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Ultimate

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Introduction

Purpose of this book

This book has the purpose to illustrate:

• What the basics of the game are.
• How a beginner can learn the basics of the game.
• How a coach can teach the basics of the game to a team of beginners.

Intended audience

The intended audience for this is for people of all ages interested in Ultimate Frisbee.

Fundamentals

Intro

"What?!", I hear you cry, "people actually call this a sport?" Well, yes. Now, the basic rules of Ultimate, are remarkable simple. It is only when you delve a little deeper that things start to get complicated. But all things in good time, and here is the general gist of the game for a total ultimate newbie;

Pitch Diagram

Diagram of an Ultimate pitch.

The Rules

• There are two teams on the pitch at any one time, playing in opposite directions, with one disc.
• 7 players on each team on the pitch at any one time outdoors, 5 indoors.
• You cannot travel bipedally or any other way when holding the disc.
• The disc may be thrown in any direction.
• If the disc is dropped/not caught/intercepted/stalled out (see below) then possession of the disc goes to the other team.
• At either end of the pitch there are the End Zones.
• To score one point you must be in the oppositions' End Zone and catch the disc.
• When each point is scored then the teams swap directions.
• The disc cannot be held for more than 10 seconds at a time outside, 8 inside.
• If the indicated number of seconds is reached without release of the disc, then that is a Stall Out, possession changes.
• All games are self adjudicated, no referees. Disputes must be solved between the players involved.
• If a dispute is not resolved, then that play is reset.

Forehand

Forehand infographic

Basic tactics

Stack offence

Stack diagram

Leapfrog

Leapfrog diagram