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A variant of ultimate ideal for small fields and/or under-attended practices, mini gives lots of pitch time and lots of touches
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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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An exercise in keeping possession and making space for each other in a small space. With only one person able to receive a pass, it is important for players to make space for each other.
A themed game that provides lots of chances to practice receiving the pull.
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Side stack gives a huge amount of field space for an offence to work in. Many teams will counter this by using multiple defenders to clog up the cutting lanes, so this drill teaches how to play against this defence.
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Bring together a variety of techniques to reset the disc in a sideline trap or whenever the reset is on the break side
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Scoring is much easier playing 2 on 2 than 7 on 7. The idea of this drill is to score efficiently and cleanly without resorting to 7 on 7 by making use of momentum and overloading the defence.
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An additional rule to encourage players to make space for each other.
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Using a basic rule set, and an expansion from the simplified rules, teams play games in a manner closer to the full rule set. This rule set, pitch dimensions and player numbers can be gradually expanded as ability increases.
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Extra rules in a match to encourage receiver to make longer runs in specific directions.
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A simplified game to introduce the objectives of ultimate as well as basic rules.
Game time!
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Defence practices prioritising and switching onto the most dangerous offensive threats while they are outnumbered in order to contain the offensive flow.
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The objective of the drill is to practice how the defenders position themselves when the disc swings.
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This mini-game helps to teach coordination of cutting option when running peppermills
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Poaching the lanes is a smart defensive strategy; here we learn how to frustrate handler counter-strategies while clogging the lanes
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An exercise in keeping possession and moving the disc away from defenders. Two large teams keep their running score in a race to complete 100 passes.
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As a teams understanding of ultimate develops, they should look to use all areas of the pitch - namely forward, backwards and sideways. This game uses a short, but wide, pitch to encourage side to side play due to two scoring areas for each team on opposite sides of the pitch.
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Practice maintaining flow and swinging the disc in vertical stack
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Try these different defensive priorities to change the defensive pressures that your opponent experiences, or as a way to take away their favourite method of moving the disc
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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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Timing deep cuts is a vital part of being a good receiver; it rarely gets much attention but when you time your cuts correctly, throwing away becomes much easier (and you'll catch more goals!)
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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.
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7 v 7, zone defence, on a full sized pitch. Defensive players focus on their individual roles and work as a team to contain the offence's options.
