Archive for the Category Frisbee

I recently played in a game of ultimate where we had 5 players and the other team had 10 or 11. Unsurprisingly we lost, but still managed to score 4 points and stretch the game out to time cap. While we played well, we struggled to score points and had to make our [...]

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22.11.08 | Comments Off

1-3-3 Zone Offense

Continuing from a previous post this describes how a 1-3-3 offense formation can be adopted to play against a zone.
As shown in the below figure offense (blue) again has an offensive formation based around two groups of three receivers and a single handler/dump player. Defense (red) has a standard 3 person [...]

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14.11.08 | 2

1-3-3 Offense

Every ultimate frisbee team I’ve ever played on has structured its offense around 3 handlers, 2 middles and 2 longs. Sometimes it works well. But often it results in a lot of handlers standing around the disc getting in the way, the middles not knowing what to do and the longs being too [...]

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16.03.07 | 1

Tasmanian Frisbee Stuff

Just got back from a great tournament in Tasmania. Typical frisbee tournament though – I saw the fields, the pub, the youth hostel and the airport. Oh, and the roads in between. Not much time for sight seeing elsewhere.
I was playing on Hot Chilli, the second Chilli team. We came 3rd [...]

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