| Old School Methodology | Lang Skool | commentary |
| Stack | Facilitate | Traditionalists want you to stack, my attitude is that the concept behind the stack is the creation of space for catches to be made and therefore why stack, instead just keep making space dynamically - at any moment one player throws and 5 facilitate the seventh getting the disc |
| throw what you know | learn by doing | In the Finals at Nationals o.k, throw only what you know, but I know that I learned how to huck by trying it in games when I had no experience or business trying it. You absolutely cannot perfect a throw in practice, it must be honed in the heat of battle, so throw it under pressure and you'll get better throwing it under pressure |
| 45 degree cuts | take what you get | although there is a time and a place for prescribed cutting, for the most part I believe in taking what the D will give you, later you can learn how to get them to give you what you want. For the most part I run away from my defender and then cut for the disc |
| cut, clear, repeat | once open stay open | I have yet to understand the rationale behind getting open and thenif you don't get the disc restacked to allow your defend another chance at shutting you down on your next cut. Once you are open, if you keep running, you stay open. this leads me to a side concept of get open first, then cut for the disc. |
| throw to the cutting area | always open | Along with the stack and 45 degree cut comes the notion that if you don't get the disc, clear and restack. My attitude is that if you don't get the disc coming at the thrower it's probably because the defender is right on you. If the D is on you the easiest way to get open is reverse directions. The real beauty of this is when the thrower indictaes that you are not open by looking at you and faking the throw...if you were open, they would have released the disc. |