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An overview of how to make continuation throws easier by considering our break mark throws in more detail
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A simple drill that gets people taking on a straight up mark and provides lots of repetitions in a short period of time
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Players practice setting up as the mark and adjusting their positioning to shut down the throw to a moving dump.
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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
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This drill helps to train your players in breaking the mark to lateral cutters
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Forcing offence to stay still means you'll need to take on some throws that you might normally find difficult in this fun game
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Allows the cutter to either cut deep or under on the break side, and teaches the thrower to react quickly to opportunities
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This pattern is a staple in ultimate, and worth practicing. Often referred to as a ‘V’ cut due to the sharp change of direction.
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This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
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This drill emphasises gaining yards by challenging the thrower to break the mark early
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Making a break mark drill more difficult will vastly improve your throwing ability; here, we force the thrower to hit a precise point on the field.
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This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
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This drill provides a second cutting option if B is not able to get open on their first cut.
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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.
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The 'chisel' is a good way of moving a handler defender who is poaching in the lane which forces the poach to reposition
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This is a simple method of clearing handlers up field to create space for a cutter.
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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.
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This drill replicates a straight up mark while the disc is on the sideline, with a cutter heading towards the sideline
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The characteristic movement of handlers clearing laterally to the break side in Cyclone is practiced with this drill
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Dish moves can be used to move the disc to the break side without ever directly breaking the mark
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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
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Extra rules in a match to encourage marking a thrower in order to limit their options and to encourage throwers and receivers to use space available.
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Good offences have lots of options from just a few basic movements. Here, we combine dynamic handler movement with downfield cutting options to give a dozen options in a short space of time.
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A competitive game to encourage pressure on the mark and throwers dealing with that pressure to complete their throws.
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This drill helps to train your players in breaking the mark to lateral cutters
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While the classic give and go involves working on the open side, the inverse give and go starts with a break throw, then moving quickly while the marker is recovering
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Japanese teams use narrow space and quick throws as a way to nullify the size disadvantage they tend to have when playing internationally. They also seek to maximise the advantages gained by motion, looking to attack into areas that are difficult to defend and which make it difficult for defenders to prevent continuation.
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Japanese teams use narrow space and quick throws as a way to nullify the size disadvantage they tend to have when playing internationally. They also seek to maximise the advantages gained by motion, looking to attack into areas that are difficult to defend and which make it difficult for defenders to prevent continuation.
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Limiting the ability of the cutter forces the thrower to be more creative; this drill will teach throwers to identify space and select an appropriate throw
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3 handlers on offence attempt to swing the disc across the field while the mark and break use body positioning to prevent the throws.
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By starting on the open side and cutting towards the break side, the receiver's momentum takes them beyond the mark, generating simple continuation
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Allows the cutter to cut under either on the break side or the open side, and teaches the thrower to react quickly to opportunities
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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
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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
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This drill provides a second cutting option if {B} is not able to get open on their first cut.
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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.
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A group of attackers, in a circle, attempt to keep possession away from a small number of defenders inside the circle.
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Also known as a 7 cut, this handler move attacks upline then provides a second cutting option if they can't get open
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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
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A coordinated cutting pattern that gets the disc out of a sideline trap efficiently
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Chicago Machine's Brett & Goose bring together multiple cutting options to show the power of the vertical stack formation
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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.
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Different throws are more useful in different circumstances, so you'll need to practice lots of different scenarios rather than just throwing back and forth all the time. Trying to use just four types of throw with four different reception areas results in 16 different throws being practiced in this one drill.
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A simple combination of cuts that can be used to provide three throwing options - away, open side and break side - in quick succession.
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Triangle forcing helps the mark to prevent break throws to dangerous areas by adjusting their positioning according to threats in different areas of the field.
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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
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Gets a handler to clear upfield to free up space for another player to cut back for the reset
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This dynamic drill brings together a multitude of cutting options, and is good for teaching cutters how to exploit one-on-one matchups.
