Countering Handler Sag Defence
Mexico U20 Mixed played Hexagon Offence at WJUC 2024, and in this video Felix takes a look at some highlights and then breaks down and analyses a full point played against Austria’s handler-sag defence.
Mexico U20 Mixed played Hexagon Offence at WJUC 2024, and in this video Felix takes a look at some highlights and then breaks down and analyses a full point played against Austria’s handler-sag defence.
Noah breaks down this visionary poach block by Mica Glass for Rhino in the USAU 2024 Club National Championships.
Patron-only video (any tier): Noah talks through the nuances of poaching in indoor ultimate – “Poaching occurs more frequently and differently compared to outdoor ultimate. I initially made this content to share with the university teams I’m coaching indoor ultimate to – specifically I wanted more people to understand the threat of players occupying or cutting towards the endzone, and show how high level indoor players recognise these threats and give up easier options to protect easy scores.”
If you’re not familiar with indoor ultimate, it’s a really fun watch, you can check out this full game here.
Harper Garvey shares his insights as he analyses several clips of his in-game deep throws – what was the game context, what was going through his mind at the time, and what he thinks of them now.
In this video, Noah looks at how Portland Rhino Slam! used switching and poaching to disrupts PoNY’s side stack flow by exploiting the inactivity of the 3rd handler or shallowest cutter.
For more on back to the attacker marking check out the previous analysis video
For more analysis of PoNY’s big ball woes check out this analysis from LT
A few months back the French U20 team defeated the US to win at the World Junior Ultimate Championships. In this video, Noah takes you through the perfect example of how to buzz switch to mark out upline give-go moves or to block break side flow.
You can watch the full game here
And if you want to learn more about countering handler switching then check out this video
Felix takes a deep, deep dive into footage of Truck’s offence from US Open 2024, in advance of USAU Nationals 2024. Rhino beat Truck in the quarters at Nationals two days after this video was published, and messaged Felix saying they found the clips and concepts in this video helpful.
Colombia are one of the favourites to take gold in the women’s division of this year’s WUC. A big reason for this is their suffocating defense. Noah breaks down two examples of how Colombia approach defending horizontal stacks using a potent mixture of poaching, bracketing and switching.
In this video Felix takes a look at the unconventional moves of Kristýna Tlustá, as she takes unusual options which are shown to be very effective at building flow and maintaining East Block’s offensive attack.