Team Drills

Here are a selection of great drills you can run for developing a team or delivering to groups of students for PE lessons.

Lead Pass Drill - running onto the disc

Set out at a distance you are comfortable throwing a lead pass.  The 1st cut comes from stack behind the blue cone, as they turn at the 2nd blue cone they should turn to make eye contact with the coach (yellow) who puts a pass out in front of them to run onto judging their speed and ability, curving the flight path towards their run, as in the diagram. Once they've caught the disc get them to return to the back of the red cone stack, make sure they put the disc back on the pile.   Once the first player has caught the disc the first person behind the red cone can start running.

Points to stress

• Turn 90 degrees and look for eye contact with the thrower.
• Catch 2 handed when possible
• Don't give up! keep running after the disc it will keep flying longer than you think.
• Run as fast as you can to the next cone.

Cycle through so each player has caught from both sides.

Extension:

Put players in pairs of similar height and speed.  Set out together competing for the same disc. One player with a 2m head start from the cone.
Remove the cones and let them pick a direction of cut. Stress a sudden change of direction to loose their marker and looking for eye contact with the thrower.

 

Flow Drill with Stack

Key points:

• Throws out in front and curving slightly towards the cutter.
• Setting a pivot to have a stable base for the next throw.
• Timing of the next cut so that disc flows down the line.
• Running through the catches.

Cuts can go in either direction. The throw should be a backhand for right handers on the left hand side of the field (looking towards the endzone you are attacking)  and a sidearm on the right hand side of the field,  i.e. throw the side of your body closest to the sideline.

This can be adapted by 1st cut coming from 2nd stack then 1st or 1st cut from the back stack.

Modifying the Game

Playing with no endzones: Score a point after 10,15 or 20 passes to encourage the importance of retaining possession over field position. (possession vs territory)

Playing continueously: Once you have scored in the endzone you just start playing in the other direction towards the other endzone. Great for fitness and defence but also great for speeding up the transition between offence and defence.

5m restart: Once you score in the endzone the scoring player brings the disc 5m out of the endzone and you have to score again from there to register a point.  Great for working on your endzone offence and set scoring plays.

Hot box 

This is a game for 3 vs 3.  The field is generally arond 15-20m square with a 1-3m square scoring box in the middle

• The disc must be passed and recieved by each player in the team before a point can be scored
• Stall count is usually to just 5.
• On a turnover the disc must taken to the clearing area

variations;

• 3 second rule - nobody is allowed in the scoring box for more than 3 seconds, similar to the rule in basketball in the key under the basket.
• Can be played full contact inside the scoring box
• Double point if scoring pass is inside the clearing area.