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Brian Li
Sophomore
Watchung Warriors
Class of 09'
I messed up at practice again today. I'll be honest, I don't know why I did so bad at the skying drill. Is it because I didn't hear an up call on defense? Is it because Coach Porter threw the disc in the direction of the defender and I automatically had very bad positioning? I don't know, but I prefer not to blame things on other people but myself. Criticize no other but myself. But make it constructive criticism.
When handling today, I tried setting up the dump on the force side. Not the best idea. No matter how far back I set up, my defender might just poach off of me and cut off a throwing lane. I don't remember who suggested it to me, but from now on I'm sticking to the standard dump position on the break side.
I still see the one thing I hate: A dormant cutting lane. I hate it when I get the disc after a nice up-line and the one thing I see is one of the freshmen (I'm not going to mention any names) making a horizontal cut into the lane, and then deep, but completely covered still. I know he's a freshman, but he should know better. The disc doesn't leave my hand until about stall 5 or 6, and half of the time its for a dump pass. Honestly, I don't complete much upfield throws.
I may be going to NUTC for the summer. If that fails, I'll take up Skylands. Then again, NUTC is only a week. Skylands is all summer. I really want to get good, so I'm willing to travel or pay money for a good camp.
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Maybe Porter was trying to go hard on you, to make things difficult.
As for setting up dump cuts on the open side, that is sometimes the correct thing to do, but you have to do it right. If your defender poaches off of you, the handler should just give you the disc--a free reset is a great thing. Take what the defense gives you, and then you will have a couple seconds to make an unmarked throw.
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