Poaching off handlers who are near or behind the disc is often a good place to learn the basics of poaching
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Good throwers will generate opportunities to throw long, despite an active or flat mark. Offences will also seek to isolate lane cutters, as they move the disc downfield the situation may go from 7v7 to 5v5 then 3v3 and maybe 1v1. It is virtually impossible to stop someone in a 1v1 situation, so if an offence is trying to isolate a cutter in space, they may deliberately move other offensive players into inactive or dead areas of the field, seeking […]
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I was just asked by a team mate when is it preferable to poach a handler, and when it’s definitely a no-go. I answered that t to my understanding, it’s generally advisable, as long as with rising stall we get back to our player. Perhaps force middle excludes poaches? How do you think?
Well with any tactic there is a risk-reward trade-off. It might work. It might not.
The idea with poaching off handlers is because the other team is able to hit their cutters, and you want to stop them doing that. So, if you can force them to throw to their handlers instead, and maybe deny their cutters getting the disc, then it’s a good tactic.
This doesn’t mean that the offence can’t then respond with a counter-tactic of their own :)