some ultimate strategy online! for really really!
A nice thorough look at the German offence:
I go a little crazy sometimes with the remarkable lack of detailed info online regarding Ultimate strategies. The Ultimate Handbook does great work, but there need to be more voices out there.
Thanks goodness for the few Ultimate blogs that have appeared, including Ultimate Frisbee Strategy/Coaching, parinella’s blog, frisbee spew, The Count’s blog, and more musings by Marshall, to name a few.
(Of course, these are some pretty high level players chatting away here — I ‘m simply hoping to nibble some info from the corners that I can apply to my gameplay here in Atlantic Canada.)
I sometimes feel like Ultimate is working on some sort of master/apprentice system, with trade secrets being passed down through whispers and hand signals. I’ve been playing for a while and have even played at a fairly high level (up to playing in the mixed division at the Canadian Nationals in 2002). Yet as new strategies come about I get the feeling that players are expected to learn the new stuff through osmosis or something. One great example is the wildly varying methods of horizontal offence I’ve had described to me over the past few years. I have not had it described the same way twice.
As my level of play has been at a more relaxed level the past few years (only playing within the Atlantic region), it hasn’t been as much of an issue as my ability to come up with new and fascinating cheer-alternatives. But with Nationals coming to Halifax next year, my goal is to make the Masters team. So, I feel the need to fill my brain.
June 15th, 2005 at 12:21 am
Ann says Hi.
There is some fun and useful stuff in the blogs. Jim’s latest post about Mechanical Cutting is great. That description of the German is very good, too. I think some descriptions of the “European” O’s (German, Swedish, etc.) skimp over a major difference: in a lot of the sets, they run thrower-generated offense as opposed to cutter-generated offense. In other words, they’re often designed around the ability to throw to space before the cutter is even going. I guess People play spread O’s very differently at this point. Only the best teams I’ve seen in spreads really run them as good offense;for most teams it’s really just a different way to create isolations to start plays.
June 15th, 2005 at 11:01 am
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