This drill is also described in Travis Norsen’s “The Ultimate Resource”, it’s a keep-disc variation designed to get players to bounce the disc off the sidelines quickly by staying out wide and facing inwards, as well as practicing quick disc movement, decision making and throwing under pressure.
In this video, Noah takes a look at GB vs New Zealand at U24s back in 2023. New Zealand displayed a potent deep game at the beginning of this game and throughout the tournament, particularly with impressive receiver Finn Collins. If you look at the stats it’s clear that New Zealand’s male matching players ran the show; GB recognised that, and adjusted by having a female matching poach in the deep space. This completely destroyed New Zealand’s offensive flow, and is a good lesson in exploiting teams that play disproportionately through just a few players on their team – which is especially prevalent in mixed ultimate.
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.
Simón Ramírez Ortiz from team Colombia talks us through one of the best sequences of dribbling ever seen on the biggest stage in the world – the Semi Final of World Games 2022. For content on how to drill these skills, see Sai’s Training video on Patreon – 2-line Up-line Drill. We have more content recorded with Sai coming soon. Follow him on Instagram @sairamirezortiz
This is a quick drill for training give-go double dribble technique, quick hands, and disc fluency. Players are challenged to think on their feet whilst sustaining flow. Full video available to Training Tier Patrons.
This is a quick drill for training give-go double dribble technique, quick hands, and disc fluency. Players are challenged to think on their feet whilst sustaining flow. Full video available to Training Tier Patrons.
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.
At the recent Disc-In camp, Valeria Cardenas and Felix Shardlow teamed up for a presentation about the Cardenas sisters and their unique style. We took a look at a selection of videos which Valeria had picked out, and talked about topics ranging from give-go technique against a mark, hucking, the benefit of no-pivot throws and pivot throws, fielding the pull, the contrasting styles between the US teams and Colombia, and more. Full video available to Training Tier patrons.
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.