Step 1

For force middle, we start in our standard position. The goal here, as always, is to not get broken.

Step 2

When the disc gets swung, the cup (1-2-3) create essentially a flat wall, making it so the side handler will swing it back around to the middle.

Step 3

When the disc is getting swung back around, the 1 has to avoid pinching in. The middle handler is probably going to get the throw off to the break side handler. That's cool. What we don't want is the side handler having full field vision. If they DON'T get the full field cross off, and the middle handler holds it then 3 is the mark now (the person who was the off).

Step 4

Same thing again, just different side. The cup forms a straight line, and forces a throw back to the middle.

Step 5

In a trap, the goal is to force something stupid. We set up in the same formation.

Step 6

But when we trap, the apex becomes the mark, the 1 (the original mark), covers the middle handler until the middle handler comes all the way back behind the disc, and 3 (the off) goes up line. Watch the way that the rest of the cup shifts when trapping. The 6 (the near-side mark) basically drops back as a deep-deep - close enough to the piston that he can attack, but deep enough that the deep-deep doesn't feel along. The 7 (the deep-deep) moves to the break side of the field, and should be ready to attack any hammer to the break side, or something floaty into the middle of the field. The far side wing (the 5, drops down to cover the handler. This ALL has to be done to make this trap successful.