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posted by parinella at 11:38 AM
Zaz and Jim are hosting a blog to discuss "Ultimate Techniques and Tactics," published by Human Kinetics. Ask questions about the book, make recommendations, tell us where we were wrong, let us know where it's ambiguous or unclear.
posted by parinella at 11:38 AM
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Why so harsh on the 3-handler zone O? It's not as if the handlers need to be tethered to the sidelines, dumping and swinging the disc to and fro until the law of averages forces a turnover.
did chase get the disc? please describe the look on his face? Could you use the word exegesis in vol. 2? Re: Hucking. Can zaz rip it? Re: huck drill. it seems like letting the 'd' start so close would condition the thrower to throw to 'less than open' cutters? Or does it provide an object lesson in 'less than open?'
How bout some captions: Your chapter one photo (hanging huck) cries out for commentary...
Re: focus. A caveat for younger readers, don't focus at the expense of those pesky walk/don't walk sign that's only 25 yds away....
Thoughts on Defending a Ho-stack and/or spread?
We go back and forth on shutting down the in and using switches to keep a good deep back or just manning up and straight and dealing with it.. but after 1 or two switches, there are holes everywhere just due to the amount of space on the field and in one on one you end up giving something up as in any one on one matchup.
Any recomendations, or is it completely based on the opponent? (Hucks alot, worry more about switching, uses squirrely in cuts predominatly, cover the ins)
Thanks!
Could you further explain this statement that Idris made on his blog?
“its how the book approaches the game, how it thinks about it which is a drastic change from anything that came before it (other books, rsd, etc).”
I've read the book, but I don't recall thinking that the book's "approach" to the game, in the broader sense, was in some way revolutionary. Can someone qualify this implicit difference for me?
Swing continuation: MDC, you have it almost perfectly, although you won't be able to turn your hips more than "at least downfield". You can do this only when your defender is far enough away from you that he won't be able to block the throw, since you'll have to slow down (if you aren't already moving at a jog pace) in order to shift yourself. The idea is to be able to turn quickly to the continuation without turning your back to the field.
The pressure. recently we have returned home from NSUT (National Students Ultimate Tournament; Finland) being bitten up in 4 games out of 5. We found ourselves in the "Death Pool" and I guess couldn't hanlde the pressure of knowing that we would not win. So after playing first round and being creamed in 3 games of 4, in the next round we could not pull it together and lost it all and as a result place 24 (of 32). How to handle the pressure of a "death pool"?
Thanks.
Yuri
hey Jim,
Some Belgians here, we would like to buy your book. However, there seems to be a problem, the euro currency is not availble in our shoppingcart.
-wouter&peter
ps; Alex (NATO-guy) told us we could learn something from it.
Peter, maybe try Amazon instead of Human Kinetics? I see that the HK site lists it in British pounds but not euros.
JDB, we're just students of the game. More importantly for writing a book, we've both spent a lot of time explaining ultimate, which makes it easier the next time, and also contributes to your own understanding. If you can't explain something, you really don't understand, so it forces you to think about it some more, until you _do_ truly understand it.
Yuri, you learn to handle pressure by being exposed to pressure. If you think your team had problems with choking, try to create high pressure situations in practice (losers run a lot of hard sprints, for instance, or buy beer).
Jim - Very much enjoyed the book, which I shared with a friend who has now moved to NYC...with the book! Anyhow, I'm looking for a drill that might help conceptualize "switching" on defense and was wondering if you had any ideas?
Johnny O
Missoula, MT
Johnny O,
Switching drill: two cutters and two defenders not assigned to either cutter, cutters cut. Can do either cutters from the stack to either side, or (the preferred way) to have both cutters go to the open side (either deep or under).
Bo,
You're probably also going to be playing ultimate on weekends, either practicing or going to tournaments, so Mondays and Fridays should be light days. Generally, the Track workout is one day (say, Tuesday), and the Gym/Plyo/Agility is another day (say, Thursday), giving you four hard workout days per week. The schedule was designed to be in-season.
authors, i suppose your intented use for the book was not that it be a flat surface helpful for rolling splifs. this photo was taken at a university tournament in brussels this past weekend...
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Hi Jim,
My name is Navin, and I've bought your book, thank you and Eric for putting it together.
I've been promoting Ultimate in India where it's picking up. I studied in the 100 year international school in India where Ultimate was first introduced to the country.
I'm based for a while in New York, and was wondering if you ever visit the city, if so, I'd be very grateful if I could get some coaching from you on Ultimate, I'd like to know your rates for coaching.
warm wishes
Navin
Hi Navin,
Thanks for commenting. Good to see ultimate spreading to new places.
Coaching isn't really my game. I'd suggest trying to hook up with one of hte NY-based teams. For online info, check out ultimatetalk.com and the-huddle.org as well as my older posts at parinella.blogspot.com
Jim
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Thanks Jim, for the sites you gave me. I have looked at them and will appy what you and Eric have talked about in your book.
regards
Navin
Was wondering what kinda off-season training, you could recommend to a team that's making progress but is still quiet young and restless?
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