Official Rules - YeaHaw!

Hammers and bloopers over the heads of the defenders are not allowed. Players on the offense cannot run into
the circle to catch a short throw, but they can run out of the circle to catch a long throw. Each set of defenders
stays in for five minutes. If an incompletion occurs, the guilty party must do a lap around the circle.
The strategy for the offense is to keep moving the disc as fast as possible to tire out the defenders. The defense
must work hard to force incompletions. [1]
Three Player
This is a great warmup drill before practice. It does not involve a great deal of running, but it is non-stop action.
At any given point during the drill there is a thrower, receiver and a marker. After releasing the disc, the roles
change: the receiver has the disc and becomes the thrower, the old thrower becomes the marker and must run
down and mark the disc. The receiver must be stationary. The thrower and the receiver should be about 20 feet
apart. The stall count is 5 seconds and the marker should start stalling at 6 (ie, „Stall 6, 7 8, 9, 10 STALL!“). If
the throw is incomplete, players do not switch roles. Keep trying until you make a completion. [1]
The more pressure the marker puts on the thrower the better the drill is. This is an excellent way to teach new
players how to make a good throw when there is a defender. The thrower should try to break the mark and then,
barring that, take what she or he can get. Hammers are declasse, but anything else is good.
References
[1] Ebb & Flow, http://www.menalto.com/EbbAndFlow/drills/BasicWeave.html
[2] AFDA, http://www.afda.com/development/drills/index.html#pivotthrow
The Cheer
The first time you’re at an Ultimate game you might notice a lot of singing going on at the end of a game. That‘s
because a quick Hip-Hip-Hooray to the other team just doesn‘t cut it in Ultimate. At the end of each game each
team creates a customized cheer to salute their opponents.
Usually it consists of taking a song that everybody knows and making up lyrics to commemorate the fun you had
playing with your opponents. Recounting the game‘s highlights is nice, a little friendly slagging doesn‘t hurt, and
naughty lyrics are welcomed.
If you feel you can’t sing or aren‘t very good at coming up with words, don‘t worry. Enthusiasm counts more than
talent when it comes to the cheer. It‘s just another extension of Spirit. No matter how bad or good your team did
on that particular day, it‘s pretty hard to take yourself too seriously when a bunch of people are massacring a
perfectly good pop song with off-key singing and x-rated lyrics.
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