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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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A simple drill that gets people putting on a one-way force to push opponents to one side of the pitch. Also gives new throwers time to get used to a defenders presence.
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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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3 attackers against 1 defender creates mismatches for the attackers to try to exploit. With the numerical advantage, the attackers should succeed - can they?
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This drill emphasises gaining yards by challenging the thrower to break the mark early
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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.
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This is a useful cutting pattern for handlers when cutting or clearing.
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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 is a simple method of clearing handlers up field to create space for a cutter.
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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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Increasing a throwers pivot width provides them with more space away from the mark while also challenging their mark to cover a greater distance as the attempt to prevent throws.
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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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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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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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A coordinated cutting pattern that gets the disc out of a sideline trap efficiently
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Throwing and catching to practice technique and expand range.
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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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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.
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This is a simple movement useful whenever a downfield dump is being fronted
