Monday 25 January 2010, Garscube, Outdoor
Thanks to everyone who came, we’re looking better every week. This evening we concentrated on playing good defence, in particular defending against cutters and marking out the right areas.
Marking Cutters:
The danger zone is the area directly in front of the thrower on the open side, this is the area not covered by the force and where you will get no help from other team members. Your default position should be to position yourself between your mark and the danger zone. Take a look at the presentation below:
Man Defence – part one.
Man Defence – part two.
Important points:
- Stand a few steps off your marker between them and the danger zone. If they are much faster think about positioning yourself where you can still beat them to where they want to receive the disc.
- Stand with your feet pointed in the direction your marker wants to run. Accelerate as they accelerate to maintain the gap between you. If you remain flat footed they will run straight by you.
- listen for “up” calls and make sure you know when the disc moves and hence when the danger zones change.
Marking out dump cuts:
- When the force is away from you then protect up the line cuts by standing upfield of the dump position.
- When the force is towards you the danger throw is the swing pass, you can afford to mark the dump much closer. You may choose to poach in the throwing lane for the first few seconds of a stall count to stop flow before closing in on the dump.
Take a look at these situations:
Same time next week!
