Analysed team: Seattle Sockeye
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Sockeye Switching Zone, USAU Nationals 2018
Sockeye are playing a help scheme defence aimed at clogging throwing lanes and preventing short handler movement
Defence
Poaching
Switching
Zone Defence
Sockeye, US Nationals 2015
Watch Sockeye run a simple yet powerful set play: the peppermill
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Peppermill
Sockeye, US Open 2014
Watch the cutter nearest the camera take advantage of the space that is created in the middle of the field, and how Sockeye use this advantageous position to immediately move the disc. Without holding the disc for more than a couple of seconds, or taking any risky options, they have moved from one end of the field to the other.
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Set Plays
US Open Final 2021 (1)
Having dropped a pull, Chicago Machine have a few seconds to quickly set up their end zone defence in the US Open Final 2021 against Seattle Sockeye. What follows is a great example of a sophisticated switching & poaching defence, and how an offence might try to break it down.
Endzone Defence
Poaching
Switching