ACTUA Development Clinics

ACTUA is running development clinics at the ANU at Willows Oval on Monday nights from 21/7 until 18/8 from 6:30 to 8:30. Willow's Oval is on the intersection of Barry Drive and North Road on the South (lake) side of the road. Don't go to the other side, we're not allowed to use those fields (ever since the Great Ultimate Frisbee Catastrophe of 1907) even though the turf is superb.

These clinics are designed to give league players and their teams the edge and provide a way for players looking to learn more to move into more demanding leagues or even move towards tournament ultimate.

The current schedual for the five weeks is:

Week 1: Foundations - We'll improve our basic skills of throwing, catching, holding and breaking a force, reading the flight of the disc and hucking.

Week 2: Match - We'll build on players understanding of Match defense and offense (you might call it Man-on-Man, but soon you'll call it Match), looking at faster disc movement, using more of the field and maintaining possession.

Week 3: Junk - We'll all learn how to play a form of zone defense which is more aggressive than traditional cup zone.

Week 4: Variations - We'll add some simple changes to the basic strategies we've learnt to make them less predictable and more effective.

Week 5: Smack Talk - We'll develop the highly important skill of looking and sounding better and more knowledgeable about ultimate than any of us really are.

If you're interested please sign up by leaving your name and any other relevant details in the comments section.

This development program is officially endorsed by James "Kiss These Guns" Ley.