Thoughts.

As winter break swiftly approaches for those of us who work at schools, I thought I’d go back over some of my older posts–I have a feeling that with the influx of new readers this blog has seen over the past couple months, it’s likely that some of the stuff I started posting in the summer, when I changed from simply recapping my ultimate experience to (attempting to) share how I’ve learned to play, has been overlooked.

I’m not sure what the best way to work around this and make the blog more archive-accessible is (I’ll likely continue experimenting with format), as my general goal is to make this site a resource as well as a blog (I’d welcome any ideas to that end–blogspot’s whole scrolling-through-pages isn’t terribly efficient, nor is the archive).

So I’ll try and link up some of the posts I think are most useful/relevant, sorted by category. Let me know if you find this helpful. And, feel free to comment with anything you think I’ve overlooked.

Throwing

• Being Quick on the Catch-Throw Turnaround. Not sure, but this might have been the first post about ultimate that wasn’t strictly focused on myself.
• On Balance
• Grip, part 1 (Part 2, the video (much more helpful) here)
• Arm Action (also a video)
• Throw Convincing, Effective Fakes
• Disc Placement (not just throwing to space, but throwing to space with purpose)
• On Hammers and Throwing to Space
• Forehand Hucks (see also Scapular Loading, aka the shoulder jerk)
• The Windup
• A Throwing Checklist for Warmups
• More on Faking (this also reads a little unclearly; I’ll revisit at some point when I can phrase it better)
• Throw Off-Handed; you’ll appreciate your on-handed ones more and have a better perspective to teach from.
• It’s the little things in day-to-day life.
• Throwing with Touch?

Cutting

• Around this time last year I made a post about the notion of “Threat Points” when cutting–this is, more or less, another way to try to phrase what becomes an intuitive sense of how to see and attack space as a cutter. I think the post perhaps comes off a bit esoteric, but maybe it’ll help provide a framework for better explanation.
• In my opinion, one of my most useful posts is the one I wrote this past spring about cutting schematics. As a deprived B-teamer, and later as a budding A-teamer, (and a lazy student) I often spent time in lecture drawing up various situations and playing them out mentally and on paper, from the O and the D perspective.
• Create Space
• The Juke
• It’s Stoppin’(sadly, the UV link I referred to is now broken)
• Making Adjustments (secondary cuts)
• Use Your Opponent’s Acceleration
• More on field sense.
• Being a a primary cutter vs. a fill cutter (keep your man busy)
• Expanding your repetoire
• On endzone cutting