Leamington Lemmings Ultimate

Week 4- Focus

Nothing makes you better at catching than dropping some discs 

Theme Focus'
Focus
  • Throwing While Tired
  • Skill Rehearsal
  • High Standards

Strength Component

Single Leg Hip Bridge

Hip bridges are a really good core stability exericise as well as being a really useful for Strengthening glutes and hips.

Ultimate Component

Individual

Warm-Up

Complete a warm up to avoid injuries focusing on:

  • Hamstring stretches
  • Walking Backward Lunges
  • Glute Activation
Reminder of the Lemmings Warm-Up
Sprint Progression:

Set up two marks around 10 metres apart and run each step twice (Once facing each direction)

Focus should be on maintaining neutral hips thoughout

  • Side Steps
  • Crossover Steps
  • Side Steps into Crossover Steps
  • Crossover into Sprint

This might be interesting 

Huck Shaping

Make two boxes, 10 yards deep, 20 yards wide. Distance between front of of boxes should be your max comfortable hucking distance minus 15yards.

Place ~10 discs at location, distributed through box (e.g., one disc at each corner, one ad midpoint of each side, one in center, and a double).

Start at back line of box with discs. Run to rear line of opposite box and back (to elevate heart rate), then huck the discs to land in far box. Score how many land in box as simple feedback. Can alter "scoring" to be more sophisticated (designated shape of throw, land in one section of box, etc, one point for shape one for in box, treat one side of box as sideline and o.b. means zero points).

After throwing, walk or jog down, pick up the discs, and set them up again. Repeat. 2-3 times works nicely. Just adding enough running to raise the heart rate and make it slightly more in-game feeling.

I like this drill for practicing hucking, while incorporating distance control, shape control, and thinking about target zone. Lots of ways to tweak it to work on different things.

Pairs:

Warm-Up

Complete a warm up to avoid injuries focusing on:

  • Hamstring stretches
  • Walking Backward Lunges
  • Glute Activation
Reminder of the Lemmings Warm-Up
Sprint Progression:

Set up two marks around 10 metres apart and run each step twice (Once facing each direction)

Focus should be on maintaining neutral hips thoughout

  • Side Steps
  • Crossover Steps
  • Side Steps into Crossover Steps
  • Crossover into Sprint

Better to focus on good form than racing other people

Huck Consistency

 With a partner, start standing 15 yards apart and throw:

  • Flat Backhand
  • Flat Forehand
  • IO Backhand
  • IO Forehand
  • OI Backhand
  • OI Forehand

If you complete all of your throws then both of you take a step backwards.

Complete this until you fail 3 times in a row in one position. If you then want to run through the pattern again.

  • You should not be adjusting your teqnique from how you threw at 15 yards
  • Ensure you have a proper pivot for all throws

If you find yourself changing your teqnique stop throw a few short passes and then resume.

 

 

Small Pod:

Break Mark Throwing

Warm-Up

Complete a warm up to avoid injuries focusing on:

  • Hamstring stretches
  • Walking Backward Lunges
  • Glute Activation
Reminder of the Lemmings Warm-Up
Sprint Progression

Set up two marks around 10 metres apart and run each step twice (Once facing each direction)

Focus should be on maintaining neutral hips thoughout

  • Side Steps
  • Crossover Steps
  • Side Steps into Crossover Steps
  • Crossover into Sprint

Better to focus on good form than racing other people

Huck Consistency

 With a partner, start standing 15 yards apart and throw:

  • Flat Backhand

  • Flat Forehand

  • IO Backhand

  • IO Forehand

  • OI Backhand

  • OI Forehand

If you complete all of your throws then both of you take a step backwards.

Complete this until you fail 3 times in a row in one position. If you then want to run through the pattern again.

  • You should not be adjusting your teqnique from how you threw at 15 yards

  • Ensure you have a proper pivot for all throws

If you find yourself changing your teqnique stop throw a few short passes and then restart.

Keep Disc

Mark out a small grid. Half of your pod are on O and half are on D. (With an Odd number of players, the extra plays O)

Every 10 passes you complete is a point up to a maximum of 50 passes. At any point you can bank the points you are on and hand the disc to the other team.

Stall Count is 6

Huck Shaping:

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Starting ahead to simulate cutting from position 2 in a Horizontal Stack.

Set up with the defender looking away from the cutter so as the cutter engages their cut they tap the defender on the shoulder and the thrower must throw the disc to avoid the trailing defender making a play on the disc

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JesFH37oKYo

https://ultiworld.com/2020/05/12/tuesday-tips-how-to-have-an-ultimate-practice-by-yourself/

https://beultimate.ca/blogs/living-better-than-ever/thowsolo