The Ultimate Resource

Like soccer, basketball, and other continuous action sports, high-quality ultimate frisbee requires not just physical skills, but also field-awareness, lightning-fast decision-making, and creative improvisation. Yet the traditional, stack-based style of play that is almost universally taught to beginners approaches the game with an American-football-inspired, "set play" mindset that de-emphasizes and indeed undermines the development of these important qualities. This book presents an alternative style of play – dubbed "Flow" – that abandons scripted set plays and instead emphasizes the basic principles of intelligent game play. It also explains in detail how and why to skip the traditional pre-choreographed drills and instead center training sessions around activities designed to develop players' cognitive skills. Purely physical traits such as size and speed are valuable resources, to be sure, but from the Flow point of view it is players' ingenuity that constitutes "the ultimate resource". The book will be a ray of sunlight for ultimate frisbee players and coaches who want to develop that resource in themselves and their teams.