tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674871730026898132.post3464070940741359009..comments2023-07-03T20:52:49.846-07:00Comments on The Author's Files: Ultimate BasketballThe Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06348542336556124585noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674871730026898132.post-57778371090677265832014-01-24T15:26:21.556-08:002014-01-24T15:26:21.556-08:00I'll go ahead and go through everything point ...I'll go ahead and go through everything point by point too, because you don't seem to be understanding all that I'm saying. While you said that no one judges each other based on their negative traits, you didn't really respond to any of my other arguments. Handling and Receiving aren't positions in a game. They are your strengths. It is common sense to play to your strengths. It is not common sense to throw it far down the field to someone who is known for fumbling long throws. It is not common sense to ask someone known for terrible throwing to throw all the way down the field to you. Let's say that you can both throw and catch well. You are still going to be more proficient at either throwing or catching, and you should therefore accommodate your playing, so as to either catch or throw more respectively. If you're skill lies in catching the frisbee, rather than throwing it, your buddies aren't going to hold your prowess against you. The same goes for "Handlers".<br /><br />You didn't seem to understand in my counter-definitions that if the frisbee has just gone back to a more advantageous position, it probably means that the frisbee is going to go somewhere from that advantageous position. Very. Quickly. You seemed to be using some pretty hefty double standards as well. You endorse long, risky throws to the opposite side of the field, but yet you disapprove of equally risky tomahawk throws. How can you think it's wise to do one ridiculously difficult feat, but not another? I don't get it. Also, you're not wasting time by taking your time if taking *your* time results in making a successful throw. Time takes second place to accuracy. <br /><br />I would also argue that breaking is not the separation between the guarder and his target, but is rather the attempt by the runner to shake off the man who is guarding him. It doesn't always result in a significant lead. Even in occasions when a substantial lead is gained, I've witnessed many extraordinary defensive maneuvers in which guarders will miraculously knock down the frisbee at the last second.<br /><br />And I'll keep your preferences and choices when I have the frisbee this Sunday.MiddleDudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16856381771777797329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674871730026898132.post-1274256420271488572014-01-24T14:51:46.492-08:002014-01-24T14:51:46.492-08:00Middle Dude,
Let's just go through this point...Middle Dude,<br /><br />Let's just go through this point by point, line by line so as to guarantee the most efficient time management (especially because I already wrote out a lengthy 3-paragraph reply in the comment box only to see every character of it vanish before my eyes when I hit the Preview button). Your main objection to my cynicism over the division of teams into Handlers and Receivers is that such designations "are not so much positions as they are descriptions of one's strengths and weaknesses". Putting aside for the moment that teams never delegate themselves roles based on negative skill – have you ever played with a group that classifies players as "handlerrs" and "fumblers", "slowpokes" and "lamearms"? Obviously not, as I even had to make up two of those words. –, how does your conception of these titles in any way accommodate for a player who can throw and catch with exceptional prowess? For the sake of argumentation, let's entertain the ludicrous assumption that such a player doesn't exist. What is the socially expected behavior of any Handler or Receiver in the course of game? It's to Handle or Receive according to his post and to do nothing else besides. In other words, it's to fulfill whatever preordained and arbitrarily allotted position he was given by the self-appointed captain of his team.<br /><br />As for your counter-definitions to those I gave in the lexicon, I would concur with most of them, especially since not a single one refutes or clashes with any of mine. You say that dumping the disc or passing it back is a motion in which the current possessor hands "the frisbee behind him to another player who is in a more advantageous throwing position". Maybe so, but it's still moving the disc in the wrong direction. Why don't teams just dump and pass the disc all the way back to the endzone from which they began the round in process in order to get in the most advantageous throwing position? Because that's the wrong direction. You say that hammering is a useful throwing technique for reaching a taller guy who presumably knows how to catch a sideways or upturned disc. Agreed. It's almost always disastrous in practice. You say that short throws are usually safer and easier to execute than long throws, particularly in cases where one is "being rigidly guarded". Perhaps it is for those who don't know how to throw around such a rigid guard. Long throws score points exponentially faster. You say that taking your time means to withhold from "recklessly" throwing to the first teammate who breaks (and, as it so often happens, the second teammate, the third, and the fourth). Regardless of which breaker the incompetent Handler eventually throws the disc to, he has wasted everyone's time in taking his own.<br /><br />However, I can find no common ground whatsoever with your definition of breaking, a maneuver which you say "does not in all cases result in a substantial lead over your defender". "Break" is a verb of separation by nature; to break is "to separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain". Alternatively, to "break away" is to "escape from someone's hold" or "escape from the control of a person, group, or practice". A break that doesn't result in a lead over the opposing team's player isn't a real break because it lacks the necessary component of separation. Call it fraking.<br /><br />If you wish to continue making Short Throws, Taking your time, Dumping it, Giving and Going, and Receiver role-playing for your team, go ahead. I only ask that you show a little more tolerance for my individual choice to handle and receive the disc, whatever brings me pleasure at the moment.The Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06348542336556124585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4674871730026898132.post-14631136796227743212014-01-20T12:52:48.849-08:002014-01-20T12:52:48.849-08:00Dear Author, I have decided that you don't spe... Dear Author, I have decided that you don't speak "Ultimate Frisspeak", or else you are very misguided in your views on the maneuvers of which you speak. "Handlers", "Receivers", and "Cherry Pickers" are not so much positions as they are descriptions of one's strengths and weaknesses: if you are a handler, you have considerable skill in throwing the frisbee, while you may not be able to catch as well as you throw (bear in mind that being a handler does not inherently make you a poor catcher, it only means that you can throwing is your strongest point). CherryPicking is admittedly a slightly different scenario: one is generally not assigned as or dubbed a "Cherry Picker", but is instead a personal preference of the player in question. Being a handler or receiver is in no way a reflection of your social standing among your fellow players. <br /><br /> Your definition of "break" is fairly accurate, although I would argue that breaking does not in all cases result in a substantial lead over your defender, and the player in possession of the frisbee is not always able to throw to you due to the man who is standing right in front of him, waiting to block his throws. <br /> Your description of "Dump it", however, is far from the mark. Dumping it is an action in which the player with the frisbee "dumps" the frisbee behind him to another player who is in a more advantageous throwing position than the current disc holder, so as to allow forward progress toward the opposing team's end zone.<br /> "Give and go" is also another action you fail to comprehend: giving and going is a technique in which the disc holder throws the frisbee to an open player who is either behind or parallel to him and proceeds to sprint towards an open area of the field where the new disc holder will pass it to him. <br /> Hammering is an action useful for several situations. Hammering is useful when one wishes to throw the frisbee high into the air while not resulting in a floater, thus getting the frisbee to the tall guy quickly and effectively. <br /> You seem to have misunderstood the phrases "Hang on" and "Hold up", which are usually yelled as the runner sprints up behind and past the disc holder so as to let him know of their soon-to-be open status. <br /> Rain - why in the world would people play a different day because of rain? I've played in the rain before. <br /> Short throws are generally much safer than long throws when being rigidly guarded, especially under the consideration that long throws are exponentially harder to get perfect than the shorter, safer throws. <br /> Taking your time in no way means to not throw the frisbee, but only to be cautious in your throws, rather than recklessly throwing to the first person who breaks. MiddleDudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16856381771777797329noreply@blogger.com