Orbiting Defence: Repositioning using Orbiting Defence by Jimmy Mickle

“Orbital defence” is the term used for changing position relative to the thrower and cutter in order to always be denying the most dangerous option. As a defender, ask yourself this: “where is the most dangerous position for my person to get the disc?”. It is not always on the open side. Consider the scenario shown in Fig. 1, with a cutter attacking the open side, guarded by a defender. The field can be split into three conceptual zones; (1) […]