Lecture by Tiina Booth during the Ultimate Players and Coaches Conference.
Practice this season?
Things we're going to do:
1. Push ourselves.
No more "nah I'm saving my energy for the scrim at the end". No, at practice we push ourselves to the point so at the end of practice, we're exhausted. Use up all your energy during practice, every drill, every scrim, every day.
2. Have a schedule.
Work on one thing at a time. Things Watchung needs to work on: Everything.
Throws, Offense, Defense, Receiving, etc.
We'll work out a schedule so we'll probably work on offense one week, defense one week, and so on.
3. Stop looking upfield so much.
Stop. Look upfield for FOUR STALL COUNTS. Stop looking to make the huck or the glory throw. You know who you are.
4. Make better judgments on the dump/swing
Its really not that hard to make a dump pass, so stop looking off the dump if he's not COMPLETELY open. Once the dump throws his defender off, even if he's not exactly "open" yet, just throw the goddamn disc with a pop or a quick release backhand. The dump can run to it and get it while the defender is still adjusting his momentum.
5. Stop looking upfield so much
6. Stop looking upfield so much
7. Stop looking upfield so fucking much. WHATS WRONG WITH MOVING THE DISC BACK AND AROUND?!
8. Play more conservatively
In a sense this ties in with STOP LOOKING UPFIELD SO MUCH. Gaining yards isn't as important as keeping the disc in our hands. Now, I'm not saying don't take risks, but on a risk-taking level, Watchung is about an 8. We need to bring that down to a 4 or a 5. So STOP LOOKING UPFIELD SO MUCH.
9. Work an end-zone efficiently.
I'm going to say this bluntly: Porter's end-zone strategy is retarded. Make a diagonal cut to the cone? No. An end-zone strategy is an isolated horizontal cut, if looked off, then one should look to the dump and swing, THEN there should be a diagonal cut to the corner. We're not just making diagonal cuts to the corners like we're playing a fucking full field vertical stack in a small-ass endzone. Excuse my language, but that is retarded.
10. Work hard, play harder.
You're the only person that can make yourself better. If you're not willing to work, then don't expect to get better. Earn your spot on the team, and earn the right to say that you're a good player.
1 comment:
Re: #4. Making that throw to space makes it much easier for the dump cutter to get open. Meaning, he doesn't have to be as obviously open for you to throw it--he just needs a step or two on his guy to run down a disc that's put out to the space in front of him. Make sure to swing the disc every time you dump backwards, otherwise you're losing both field position and momentum, and get nothing but a new count.
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