It's not Spring Break yet

One more week before spring break. We're going to keep working on man offense, specifically continuation cuts. For once we get to practice Monday outside! I think we still have the field on Tuesday, let's try to get Kennesaw out for a scrimmage.

Schedule
Monday:
Warmup
5 box drills
10 Throw
1 on 1 defensive coverage
Review Man O
Man O drill - no defense
3 Line Drill
Hander Cut + Dump Swing Drill
Continuation Drill
Individual work
8x20/10 intervals - sprints

Tuesday:
Warmup
10 Throw
Goto Drill
Huddle - Reminder about Man O
Scrimmage
Review Game
8x20/10s intervals - sprints

Thursday:
Warmup
10 Throw
1 on 1 Defensive coverage
Review Man O
Man O drill - no defense
HC + DS Drill
Continuation Drill
3 Line Drill
Individual work
8x20/10s Intervals - sprints

Weekly Schedule and Mudbowl Review

I'll get to the schedule later, but first I'd like to review our performance at Mudbowl. We played really well in horrible weather on Saturday and won our pool. We all figured our pool was pretty weak, but I was just looking at the results and the 2 and 3 seeds from our pool (Alabama and Berry) both won their pre-quarters game to make quarters. We came out a little flat again Sunday, and got beaten by Dayton. Once again we go one and out on Sunday.

In general, I thought the rookies played really well, that we learned a lot, and showed some glimpses of achieving our potential. Our zone O was looking great, our zone D was looking pretty good, but our man O and D suffered from playing so much zone. The reason we lost in the quarters is because Dayton went to man D and we weren't able to move the disc very well. Also, our zone D wasn't working against them, and our man D was bad. We need to get back to basics on man O and D. Also, I've tweaked our man O a little, we're going to go over it this week.

As for particulars, Fox and I reviewed everyone's performance over the weekend. I've got a list of things I want everyone to be working on for the rest of the season. I'll email you individually with the list of things you need to work on. In practice, from now on, we'll have individual work time, in addition to team work time. We don't have a lot of new strategy to learn, some more redzone stuff, maybe another zone D, and maybe, briefly, a new man offense.

As a team, here are the skills we need to continue working on: continuation cuts, dump/swing, deep cuts, man D, clearing, not cutting in from the front of the stack, marking/not getting broken, redzone offense, conditioning, and upwind throws.

Schedule
Monday (in Gym):
Warmup
5 box drills
10 Throw
3 person marking drill
Discuss Man O
Walkthrough Man O
Handler Cut Drill
Dump Swing Drill
Hander Cut + Dump Swing Drill
Continuation Drill
Individual work
3 on 3/court disc
8x20/10 intervals - burpees

Tuesday:
Warmup
10 Throw
Goto Drill
Huddle - Reminder about Man O
Scrimmage
Review Game
8x20/10s intervals - sprints

Thursday:
Warmup
10 Throw
1 on 1 Defensive coverage
Review Man O
Handler Cut Drill
Dump Swing Drill
HC + DS Drill
Continuation Drill
Individual work
8x20/10s Intervals - sprints

Zone O and D basics

We're going to cover the basics of zone offense and defense this week. Tuesday practice is cancelled, put in some quality time with the lady (or fella Fox) to get her off your back for awhile. We've got a scrimmage against Emory on Wednesday at 8pm at their place. Still need a few people to have 7 for that, hopefully some people will step up. Monday will be in the gym due to the cold. Thursday will be like normal. We've got a tournament this weekend, and we're not going to have many people, so drink water and start getting focused. For those of you on Air Alert week 6, it's T,W,Th this week.

Schedule
Monday (in Gym):
Warmup
5 shuttles
10 Throw
3 person marking drill
Discuss Zone D
Walkthrough Zone D
Discuss Zone O
Walkthrough Zone O
Reaction Ball Work
Frontside Zone O Drill
Backside Zone O Drill
3 on 3/court disc
7x30/20 intervals - burpees

Wednesday:
Warmup
10 Throw
Goto Drill
Huddle - Reminder about Zone O/D
Scrimmage
Review Game
7x30/20s intervals - sprints

Thursday:
Warmup
10 Throw
1 on 1 Defensive coverage
Review Zone O/D
Frontside Zone O Drill
Backside Zone O Drill
Circle Drill
Deep Receiving Drill
500
7x30/20s Intervals - sprints

RedZone

This week we're working on our red zone offense. One thing I've tried to stress the last few weeks is that when we get the disc into the red zone (10-15 yards from the end zone we're trying to score in), we must be patient and maintain possession. This week we'll add a general play, and a few specific plays that we can use to score. Above all though, we must remember to be patient and keep possession of the disc.

Schedule
Monday (in Gym):
Warmup
5 shuttles
10 Throw
3 person marking drill
Discuss Trips
Walkthrough Trips
Discuss House
Walkthrough House
3 on 3/court disc
7x30/20 intervals

Tuesday:
Warmup
10 Throw
Goto Drill
Huddle - Reminder about Trips/House (take timeouts in redzone to set up plays)
Scrimmage
Review Game
7x30/20s intervals

Thursday:
Warmup
10 Throw
1 on 1 Defensive coverage
Review Trips/House
Run Through Trips and House
Deep Receiving Drill
3 Line Drill
3 on 3
7x30/20s Intervals