This Saturday 26th March, 1:50 Meet to maximise session time. Session runs 2pm-6pm
(FYI there are significant disruptions on the A46 around Warwick.)
When: Leamington Rugby Club, Kenilworth Road, CV32 8RG
Cost: £5 (£3 for students) Payable to the usual spot: Lemmings.playultimate.co.uk/Payments  
Venue: This venue is GRASS, it has been very sunny this week so I am not  expecting any issues with the ground but please come prepared to be playing on grass.
 
****IMPORTANT****
Please note the venue for this has changed to Leamington Rugby Club.
With the current forecast this is the perfect opportunity to get some full scale outdoors practice in.
The session will still run 2-6pm as advertised, but we are taking this opportunity to get some proper outdoors practice in the sun.
**BONUS**
The Rugby Club have offered to open the club house and bar after our session. If you aren't shooting off please join us for a drink afterwards in the sunshine.

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Session Outline
Following on from last week we will take another look at good cutting fundamentals and how they apply to the Horizontal stack (please take a look at the resources if you weren't with us last time.
https://lemmings.playultimate.co.uk/130)
We'll also be looking at defence with a very special guest coach.
And as always finishing with a good portion of games.

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/1LSK3MK72 

Season Plan

The expression of interest form will remain open over the preseason: https://forms.gle/PJazUUGCkryNxDV19
Training: Our aim is to hold approximately 1 weekend training a month with various focusses to help us develop through the year and will be organised around the UKU Tour events. These trainings will run as a supplement to our regular Monday evening Trainings 7-9pm at Leamington Rugby Club
 
(This has been updated please check your attendance across all tabs)
Competitions:
We are planning to enter teams into all of the tour events this year as well as an Open and Mixed team into UKU regionals with the aim to qualify for nationals in both divisions (Again). 
Dates can be found: https://lemmings.playultimate.co.uk/get-involved/lemmings-2022 

In the interest of a quick start to Saturday's training, we have put together a short explanation of the drills we'll be using to introduce the offensive structure. Please flick over these, you won't be tested but it would be good if most people had seen the set up before we get there on Saturday.

Drill 1 - Cutting and Clearing from the active side

The first option is that both of our cutters are able to get open under in a 1v1 match up, the advanatage of running a horizontal stack is that we have a very open deep shot which we can use to exploit the defence.

If our continuation cutter is not on going deep they will turn and come under into the large open-side for a large gainer.

The Second Option is that our first cutter doesn't get open

YOU DO NOT CLEAR DEEP AFTER AN UNDER CUT. Clearing in the open lane will take a long time, so instead we clear onto the break-side which is also a viable option as shown in Option 2.

If the first cutter(2) isn't able to receive the disc under or onto the break-side then they should clear and we now have a half field that our second cutter (3) will now take the active role and will repeat the same process.

Pulling the whole offence together:

Drill 2- Isolated Horizontal Offence

This Drill we will look to flow up a field length without defence initially(Left) Then we will add defence (right)

What are we aiming for:

Clearing Patterns:

Re-join stack position

  • From a deep cut you should clear horizontally into the inactive space then rejoin the horizontal stack in Cutting Position 3
  • From an Under Cut you should clear Horizontally into the inactive space then rejoin the Horizontal Stack in Cutting Position 3

Offensive Principals:

  • Handlers do not clear through the open lane.
  • The inactive outer cutters (4 &7) do not push across the field as the play develops, instead the continue downfield, ready to be activated when the disc swings
  • Handlers should look to gain ground on swings and hit isolated cutters early when possible.