SotG: Spirit of the Game. Your Ultimate Frisbee Portal to flying disc sports, games, training, tournaments, news, schwag & social networking

sponsored links

This section will offer advice and tips on coaching newer players and youth. You will learn skills and techniques to: introduce Ultimate and its skills to new players; teach and maintain Spirit of the Game; interact with and utilize volunteers; improve the fitness of their team; maintain high professional coaching standards; and behave both ethically and legally while coaching.

The following topics may soon be included:

• Tools to advance your leadership.
• Teaching the game and basic skills to new players.
• Behaving professionally while coaching.
• Fitness and Conditioning.
• How to run a practice.
• Liability and Insurance.
• Teaching the Spirit of the Game.
• Ethics and Fairness in Coaching.
• How to Utilize Volunteers.
• Practice and Season Planning.
• Learning Styles.
• Assessing teams and players.
• Offensive/Defensive concepts.
• The Role of the Coach and Coaching the Mental Game.

The following links are intended to help coaches and instructors to improve key aspects of their leadership role.

Link	Description
www.upa.org/coaches	Coaching assistance, guides, and clinics.
www.upa.org/coaches/spirit	UPA Spirit of Coaching guide.
CoachingEthicsCode.pdf	UPA Coaching Ethics Code.
scrimmages.htm	Scrimmages: Most often used as a reward or a fall-back plan when no one has any other drill ideas? Scrimmages should be as valuable a training tool as any other part of practice. The most important thing in any scrimmage is to have a focus or theme.
confidence.htm	At all the levels of the game, one skill is critically important for both teams and individual players to possess: Confidence.
triggerhippy.htm	A story about heart (and coaching, of course).
focus.htm	Focus: The Mental Game: Game performance is reduced by distraction and enhanced by concentration. The capacity to concentrate effectively is widely regarded as the key to successful performance in competitive athletic events. Loss of concentration, however, is not a single variable. It may occur due to a variety of internal and external triggers. In developing the capacity to differentiate between distractions, one develops increased awareness, the first step to increased concentration. Dr. Leigh Jerome Leigh, a psychologist, writer, and avid player, discusses the steps to identify and resist distractions in her article.
planning-your-season.htm	Planning your Season: A plan is important no matter what the level, age, or competitive nature of the team. It helps form realistic expectations, provides direction, and can be a huge motivator for everyone involved.
http://playultimate.blogspot.com	Tips for Captains: Dealing with authority versus personal issues of team management.
path-to-gold.htm	Collaboration and Building a Successful Team: Leslie Calder, Anja Haman, and Ashley Howard from Vancouver's team Prime summarize their key suggestions on helping a team go from start-up to a top level touring team.
ultimate.teach.forehand	Teaching the Forehand: How to teach begginers to throw their first flick.

Links	Description
Ultimate Fitness DVD	Ultimate Fitness: Fitness Training for Ultimate Players: An excellent DVD on training, warm-ups, physical conditioning, etc. for Ultimate players.
Ultimate 101: Laying Out The Game	An instructional video by the UPA and Wham-O.
Basic Skills, Strategy, and Drills	Basic Skills, Strategy, and Drills by the Ultimate Players Association.
Ultimate Middle and High School PE Curriculum	Sample Ultimate curriculum by the Ultimate Players Association.
Teaching the Basics	"Disc Sports 'Teaching the Basics' A Resource Manual" by Premier's Sports Awards Program.
	Ultimate Techniques & Tactics by James C. Parinella and Eric Zaslow