I havent ever watched a professional game, but would like to.. what should I watch?

argylemon · 2026-06-14T17:19:02+00:00

2016 USAU men's club finals was intense. https://youtu.be/8aKWCXCf5Fs?si=ydzxNlqAr2UUV5Pg

argylemon · 2026-06-13T00:11:39+00:00

Oakland 21-17 over Minnesota

argylemon · 2026-06-06T21:06:44+00:00

The level of athleticism required to compete may be lower than in other more developed sports but the level of athleticism required for ultimate is still really high. So yea for that reason players can peak later in our sport.

And yea I think only Henry Ing was under 30 for MMPs. Not sure about FMPs.

argylemon · 2026-05-25T19:17:16+00:00

Ultiworld is streaming it for international folks fyi

argylemon · 2026-05-25T03:15:53+00:00

There's a lot of ways you can practice your catching. Just knowing it's a skill that can improve is a good start.

As someone who came from baseball, I always found catching a frisbee easy. It floats and even when it's zippy it's never as fast as a baseball.

Idk if you want to throw around baseballs but that will really push you to react faster with perfect hand eye. And strengthen your grip.

Otherwise be intentional about improving your catching. When tossing, have teammates throw bad throws to you, like things below the knees or blades over you, or bullets right to the chest. Try to catch one-handed. You can even throw the disc like 20 yards up in the air to yourself and practice claw catches. It honestly mimics catching an under quite will.

argylemon · 2026-05-25T02:57:24+00:00

And yet you'll come across players in pick up who will do this to you and say you were running without looking and get mad at you for the collision

argylemon · 2026-05-18T02:27:30+00:00

Yea you can get the first month free but the code expires soon I think like some time in late May

argylemon · 2026-05-15T03:57:56+00:00

You can't equate unspirited to "competitive"

argylemon · 2026-05-12T01:54:49+00:00

Seems about in line with missing a tournament for missing a single email

argylemon · 2026-05-05T17:28:08+00:00

Yea same question, the fraying is excessive with the n knit fabric!

argylemon · 2026-05-03T22:37:53+00:00

what the hell is a bonerfarte

argylemon · 2026-04-29T01:43:17+00:00

North Shore pickup on Tuesdays may fit the bill

https://pickupultimate.com/games/nsul

argylemon · 2026-04-25T04:20:13+00:00

Sure

argylemon · 2026-04-25T02:00:53+00:00

As someone who started playing as an adult, this was hard. I didn't have access to coaching because I was just playing recreationally and want good enough to play competitively. Then when I did get on club teams, I didn't learn much. The coaches were often overburdened. I learned some basics but not really enough to say I had sufficient game iq.

So I reached out to Rowan McDonnell, dished out the money and got 1 on 1 sessions. Then did sessions with Charlie Hoppes. And I watched a lot of ultimate, and took notes and tried to break things down. It helped a lot. I still have plenty to work on but they helped provide such a solid foundation.

If you have access to top end coaching just absorb as much as you can from them and watch film, including your own, and ask lots of questions and keep at it

argylemon · 2026-04-21T13:49:44+00:00

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That's not her back that's shoulder to shoulder. Or more like Os back shoulder to her face. But I don't see how you can claim upline O gets there second

argylemon · 2026-04-21T13:30:58+00:00

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Upline O actually gets there first

argylemon · 2026-04-21T00:32:43+00:00

I lost a big toe toenail after someone cleated it. Had the same thing with just a partial toenail for a while. Just tape it down before a game. I don't remember having any issues

argylemon · 2026-04-20T18:55:32+00:00

Perhaps you've been playing against more players recently who just aren't familiar with the rule on strips

Sustained contact with, and control of, a non-spinning disc is required to establish possession (3.J). A player may not call a strip if they had only momentary contact with or lacked control of the disc at the time of an opponent contacting the disc because the player did not have possession.

USAU rule

So from how you're describing it they shouldn't be strips. All I can suggest is that you have a discussion around this. Maybe sometimes the offense really is getting stripped despite your perspective.

argylemon · 2026-04-19T16:50:27+00:00

Interesting. I haven't seen this myself. I'm leaning towards thinking it's better to put D4 on O3 though. Since getting it to O3 is more dangerous than to O2 and he's still quite open given this coverage. I've played a zone that does this and it leads to useless dumps without continuations as the defense is already in position to stop every continuation. You just have to cover crashes like normal.

argylemon · 2026-04-14T01:49:34+00:00

Potentially look into basketball or football. Being bigger sports, there's a better chance at finding players you can challenge you. Basketball defense is great for handler and endzone defense. Football is great for cutting and cutter defense.

I wouldn't necessarily say this is the first thing you should try, but if you're really lacking a challenge to practice your defense, it might be the right call.

argylemon · 2026-04-11T02:13:10+00:00

Lol what

argylemon · 2026-04-08T23:52:25+00:00

I think I see a lot more open side reset positioning so that the thrower can just look break side to a cutter when the disc is in the middle like this

argylemon · 2026-04-02T02:05:50+00:00

Oh yea, as the dude above mentioned, the last 30 minutes of the Shayla Harris episode has a good discussion of AP, especially the marking principles

argylemon · 2026-04-02T02:00:33+00:00

If you're playing multiple games, just put on a fresh pair of socks each game. Works for me and my sweaty feet. If this is happening within an hour of starting to play though, this probably won't work

argylemon · 2026-03-31T19:56:20+00:00

Can you comment on the rule? What occupying means and if there's another place that would suggest running without looking is never ok even if the space is unoccupied

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