Felix reacts to Ryan’s ‘8 Secrets to Longer Forehands in Ultimate Frisbee’ video
/0 Comments/in Technique, Video /by Felix ShardlowFelix reacts to Frank’s ‘Triple Threat applied to Ultimate Frisbee’ video
/1 Comment/in Strategies, Technique, Video /by Felix ShardlowFelix reacts to Frank’s new video on the Triple Threat Principle – Let’s Be Frank EP2, and digests the key parts of the video.
Analysis: 7 Revolver turnovers vs New York’s poaching defence – 2018 Men’s Pro Championship Final
/0 Comments/in Analysis, Video /by Felix Shardlow7 of Revolver’s 14 turnovers against New York in the 2018 US Men’s Pro Championship Final, broken down and analysed by Felix.
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Analysis Compilation – AU22 Finals 2018
/0 Comments/in Analysis, Video /by Felix ShardlowClips from analysis used on the live stream of the Australian Ultimate U22 Nationals Finals, plus unseen extras.
Extended Analysis – Blue Devils 2018 Live Analysis Session
/0 Comments/in Analysis, Hexagon Ultimate, Video /by Felix ShardlowRecording of a Live Online Video Analysis session between felixultimate.com and the Blue Devils U22 2018 Australia ultimate frisbee team.
Blue Devils had been learning Hex Offence, with a few players having played it before on club/uni teams.
Analysis / discussion – 2 times the stadium bigscreen settled foul calls in the EUCF Final 2018
/0 Comments/in Analysis, Video /by Felix ShardlowAnalysis: Excerpts from Live Analysis with Blue Devils U22 (Victoria State) Australian team playing Hex
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Hex Movement Decision Tree
/3 Comments/in Analysis, Hexagon Ultimate, Strategies, Video /by Felix Shardlow
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Hex Movement Decision Tree: Brief explanation / shortened transcript of video
The way I’ve been looking at offence recently is to break it into three elements; Movement, Structure, and Technique.
This decision tree is a guideline for how to sustain and generate movement of the disc. The left side pertains to movement of the disc, and the right side is more focused on players who are off-disc.
If you have the disc in your hands then you have three questions; Is someone open in front of you?, Is the previous thrower open?, and Can you continue the path of the disc? If the answer is Yes to any of these three questions then you take the open pass, and look for the return pass, before returning to the start of the decision tree. If the return pass is successful then you enter a loop on the top left of the tree, which is where give-go / dribbling moves thrive.
If the answer to any of the three ‘open’ questions is Maybe, then you fake. The answer could be ‘maybe’ because you’re not confident with the distance or type of throw the option is asking of you, or because the defender is half-covering the throw, or for any reason you’re not happy with the option – in this case, fake, and return to asking “Is someone open in front of you?” – which may be the player you just faked an option to.
In some situations it’s better to look to continue the path of the disc before looking back to the previous thrower. Looking back to previous thrower lends itself to a more dribbling-style of Hex, but looking first to continue the path of the disc fits in quite nicely with techniques players have learnt from conventional offences.
If all then ‘open’ answers are ‘No’, then you should face the centre of the space. In Hex, this means you face where the Hat position is (the central player), and you should have all your team mates within your field of view. At this point you return to asking yourself if anyone is open in front of you.
Let’s say you go for the return pass and don’t get the disc back into your hands. The first question to ask yourself is ‘Am I in good hex shape?‘. The details about hex shape / structure are defined in another video, but if you decide you are not in good hex shape then you should reposition – with urgency. Repositioning moves are like cuts, and simply repositioning may well provide the thrower with a viable passing option.
If you are in good hex shape, ask yourself if you are open. If you are, communicate with the thrower by gesticulation or vocalisation, to let the thrower know you are a potential option for them to hit or fake to.
If you aren’t open, see if the thrower is looking at you. If they are, you should try to generate an option for them to either hit or fake to – by moving, or by gesticulating towards space. This will create further options for your team mates.
If you’re in good hex shape, not open, and the thrower is not looking at you, then you should see whether you can create useful space for a team mate. This means looking around to take note of your team mates positions and their defenders relative positions, and working out whether you moving in any direction could create a space, or occupy another defender, which would be useful for your team mate. If you can, then you should generate this option.
If none of these things are the case, then you should chill – don’t stress or feel pressure to create an option, because if everyone on your team is going through the same decision process then the thrower will be faking to half-options, looking at players to generate options, and so on, and the options will come. Continue monitoring the situation to see if you can create useful space for a team mate, to make sure you’re in good hex shape (as a team), and to see if you’re free or if the thrower is looking at you, but aim to become comfortable being in the position of sustaining offensive possession as a team.
Analysis: Live Stream with Oakland playing Vertical Stack
/0 Comments/in Analysis, Video /by Felix ShardlowExcerpt:
Oakland’s coach Valerio got in touch about reviewing some footage of his team. They play conventional offence and defence – here is an excerpt from a Live Streamed Analysis session I ran with them.
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