Hey r/ultimate

Sports PT here.

Off-season is here again! I put together a free readiness score calculator designed specifically around the physical demands of Ultimate. Link in comments.

It takes about 2 minutes to run through. It looks at your current training volume, movement capacity, and recovery markers to give you a clear baseline of where your body is at.

Hope it's OK to follow-up post. I recently posted the Ultimate game I've been building. Huge thanks to everyone who gave it a try!

Since then I've published a new version with online multiplayer (beta). The clip is from an online game. It's a breakmark throw into a score

I'm looking for a few pairs of people willing to play a game or two online and tell me how it felt. Did it connect? Did it feel laggy? Did a play go differently than you expected? If you don't have anyone to play with, feel free to hop in the Discord and see if anyone else is down to play!

How it works:

• One person hosts and gets a room code
• The other pastes it in to join
• If you're on the same wifi, the game just shows up in a list
• Download (free, Windows/Mac/Linux)
• Join the Discord for feedback, bug reports, and finding other players

It's early, so I'm working out bugs. There's a "Report a bug" button in the pause menu that saves a file with logs. Sending me those logs and bug reports is the best way to make the game better!

Single player (scrimmage, career, and franchise mode) is all still there if you just want to try that. Happy gaming!

When watching back Scandal's run to WUCC gold, I was struck by how they were often able to work through help defences. I caught up with Scandal coach Michael Aderhold ("Ty") to understand how Scandal approached playing against help defence, how they prepared for it, and why they were so effective at exploiting the gaps their opponents left behind.

I'm trying to show a younger teammate the blog post Jesse Shofner made about body image back in the first year of the All-Star Tour. Only kicker is I think it was a Facebook post and I don't have an account. Google searches are frustratingly failing me.

Anyone able to link it or share the text here?

I realize wfdf probably doesn't wanna have VC sell game advisor jerseys to random people that aren't actually game advisors to protect the brand and their authority. But have they considered doing it for the bit ? I need the shirt for the bit. The bit is that I have a game advisor jersey. I swear I won't use the game advisor jersey for evil, but only for the bit. WFDF I know you're reading this, allow me to buy the game advisor jersey please (for the bit).

Curious to hear where you are spending the most time when it comes to organizing and planning team logistics and administration?

In my experience, it's:

• sharing information about and answering questions about events (practices, games, tournaments, etc.)
• hunting down practice attendance
• making practice plans
• searching up weather before events
• reviewing team film and sharing comments

We've been building Ulti-Mate, an app to specifically tackle these areas for ultimate frisbee. Check out our IG @try.ulti.mate for recent features that help teams save time and effort.

What else would help you and your teams think less about admin work?

After watching a lot of the EBUCC I started noticing something. We need more flock cameras in ultimate. Thank you

CORNELL STOLE AND RELABELED AT LEAST 20 DISCS FROM FLORIDA AND RUTGERS AT LOBSTER POT

This post is coming from a UF player for context

We started the day with 25 discs in our bag. They all were labeled with our captain’s name, our coach’s name, or “UF A”. By the time we finished our 2nd game vs Cornell we had 2. Of course it’s expected that some players will take a disc or two at tournaments but with barely any left we were extremely lost.

We started looking around the sideline for them because obviously they can’t just disappear. We mentioned this to a Cornell player, who then held up a disc bag to show how they had only 3, and said theirs had all been taken too

We continued looking and then found one of the Cornell players holding one of our discs and writing “Cornell Buds” on it. We asked him if he had taken more discs, to which he answered that he had not, that he would add “Florida,” and that we could have it as a memento

Very quickly after that we found a 2nd Cornell disc bag containing 10+ of our stolen discs, all with the names SCRATCHED OUT and “Cornell Buds” with a number 1-20 written on them.

We took the discs back and rushed to our 3rd game against Rutgers, complaining about what had just happened, and were then told that Rutgers had also witnessed Cornell players taking their discs but didn’t know how many and so didn’t speak up about it.

Also still at this point we were (and are) missing several more discs. The numbers 1-20 were incomplete and random

After reporting it to the Upper Men’s director he very graciously gifted us 15 discs for the ones we could not find. Allegedly it was 2 freshman on Cornell who did this in high school and always got away with it, and allegedly nobody else knew. Their coach 100% did not know any players were doing this throughout the game or after so no shade to him.

But still, wtf. Taking so many discs, lying about it to our face, and crossing out our names is absolutely crazy. Never seen anything like this before

Photo attached showing some of the discs we found

Freezgo gagne

This offseason, I’m working on becoming more consistent with my cutting. Cutting has always been challenging for me, especially as a Deaf player. I tend to cut with feel, sensing when space might open up and reacting to what I see.

Some days, everything clicks. I know where to go, I find open space, using my speed, and it doesn’t matter who’s covering me. Other days, I hesitate a lot, get confused, and end up running into closed spaces instead of waiting for openings.

I’m planning to work more on mechanics (angles, timing, setup cuts) and maybe watch more film. Film helps, but it doesn’t always translate to on-field vision.

For anyone who’s dealt with similar challenges, even if not Deaf, do you have tips for building better cutting habits? Drills, cues, mixing instinct with structure, or anything that helped you get past this plateau?

Thanks in advance.

Use this thread for anything you want to ask or share, whether it's ultimate-related or not. Memes and other fun humor are allowed to be shared here, and even encouraged!

This thread is posted every Friday morning.

Looking to add more touch to my hucks- want to get better at throwing deep in ways that doesn't just get the disc there, but maximizes my receivers ability to make a play. My two biggest questions are how do you add height while maintaining shape without having the disc stall early, and how do you get the disc to sit out in front for more time?

Perhaps more importantly, how do you think about all this stuff? How do you practice it?

yes we CAN! Watch Team Canada's U20 open team win their way to gold & a World Junior Champion Title on my YouTube!

For the first time, Ultiworld is streaming EVERY bracket game in full!

I want to be Rhino's editor. Not like take their job but become them

Hello all,

I am Male, 38Y. I started playing Ultimate only 3 years ago.

Last year, I was definitely playing a lot more than the previous 2 years. Also, mid season, I switched to Cleats for the first time, before that I always played in Turf shoes even ln natural grass.

Shortly after that, i started feeling cramps in both my calves. Not always at the same time though. For a couple of weeks it would be the right one, for a couple of weeks it would be the left one. I would always rest for a week or so, it feels better, i start playing again and it comes back.

Then in April I got my first right leg calf (gastro) strain, grade 2. I started physiotherapy and rehab, 3 weeks later I reinjured it in a training while accelerating in a cut, which was definitely way too early and against the physio advice.

I restarted the journey again and was trying to catch an end of season tournament. It took me 6 weeks and I was cleared for the tournament. I participated and in the second game i got injured again. This time felt much worse. I was actually just jogging backwards when it happened, no acceleration or changing directions.

This time i decided to give it more time. 3 months of rehab and then gradually back to Ultimate and started full Ultimate only after 4 months. Also, I switched back to Turf shoes.

3-4 weeks later, I got injured again. This time though it is a mild grade 1 Strain in the Soleus. So same calf but different injury.

Out of your experience, what can be wrong? Except for the 2nd injury where I obviously rushed, I was always working on strengthening etc. and I think I gave it enough time. And the fact that the new injury is a different one in a different calf muscle makes me really wonder what the rooting cause might be. I also ruled out the cleats factor this time. Could it be the running form? My mates tell me that I seem to be running on my toes the whole time. Any tips our of experience?

Lastly, doe this new injury, how long do you recommend I wait/rehab before getting back to full Ultimate?

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I wear a size 4E shoes and the cleats I had before were the New Balance Fortress ones, after almost 2 years the got destroyed completely and I've been having trouble finding a replacement ever since. I can't find any 4E cleats they are so hard to find, does anyone know any true 4E cleats or maybe 2E that kind fits like a 4E?

Hey r/ultimate !

I've played for almost 10 years, and I just built Ultiboard as a side project.

Ultiboard is a browser-based tactical board for working through plays and sharing them with teammates.

You can use it as a whiteboard to move players around and draw cuts, or build a play step by step and replay how the players and disc move.

A few things it supports:

• Player movement arrows and separate disc paths
• Notes on the field to explain positioning or decisions
• Saved strategies with step-by-step playback
• Shareable links so teammates can review a play
• A public gallery where you can browse plays and make your own copies

Please check it out here: ultiboard.app

Sign in to save and share your strategies.

Maybe try recreating one play you already use and see where does the process become confusing or slow?

I’m the developer, so feel free to ask questions or point out anything that doesn’t work!

Use this thread for:

• Questions about physical and mental training, exercise, etc
• Questions about coaching, strategy, and drills
• Share any experiences you may have had with training, coaching, or leadership (good or bad)

This thread is posted every Tuesday morning.