Awesome, Jack. Thank you for sharing such important information. This is such a valuable resource for the younger generation coming up. Like when Brodie had all his videos. You could learn how to throw a flick or how to lay out, or how to sky someone - or at least get a very good player and thrower's perspective and approach. It's also nice for us older dogs who are still hanging on and want to learn something new. This is definitely the spirit of the game in action and community building. I'm sure when you love something it's fun to teach it too. I like your appeal to MLB to pick his brain to make your edits less tragic. Hilarious way to say that. Sol.
When will we be recognized by the Olympics? Ultimate Frisbee is so underrated on our city that we don't have any field to play on because they prioritize other sports like football.
This video was fantastic! How did you get into the league you are in?! I’ve been playing and have been playing ultimate frisbee for a few years now and have a group chat of close to 100 people. We get to play every once or twice a month! Ever since the first time I played ultimate frisbee I’ve been in love with it! Thank you for your videos! God bless!
Any chance you could comment on your observations regarding the utilization of zone-D in AUDL? In general, with the ability to double team and the elite level of play, it seems like old school "cups" are out. Any thoughts on the validity of this? Any comments for what kind of lessons this might translate to for a DIII college coach/team?
1:52, first clip shows excellent use of switching to stop give-gos and quick break side counterflow of a flat side dump where the reset is set up 45 degrees back from thrower. 5:38, second clip shows how to guard the reset when they set up lateral or 0 degrees to the thrower. 6:48, not mentioned here but worth considering is that this defensive positioning, sometimes called a squeeze, I think works effectively for defense against vert stack but less so against ho, because a successful upline gives up a huck power position, and that's more of a threat in ho. The bigger threat in vert is breakside flow. Against ho, you can face guard more parallel to the sideline and work to deny the upline. If there's a dump/swing, there may be an under continuation but it won't be for very many yards since ho cutters are shallower than a BOS continuation in vert. But at the same time, there may be no continuation if the 3rd handler defender is poaching the lane for the continuation. But then all this also assumes that the thrower can throw that inside back hand. When you're playing rec or even juniors, that may not be something reliable, so on that case use the squeeze regardless of ho or vert. 9:35, last example. Team defense essentially zoning on the flat side of the two main reset spots (the upline and the dump/swing)
Thanks Jack, great job. I would like to submit a vote for the following ---> Instead of pausing the video while you do a prefacing talk, just loop the video so we can understand what we're looking at BEFORE you "show" it to us. I know for me, I struggle to make sense of a field position from a static picture.
I think it would be really helpful in these scenarios to see how the offense eventually beats this D. This can help us on offense and know what to look for when playing this D.
2:49, just found a real in game example of Jack doing this and it's sweet. WUCC 2018: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ho2QN2Kd3Nc.html, at 9:50
This video gave me some really great insights. I especially loved the commentary about timing your cuts and making sure you have enough room to actually make the cut. I hope you do more videos like this!
So pumped this video got posted, im developing new players here in China (they're all soccer players) and we literally just talked about you and your jump cuts on Wednesday
My hs team is all relatively new and mostly everyone knows the vert stack but not much else. We are constantly being beat by teams way worse then us because we don’t keep the disc moving and have no other ways to play then the vert stack what are some tips to keep the disc flowing and how to play in a way that isn’t so dependent on the vert stack… hopefully that makes sense.
Ho stack? Hex maybe? Watch some truck stop from last year to see a solid vert offense. They are great at small ball. It takes a lot of skill to play like that though. They have perfect inside breaks
What's the reason for curling around the defender upline instead of blowing straight by them? Is it just assuming they're not going to give you quite that much space?
In my opinion it's to box the defender out and make it difficult for him/her to get in between you and the disc.. Gives the thrower an option to either float it forward like a traditional upline and get some yards or punch a short pass to the body if the defense is too tight..
It might be because you read your defender wrong initially. Like when you're thinking I'm gonna go backfield with a fake up line, but your defender reads that so you do a second move, this scoop as some call it. It could also be easier than just brute forcing it with speed. Why waste that energy and be a harder target for the thrower? Honestly though I don't think I see many scoops like the first example I mentioned. I see it more when the reset chooses to attack one side, turning the defender's hips so his back is to the thrower, then easily changing direction to get open upline on the other side of the defender. Honestly it's a great move.
If they're playing right in front of where you are travelling, you have to curl around them in some way or you'll run into them. And it's generally harder to stop/easier to throw to if you cut inside of them (like Jack shows), at the cost of crowding the thrower/gaining less yards.
Doesn't USAU used the 'Contact' rule now too? Where, when you have the disc, instead of calling a Foul and stopping play, you can call Contact which is a foul with a count drop to zero and no stoppage of play...?
I think the watchability can improve if you continue replaying the clip at times when you aren't specifically pointing out something in a freeze frame. I started feeling kind of antsy when the frame was freezed but you weren't talking about something specific in the frame. Thanks for the video, cheers!
Hi Jack, big fan! Could you do some video on decision making in the red zone? I would say many teams especially on the lower level of ultimate struggle with finding the right angles to safely attack the endzone and end up turning the disc over on the last throw. Is there something you guys use in the elite division to prevent that, set yourself up to success or is it simply just being very conservative and patient in the endzone sets?
