Category: Ultimate
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Pulls are Important
Cued by a comment on a recent episode of Deep Look, I began to think about the importance of pulls; whether it was worth it to spend real effort cultivating pullers this year. The more I thought, the more I became convinced that it wasn’t just a good idea, but something quite important and that…
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Bots 2017 – Season Planning
This is taken from an e-mail I sent to the captains, my basic plan for the season: In general, I think that in a short season you can really teach at most 2-3 things. Based on the level we’re at, I think those things should be dump sets, marks, and basic defensive principles (i.e. staying…
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Intersections of Athletics and Virtue
Summer always inspires me to think deeply about ultimate. This year, that’s resulted in reading a lot of military strategy (about which I’ll hopefully have something to say soon) and re-reading Timothy Gallwey’s classic, The Inner Game of Tennis. Inner Game is probably my favorite book on coaching and teaching, and I’ve long attempted (and often failed) to implement…
Dan Yingst 