Happy Thanksgiving. I am giving thanks for defense, one of my greatest joys in ultimate. Most teams don’t give defensive strategy much thought. It’s man-force-forehand and maybe a zone. It’s…
The ecology of Ultimate offenses is in a state of flux. After years of horizontal stack monoculture, we are seeing an increase in teams running vertical stack. All four of…
In my recent write-up on Nationals, I stepped in it with this line: “A fundamental element of the Condor’s zone strategy (the originators of the 2-handler set) is to spread…
I’ve stumbled back from Sarasota with a head full of thoughts and ideas and impressions. I went as a broadcaster working on the NexGen live feed, so while I spent…
Regionals and Nationals is the season for throwing games. Thrown games at Regionals and Nationals?! Not every team is trying to win. At Regionals, some teams are content to lose…
Revolver is the putative favorite to win this year in Sarasota. As defending champs, they are sitting on a 33-1 record (with that loss well avenged) and are peaking at…
I was in Burlington this past weekend to watch NW Regionals. A better journalist would have followed the main action and the main story line; I followed my heart. I…
A few years back I started playing city league soccer with a bunch of Sockeye guys. I had played as a kid and though I loved it, I drifted away. …
If you spend any time reading rec.sport.disc, you quickly run into Toad Leber. Aptly nicknamed, Toad is widely reviled as one of the greatest trolls on a message board full…