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Preventative vs. Deceptive

by Brett Matzuka

The most common mark you see on the frisbee field is what I would define as a preventative mark. The mark has each arm extended out fully, explicitly placed to take away a specific throw. This is a useful mark as it does prevent the intended throws and it is seen at every level of frisbee (see photo 1). However, though it is useful, it has certain disadvantages. It allows the thrower to know which throws you are trying to take away before they even attempt to throw or fake. This will allow the thrower to find the gaps in the mark and exploit them. Looking over the Japanese mark, you can see that the thrower has yet to initiate a throwing motion, or fake, and the mark already has her arms fully extended. The thrower can now find the gaps and use these for release points in her throw.















What I find helps to apply more pressure to throwers on most levels is what I would call a deceptive mark. Instead of fully extending your arms out in a way that gives the thrower knowledge on what you are trying to prevent, keep your arms closer to your sides, ready to pounce out once the thrower has committed to a throwing motion. As can be seen, Thomas Ward of NC State, and Ring of Fire, has his arms close to his sides and ready to strike once the thrower has committed to an option. Since they are tight to his side while the thrower is not in a throwing motion, this does not allow the thrower to find holes and gaps in the arms to exploit as before. While it does not guarantee that you will prevent the respective throw you are trying to stop every time as the previously mentioned mark will (having your arm constantly up to prevent a high release will certainly stop it, but may give up other throws), it will force the thrower to work harder to get a throw off (they may try to throw a inside break backhand and your hand appears, which makes them work harder by faking multiple times to get the option they want). In general, a foot block is not earned by constantly holding your foot in the air where you think they will release it, but by executing right when they enter into their throwing motion. This same idea can be utilized with your arms, and is useful, to apply more pressure to the thrower.































Other great tips from this Issue on Marking: Defending the Area Around the Thrower, Tricks of the Trade! , and of course Angles.

You're goin to like the way you look...I guarantee it

Still waiting on 5ultimate to get back with modded mock up b/c we didn't account for their patch on the jersey.

(black) Shorts will have big jimi on the side.

subject to change

Jerseys

Number on front of shorts or front of jersey?

End of Fall Meeting Follow Up

Hey Guys,

First off, it was great meeting the few new guys that came to the meeting yesterday. Of course I'll be talking to Lu and others to learn exactly what happened in the fall and what needs work, but the meeting was a nice way to generally recap how the season went and teach me what we need to focus on in the Spring. For those of you that didn't make it to the meeting, I understand it's finals time and some of you may have already gone home, however something I want to emphasize now is that everyone will be held accountable for their actions this Spring. This includes attendance to meetings/practice/workouts, logging your workouts on the spread sheet, and the effort/dedication/focus you show during practices. I didn't get any emails from people telling me why they couldn't come to the meeting, which is really lame since it's so easy to shoot an email, even if the excuse is weak. We'll let it slide this time, but come spring there shouldn't be any excuses of "I have to study for my exam tomorrow" or "My girlfriend needs help on her homework" Get your work/girlfriend done early and come to practices/workouts ready to work your ass off :P

That aside, I'm PUMPED for this Spring season. You guys won a tournament and had a great performance at Brisk Winds! That's sick and it's a great place to build from. However I heard several things need a lot of work. Our Defense sucks balls, our marks are broken too easily, and therefore we rely way too much on our opponent's turnovers and our O-line to win games. That's bullshit. We're not going to make a dent at sectionals if we're not the ones creating D's. We've had some solid Fall performance yes, but there still are blemishes against two of our biggest sectional rivals: Columbia and Rutgers. My friend at Rutgers told me that he punted the disc as hard as he could after their first score against us and moments like that and those results should fire up each and everyone one of you to work harder this winter break and spring. We can be friends off the field, but teams like those look forward to beating us. They want to embarrass us. Fuck that.

I believe we can beat every team in our section and it's going to start with conditioning and dedication. In the next few days Lu and I will talk and I'll to send out workout groups, which will be headed by one group leader. Every player is responsible for logging his own workouts on the spreadsheet during and after break and the group leader will be responsible for checking up on his group. He will then send a weekly email to the entire listserve reporting on his group, highlighting who was slacking and who was doing well.

It is necessary to be running, lifting, strengthening your core, and doing stairs during break. I'm going to set a goal for everyone to meet right now. You should be running 2-3 miles at a fast pace (8+) on a treadmill every other day during this break (or full sets of stairs). If you can't run that fast, work up to it. We want fast pace running and sprinting, not long marathon runners(lookin at you, Pat). I'm bad at setting up lifting regimes, but if you have access to weights this break, use them. If you need help email Nova within the next week figuring out lifting or running regimes. Lastly, you should be doing sit ups and pushups/planks everyday to help your core. These are easy to do every morning when you wake up and before you shower at night.

So finish up your finals, log your workouts, expect some future emails about jerseys, workout groups, and I'll be sending out certain strategic stuff (basic playbook stuff) that you all should have learned before Spring starts.

~Q

My Winter Break goal/plan

Seeing as the Metro East is windy as shit in the spring I will be doing 2 things all break: getting in shape and throwing ONLY and I repeat, ONLY flick hucks into the wind. (if i'm just tossing in a small park-I will only throw IO flicks)

What will you do to make this team better this upcoming season?

~Q

Jerseys

Hope you guys realize how much money I'm fronting for these...and how much time Ryan and I spend thinking about the designs.

Hugs and Kisses
Q

FInished my hardest week this semester

And so I relax by watching this great vid of Ring's run at UCC:

Club Natties 09 - RING of FIRE from Chris Casey on Vimeo.

Spring

We gonna bring it.