Issue No. 13 | Teaching Team Defense

Issue No. 13 | Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Teaching Team Defense

Young, athletic, inexperienced players can be taught 1-on-1 defense, at least at a cursory level, very quickly. "Stay close to your person" or "run hard, get your hand on the disc" work very well for simple defensive skills.

However, team defense (poaching, switching, zone) can be harder to teach, which is probably why so few players are really good at these skills. In a search for insight on this topic, we asked our authors the following questions:

• Have you had success teaching team defense to a team?
• What did you teach? How did you go about it? Were there specific drills that you did that helped players learn?
• Are there specific team defense attributes that you have found particularly difficult to teach?

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us at: info@the-huddle.org.

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