Post 13

Communication is very important when you’re playing ultimate Frisbee. You can play as hard as you can, but if you don't play smart it doesn't even matter. Basically, play smarter not harder. You have to have a plan and everyone on your team has to be doing everything they possibly can to make the plan work. When you play man defense you still need to play it as a team. If everybody only focuses on their one guy, then you will be scored on. You have to be aware of what your teammates are taking away and their position on the field. If you are guarding the offender furthest down the field you are responsible for helping anyone going deep.
When playing we use many reserved words. Some are universal to all ultimate Frisbee teams and others are unique to our team. Some of the universal terms include the force, no inside, and no around. All of these terms are used to help the defense to take away more of the offenses' options. The force attempts to "force" the offense to only throw the disc to one side of the field, so any defender not "marking", (guarding the person with the disc), should be on the force side. The non-force side is called the break side. When an offender throws to the break side it is called breaking the mark. When the mark gets broken the whole defense breaks down. When you get broken you are letting your whole team down and you are basically saying, ”hey I don’t care you can score on me.”
No inside and no around are called out to the mark, usually from a teammate on the sideline, to try and make it as difficult as possible for the thrower to throw the throw that would be the most dangerous. Terms that our unique to our team include called plays and certain formations. When a word is called out everyone on the field is on the same page; there is a first option, usually the easiest, and if that doesn't work there are backup options. Once every option has been attempted the disc is reset and you run through the play again until it works.