Turn Break-Side

In fairness to the people who read this but don't play Ultimate, I will be labeling ideas that only an Ultimate player would understand:

--Ultimate Related


When you catch a straight in cut and decide to turn up field, there are two ways to do this: turn to the open side and turn to the break side. Most people turn open side and I just don't know why. Turning to the break side causes your defender to respect the around break a lot more in addition to allowing you to look at that around throw before the mark is on. I find that when I turn break side to start, I have a much easier time breaking the mark throughout the count.

Josh "Forge" Nickerson on the Air Squids is particularly good at catching a force-forehand in cut and turning right so that he can throw a break backhand. Upon further inspection of his cutting, it appears that if he knows he is open on an in cut he will make his last 2 steps such that his body is at a 15° facing the break side to facilitate this break-side turning. He is really good at it and it is hugely advantageous to our offense.

Just to clarify this advice is not hard fast when you are catching in cuts that are not straight up and down the fiend. On these cuts that swing the disc side to side, it can be good to turn to complement the direction of the flow of the disc. But I should also point out that sometimes its good to pivot against the momentum of a swing to get a easy break off: the D assumes you are gonna pivot with the swing and will run past you.



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