4/3/2006 - Back to Business

Just a quick post here.

Today was the first day back from spring break, and it was the first day of daylight savings. Both caused problems for the team. Since it was the first day back from spring break, most people were sluggish from the short, but seven day long break from any ultimate. Most did not keep up with any running or exercise. However, it did not take too long to get warmed up. The cold weather and rain actually caused more problems as it slowed movements and caused unforced drops. The daylight savings caused problems with practice. Moving the clock forward changed the hours of the lights and limited what the team could do at practice. The low light forced the team to break up into 3-man teams and practice break-the-mark drills. Not until the lights came on at 7:30pm were we able to finally scrimmage.

Scrimmage focused on perfecting Vertical Stack. A couple variations where thrown in like a reverse angle stack. In this stack, when the disc is trapped on the sideline, the front of the stack will be on far on the break side while the back of teh stack will be on the sideline. Although this seems like it would limit the cuts, it prevents people from clogging and cutting people off. However, cuts in this stack should work because the team has been practicing H stack with straight vertical cuts.

Not much to tell on the game. For the most part, the play was sloppy. The new angle was added because there was so much clogging. However, this could be due to overall sluggishness of the team. For the defense, they would poach more. For the offense, they would cut back into the stack slower or they would not move the stack back when the disc is moved up.

*The only thing I noticed was Scott's play. For his team of lights, he handled the disc first by making hucks and causing the defense to beware of the deep threat. This worked half the time. During the last half, the tactic was altered. Instead of deep hucks, teh disc was swiftly moved up using a dump-swing as the primary offense. During the last few points, the disc was moved up this way with the disc moving to each sideline 5 times before the score was made.