tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853626900440511419.post3703361492336258622..comments2024-01-14T00:18:52.695-08:00Comments on Katfish Corner: Flat Marking - When? Why?Katfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369665056160314596noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853626900440511419.post-7045471208360946442011-05-13T22:38:55.303-07:002011-05-13T22:38:55.303-07:00@Mike
We actually run a very similar defense to w...@Mike<br /><br />We actually run a very similar defense to what you described in your third paragraph. We flat the disc in the middle of the field with lane poaches and force it back towards the middle when it swings to a side. It's very effective for shutting down huck plays and whatnot etc.<br /><br />I also totally agree that any mark can be broken. It doesn't take a phenomenal thrower to break a good mark, which is a big part of why i'm an advocate of a flat mark.<br /><br />KatfishKatfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07369665056160314596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853626900440511419.post-74193285973826691042011-05-04T21:03:43.515-07:002011-05-04T21:03:43.515-07:00I don't know, I've yet to run into a mark ...I don't know, I've yet to run into a mark that couldn't be broken. My club team (SINergy of Las Vegas) practiced that "flat" backhand or forehand force before, and while it is excellent it can most definitely be broken, even when played well. We've got a guy with Worlds experience, out of Vancouver, whose marks are great and annoying to practice against... but I've broken them. The guys on Streetgang and Condors broke 'em a few times, surely. Even merely "pretty good" handlers like me have gotten damn good at breaking marks.<br /><br />I imagine I'm something less of an enthusiast for the flat mark as Katfish, but I agree that it can be quite useful. I did a fair bit of flat marking at a very windy hat tournament in Flagstaff, AZ a couple weeks ago, trying to prevent the "huck" component of the "huck and play D" strategy that most teams were embracing.<br /><br />Also used it in my team's "box" junk defense just this last weekend (savage hat tournament, some wind but not too bad). Outside markers force middle, middle marker goes flat with the outside markers poaching off their person into the passing lanes. Downfield defenders set up in a square, roughly. A nice containment defense I picked up from watching/playing against Streetgang (which runs this extremely well). The handlers can swing it back to each other all day if they want, but gaining anything more than 5 yards on any throw is hard.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15716908266431672312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853626900440511419.post-6779404315671593552011-04-17T09:35:14.712-07:002011-04-17T09:35:14.712-07:00It sounds like of like you're using the term &...It sounds like of like you're using the term "flat mark" and "straight-up" to mean the same thing (at least that's what I gathered from your last comment). However, a flat mark set up on one side (lining up the marker's sternum with the thrower's shoulder on the side you want to shut down) can work really well, too -- if done right, it's unbreakable. So while you're still giving up the huck to the open side, the downfield D can concentrate on that side since the marker has taken away any possibility of a break. Also, throwers denied the inside-out flick tend to get kind of wigged out and do stupid things!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05296611156325582889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6853626900440511419.post-3310193710074292622011-04-16T11:38:05.203-07:002011-04-16T11:38:05.203-07:00What the fuck is hucking.What the fuck is hucking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com