Cup: Reacting to swings by Jodie Palmer

Faced with a cup defence, many offences will attempt to move the disc laterally by swinging the disc. Here, we show how a cup should react.

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Swings to the open side Swings to the open side are what the zone is trying to encourage. The movement in this scenario is just to keep funneling the disc towards the open side of the field while maintaining the cup’s structure to make sure no throws can go back towards the break side as the cup moves. Swings to the break side Swings to the break side are a way for the offence to attack against a cup zone, […]

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