Zone offense - designed to beat a zone defense trapping a sideline. Due to the nature of a zone defense there will always be 2 offense players open since there defenders will be in the cup. We need to take advantage of this by moving the frisbee between the handlers until an open player is found upfield.
When the disc is swung to the sideline the poppers (#3 and #4) as well as the wing on that sideline (#7) need to attack the open space. In this instance #7 is open and the handler has an opportunity to throw to them.
if the handler does not feel that the upfield players are open he can then throw to #2 or #1 for a reset. Ideally they will throw to #2 and #2 will throw a swing pass to #1
When #3 throws a dump back to #2 the upfield players need to start getting ready for the swing. #7 will push farther up the field in order to occupy the deep-deep position while #6 starts to move forward.
when the disc is swung across the field to #1 the poppers (#3 and #4) as well as the wing on the that sideline (#6) need to attack the open space.
If the handler does not feel that the upfield players are open and the cup sets itself then the goal is to gain yards while not getting trapped on the sideline
When #2 gets the disc the defense short deep(red #4) has a decision to make on who to guard (between poppers #4 and #5). They only have the ability to guard one so the poppers need to make sure they are about 10 yards away from #2 but spread out in different places
In this instance popper #5 is open. When #5 gets the disc it is imperative that #7 cuts toward #5 to get the easy under throw. #6 in that same time cuts deep.
The next throw will either go to #7 cutting toward the disc or #4 cutting away from the disc
If the defense is able to catch up and trap the sideline then the thrower will look to a handler for an easy reset. The handler should crash the cup from behind and get right next to thrower
Once it is reset to a handler then we will follow step 4 and swing the disc to the other side.