Thursday Jan 22

Focus: catching and endzone iso-play.

Catching.

Review: Always run to the disc. Watch the disc into your hands. Don't spread your hands too far apart, this only makes the catch harder. When catching with your defender close by, position your body between the disc and your defender to prevent a run through D and to give yourself more time to complete the catch (even if you position your body well, you still have to go to the disc; if you stop your defender will run around you and will get the D!). Finally, be confident! If you believe you can catch the disc, you will catch it!

Drill: grr drill.

Endzone iso-play.

Review: In this endzone play we'll have three handlers across, three cutters spreading out in the back of the endzone, and one cutter isolated in the middle of the endzone. The cutter has three parts of the field they can get the disc: the open lane, the inside-out lane, and the break-mark lane. If your handler can throw the break, go ahead and drift to the break side and catch their throw. If you can get open on the open side, go do it! If our isolated cutter is covered by multiple defenders, remember that we don't want a particular person to score, we just want one of our seven players to score! Find the poached player and throw her the disc. This play works best with ho-stack offense, but can be called if we play vertical stack and have time to set it up. Don't forget to leave three handlers back!

Drill: thrower+cutter vs markter+downfield defender.