Monday, December 28, 2015

Downfield Cutting Notes 1

General Considerations:

- Your strengths
Do you have any athletic traits that you can exploit while cutting?  I.E. are you quick?  Tall? Strong? What kind of cuts can you make well?

- Abilities of the Thrower
Can the thrower make your defender respect your deep moves?  Your breakside moves?

- Your position relative to the thrower
What throws does your defender have to defend?  What's realistic?

- Your position relative to other players
Can't run your defender through picks to get open, that's illegal.  Is it your turn to cut?  Is there space for you?  Can you make space?

- Positioning of the defender
How is your defender setting up on you?  As in, are they under, deep, or even?  How many steps?  How are their hips angled?  Are they giving something away, or are they very tight?

- Abilities of the defender
What athletic traits do they have?  What about relative to your athletic traits?

- Tendencies of the defender
What does the defender tend to do in response to you making moves?  How can you make them commit?  Can you beat them with a secondary move?

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Style Notes:

Momentum cutting: Trying to create a momentum advantage over your defender by making them commit their hips.

Information cutting: trying to create an information/sight advantage over you defender by getting behind them or forcing them to not see the disc.  Attack your defender's back.

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Move Notes:

Power Move: Run in a straight line to an open spot.

Hesitation move: Establish momentum -> stutter step to fake a momentum change -> continue with original momentum.

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Mentality Notes:

Mind 1/Mind 2 interaction.  Goal is to be able to cut based on feel and instinct, hind brain is too slow.

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Questions:

Abilities of the defender pt 2:
How do you cut against someone more athletic than you?  Someone quicker than you?  Someone more explosive than you?

Tendencies of the defender pt 2:
What do you look for/how do you discern what your defender's tendencies are?  Can this be categorized in some way?  Try to make this more digestible.

Learning moves:
What's a good way to practice different kinds of moves?  How do we build the ability to cut on feel and instinct?  Are there habits within this that can be deliberately practiced, i.e. how to create a good momentum advantage (4-5 hard steps?)?


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