Hi, I’m a new reader of yours and really like your stuff. How can you encourage these things in practice? Can you think of a way to modify rules, etc. to encourage them? Maybe giving points for blocks or something?
Yeah points for blocks can be a great tool to highlight these. I like using cones to divide the pitch into vertical 'thirds' and then I can use rules like no defenders allowed in the far third from the disc, or even just use them for visualisation and feedback.
My hot take (and the theme of my first link): #1 isn't (or perhaps I should say: "shouldn't be") an "advanced" defensive concept. It's just defense. The only thing that matters on defense is getting a turnover before the other team scores. No one gets brownie points for staying arbitrarily close to their matchup for long enough. If the other team scores, you don't get brownie points because it wasn't *your matchup* who scored. Defense is inherently help defense. You have to evaluate the entire offense's best options and take them away.
If they can teach help defense to 12-year-old basketball players, it shouldn't be that hard for college-age frisbee players to learn help defense.
Hi, I’m a new reader of yours and really like your stuff. How can you encourage these things in practice? Can you think of a way to modify rules, etc. to encourage them? Maybe giving points for blocks or something?
Yeah points for blocks can be a great tool to highlight these. I like using cones to divide the pitch into vertical 'thirds' and then I can use rules like no defenders allowed in the far third from the disc, or even just use them for visualisation and feedback.
I ordered your book btw 🙂
Pretty similar to a couple of things I've written:
https://someflow.substack.com/p/defense-is-for-stopping-the-other
https://someflow.substack.com/p/oodles-of-oodas
My hot take (and the theme of my first link): #1 isn't (or perhaps I should say: "shouldn't be") an "advanced" defensive concept. It's just defense. The only thing that matters on defense is getting a turnover before the other team scores. No one gets brownie points for staying arbitrarily close to their matchup for long enough. If the other team scores, you don't get brownie points because it wasn't *your matchup* who scored. Defense is inherently help defense. You have to evaluate the entire offense's best options and take them away.
If they can teach help defense to 12-year-old basketball players, it shouldn't be that hard for college-age frisbee players to learn help defense.