opportunities
This pattern is a staple in ultimate, and worth practicing. Often referred to as a ‘V’ cut due to the sharp change of direction.
This pattern is a staple in ultimate, and worth practicing. It's a great method for clearing space as well as being a viable threat, and can lead to easy continuation on the break side
This is a useful cutting pattern for handlers when cutting or clearing, particularly when a marker over-plays the open side, leaving them vulnerable to cuts on the break side
This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
A tricky short throw that's ideal for hitting a cutter isolated on the open side
Use this drill to teach your team to move downfield in vertical stack early and effectively in order to maintain flow
This drill works on repositioning the vertical stack in response to disc movement across the field.
Power Play developed as a reaction to defenders who over-committed to prevent a reset handler from getting power position. The beauty of this move is that it allows the handler generate power position anyway, just facing the other side of the field.
One way to make your give and go moves more effective is to prevent your defender from being able to access the space by "sealing the lane"
This drill will teach you to generate two useful scenarios from a sideline trap: power position or continuation to the break side
This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
The force middle defence can make teams swing the disc a lot; here, the handlers reset the disc into an area not defended to generate power position
An aggressive cut that gains yards and provides power position
A coordinated cutting pattern that gets the disc out of a sideline trap efficiently
A coordinated cutting pattern that gets the disc out of a sideline trap efficiently
Horizontal stack works best when the disc is in the centre third of the field, so it's vital that you're able to escape from a sideline trap
Get off the sideline and set up continuation to the far sideline with this simple move
This throw is more difficult than it looks; throw early as the most often mistake is that the disc hangs too long
This is ideal for practicing throwing continuation after breaking the mark
A simple, game-like drill that helps to incorporate decision making for handlers receiving the pull
Use this drill to practice getting your cup positioning right, and how to get out of trap situations
Practice maintaining flow and swinging the disc in vertical stack
The idea here is to get three or more cutters working together, all running the Triangle Cutting patterns, to provide lots of options to throw to in a short space of time.
Throwing to a player running directly away by using a curved flight path
Throwing to a cutter running directly away using a flat pass
A simple combination of cuts that can be used to provide three throwing options - away, open side and break side - in quick succession.
If the initial cut isn't available, turning to cut to the break side is a fantastic clearing cut. In this pattern, we add another option, a deep strike, which is ideal when cutting in isolation.
Great throwers can manipulate markers to move in lots of directions; here we show an effective method of moving on the mark to deal with pivots
Gets a handler to clear upfield to free up space for another player to cut back for the reset
A great warmup drill that helps give lots of repetitions and teaches the idea of catching the disc from one direction, turning to face another person, and quickly swinging the disc. This is useful for bypassing defenders.
This dynamic drill brings together a multitude of cutting options, and is good for teaching cutters how to exploit one-on-one matchups.
This is a simple movement useful whenever a downfield dump is being fronted
Allows the cutter to either cut deep or under on the open side, and teaches the thrower to react quickly to opportunities. Ideal for continuation cuts.
This is a coordinated cutting pattern aimed at moving defenders to create an undefended away cut.
This is a coordinated cutting pattern aimed at moving defenders to create an undefended under cut.