Endzone Offense – Ultimate Project #5

4 August 2011

In episode #5 of Ultimate Project, Michael shows several examples of good endzone offense and how they are good examples based on excellent execution.

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Land on One Foot

Posted by Brian Lo

Catching,Offense,Practice

3 August 2011

I remember a long time ago reading an article of Parinella’s somewhere where he explained a better way to toe the line is to only keep one foot down to maximize your reach rather than trying to dig both feet in. Such a simple tip, and it reminded me of my days before ultimate. Before frisbee, my previous love was volleyball. I used to subscribe to a volleyball magazine and there were always these quick 1 page articles with a handy little nugget of wisdom (think Zip’s Tips minus the sandwich eating suggestions).

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Using Statistics to Improve Your Game

Posted by Stephen Winters

Psychology

25 July 2011

A couple of months ago, I developed a paradigm for ultimate frisbee statistics. The goal of the paradigm was to capture all of the qualitatively distinct events in a game of ultimate. I’ve scored a few games with this system and thought I would share the results with the visitors to this site, just in case anybody out there might be interested in them.
For starters, you’re welcome to check out a box score for the Furious George vs. NexGen game that took place last week (and which can be seen in its entirety on ultimaterob.com) here: http://www.basesproduced.com/ultimate/nexgenfurious.html

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Throw It Early

Posted by Brian Lo

Psychology,Throwing

17 July 2011

To follow up on my post Checking Your Shoulder – Buttonhook, let’s talk about when to throw to those cuts. In general, you want to put the disc up as early as possible.

There are a lot of factors involved in decision making, but in an ideal world, you want to be releasing your throw after the cutter has planted and has started their first step back toward you. Putting the disc up early has various benefits:

Maximizes yardage on the incut. The longer you wait, the closer to you the cutter gets and the less yardage gained on their incut.

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Rob McLeod to Compete in the 2011 World Flying Disc Championships – Global TV Calgary

Posted by Ultimate Rob

Videos

14 July 2011

Robert McLeod, an ultimate frisbee player and coach from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, will be travelling to Fort Collins, Colorado on July 18 to compete in the 2011 WFDF World Flying Disc Championships.

McLeod, who has been throwing frisbees for 11 years, is one of two Canadians travelling to Colorado to compete. This will be his first time competing in a Flying Disc event, and this being the World Championships, an event held every 4 years.