Step by step 20 steps
  1. Step 1

    Red is pulling to blue.

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  2. Step 2

    Handlers alongside the disc, cutters down field in a vertical stack.

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  3. Step 3

    Last person in stack cuts to disc. Rest of stack shifts back. Handlers come up to support.

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    After the throw, the cutter resets to the front of the stack.

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  5. Step 5

    Cutter movement continues in a clockwise fashion.

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    This is an ideal situation with continuation cuts and throws, rotating so that everyone has their turn cutting.

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    If the continuation isn't available, simply dump back to the handlers. Now we are back to the original stack order.

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    In general it is a good idea to mix things up on offense and keep the defense guessing. Cutting from the back of the stack can be beneficial for a couple of reasons.

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    Defenses like to be lazy, aka play smart. So inevitably, the first defender will shade in to take away the under cut, and the last defender will shade back to take away the deep cut.

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    As you can see, when the defenders can anticipate your cuts like that, you are pretty much out of luck.

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    By cutting from the back of the stack we can potentially exploit this defensive tendency.

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    The back of the stack fakes going deep, while the front of the stack fakes going in.

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    The back cutter can now create a lot of separation with their in cut, and the front cutter can go break side.

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    The back of the stack cuts first again, and if the defender is caught off guard then they can continue for the score...

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  15. Step 15

    otherwise they can come in for the under. And the cutter who just threw the disc returns back to the front of the stack again.

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    The general strategy still applies, regardless of where cuts are being initiated. If the cutter has the disc and the continuation cut is not available and nothing looks promising within the first couple of seconds, then reset the disc back to the handlers as soon as possible. Do not wait until the stall count gets high and players are acting out of panic.

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  17. Step 17

    The dump swing is going to be the ideal reset.

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    If the defenders are holding the force, then it will be hard to stop what happens next.

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  19. Step 19

    Just so many opportunities.

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