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The Huddle | Team USA On Specialities

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:28:30 -0400

Team USA leaves today for the other side of the Pacific, where they will defend the World Games Ultimate title that the USA won in Germany in 2005. We were lucky enough to find ten members of Team USA who could answer questions about their specialties.

2009 Nationals: Q&A with UPenn Venus Coach Marc Stachowski

frho — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:21:39 -0400

UPenn was the story of this year's College Championships. Here's the first part of a two-part Q&A with the Metro East coach of the year, Marc Stachowski.

The Huddle | Race In Ultimate

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:24:29 -0400

[W]e asked several members of Downtown Brown, a touring Ultimate team comprised of players from many minority backgrounds. Besides being phenomenal players, this team plays in tournaments like Fools West and Potlatch as a way to make issues of race more accessible and to foster discussion in our community.

2009 Nationals (Oregon Fugue's account)

frho — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:43:30 -0400

Lou Burruss, coach of Oregon Fugue, provides his account of 2009 Nationals.

Force Flick: Nationals - Stanford

Mackey — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:51:30 -0400

Stanford was a game filed some of the most intense highs I’ve experienced in frisbee. Stanford kept things close early on, like most teams. We had our first break at 4-3 and then continued on a 5-2 run to go up 9-5. Stanford was the first team to punish us with their handler offense. They rarely throw downfield to cutters save for Tom James – their Callahan nominee.

The State of HS Ultimate in the US

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:02:23 -0400

Nice breakdown of the advancement of ultimate at the high school level. "I was poking around score reporter and i figured it would be interesting to look at a map of the current state of high school ultimate in the US."

iUltiStats Beta Testing - Thoughts.

Mackey — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:51:45 -0400

I've finally finished a beta of my ultiStats iPhone app...I'm looking for you to find bugs in the program, suggest design changes that might make it easier to use or look better, or even suggest features that I have not considered that you might like to see.

iPhone App: UPA Rules

Dave — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:11:03 -0400

I don’t know about you, but I never have my UPA handbook available to settle disputes on the field, but I always have my iPhone. If you play Ultimate Frisbee this is for you, it explains all of the rules of the game, in a simple easy to use app. Best of all it is FREE!

The Huddle | The Comeback

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:25:06 -0400

You're down 11-7, game to 15. You're defense needs to score four times to tie the game up. How do you manage a comeback? How do you call lines? What do you tell yourself and your players?

The Need for Better Scorekeeping - Thoughts.

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:26:25 -0400

We need more descriptive score keeping than the simple "X-X" final total. In much the same way that baseball scores by innings, or tennis has set-by-set counts (or really any sport has at least some temporal division), ultimate needs something more robust to help keep the fan clued in.

The Huddle | The Layout Block

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:06:20 -0400

You've trained, you've watched film, and you know your opponent. Maybe you've been waiting all game, all season, or your entire Ultimate life to take a layout block from that player in a big game. Like hitting a walk-off home-run. Like marching around your hometown with the Stanley Cup in your Radio Flyer.

Rerun: Rules for cutting

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:03:00 -0400

Rules for cutting was originally posted on July 7, 2005. This was a more concrete set of rules than the famous rules of "take what they give you, fake them into giving you what you want, fake until they give you something."

The BEST drill for players at all levels

Dave — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:33:56 -0400

There are a handful of drills that I frequently use while coaching but none of them do I use more frequently and that have a higher return on time spent than the three-person marking drill.

Mechanical cutting

Dave — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:24:31 -0400

I noticed that some of the tryouts this weekend cut very mechanically. They might fake, but then their actions do not depend at all on what their defender does. They don't even appear to be watching the defender at all.

The Ultiverse | Will Neff

Dave — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:04:35 -0400

In this episode I talk to my pick for the 2009 Men’s Division Callahan award, Will Neff. We talk about how Will got started in the world of Ultimate, his favorite Ultimate moments, and his thoughts on the future of the sport.

Training the lunge for better throwing

Mackey — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:04:50 -0400

I'm not talking the standard step-forward, push back up type, I'm talking stepping at angles and especially stepping sideways. You'll see a noticeable improvement in your pivoting speed, which will in turn allow you to develop more effective fakes and generally become more capable with the disc in your hands.

The College Championships - An Early Look

Dave — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:51:26 -0400

Seedings are coming out later today but I want to take a quick look at the teams that comprise the Nationals field. Before I do so, I want to revisit my predictions from last weekend's Regionals.

The Huddle | Zone Offense

Dave — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:52:25 -0400

Bad weather? Unstoppable man-to-man O? Directional wind? Change of pace? Sounds like a zone is coming. Like a great football team that can't kick field goals, zone offense can be a weakness that dooms your season. We asked our authors for their thoughts on constructing a zone offense, both from a practice perspective as well as how they think about in-game adjustments

UPA Board Blog: Officials in Ultimate

Dave — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:38:47 -0400

As many of you know, the UPA has been experimenting with the role of Observers at several college and club tournaments as part of its strategic plan. The role of Observers, or more generally, of any type of “officials” in our sport, has long been a contentious one.

National Ultimate Media Panel's Womens Top 20 - May 4, 2009

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:28:27 -0400

Below you will find the National Ultimate Media Panel's Womens Top 20 for the weeks beginning May 4, 2009.