Coaching and Game IQ Library

Continue your professional coaching development all year round. Listen to what some of the best minds in the sport are doing with their teams.

Athletic Performance

How to improve your team's altheticism

How to Use Team Warm Ups to Develop Athletic Movement Quality
Melissa Witmer

Three Parts of a Good Dynamic Warmup
Melissa Witmer


How To Translate Mobility & Strength Gains to Stellar On-Field Performance
Ren Caldwell

The 8 Pillars of Functional Performance Training
Tim Morrill

Fundamentals of Changing Direction
Melissa Witmer

Body Weight Training: No Gym, No Problem!
Ren Caldwell


Six Years to Make an Athlete: UAP Level 2 testing update
Jools Murray

Simple Ways to Create an Athletic Team Culture
Ren Caldwell

Increase team compliance to your S&C program
Melissa Witmer


Developing Athleticism in Youth Teams (Middle/High School)
Ren Caldwell


Glute Power: Training for Performance & Injury Reduction
Ren Caldwell

Injury prevention for ultimate
Jamie Wolf

Ultimate 4 Life: Secrets of Longevity
Ren Caldwell

Mental Toughness

How to improve your player's mental game

10 Steps to Mental Toughness
Tiina Booth

Simple Mental Strength Training Techniques You Can Start Today
Anna Rogacki

Cultivating the Mental Toughness Muscle
Judy Jarvis

The 2-step process to help your athletes set Effective Goals & achieve them
Anna Rogacki

Growing the Nation: how we built mentally-tough athletes and future coaches
Chrissy Hunter & Samuel Ng

Drill Design, Practice Planning, Season Planning

How to coach-by-design, from Drills, through Practices, right up to full Seasons.

Zone: Team fundamentals for zone defense and offense for any formation
Ben Wiggins

How to design drills that are right for your team
Sion 'Brummie' Scone

Season Planning: 3 steps to navigating 2 critical hours of your season
Mario O'Brien

The Realities of Being an Emerging Sport: Drills, Tips, and Suggestions for Practices with Limited Players or Field Space
Josh Hartzog

 Successful Skills Training - Develop your Athlete's Skills Effectively
Mish Phillips

Deconstructing Systems at Practice
Christie Lawry

Flexible Practice Planning for Players of All Skill Levels
Melissa Witmer

Better learning, better drills (skills acquisition in Ultimate)
Liam Kelly

How to Plan Focused Scrimmages Your Players Will Love!
Melissa Witmer

Coaching is Not (Just) a Team Sport: Focus on Individual Player Improvement to Build Championship Teams
Mike Payne

Designer Habits
Alex Davis

Ensuring training transfers to the pitch
Jools Murray

Progression at Practice
Lucy Barnes

Time Management for Ultimate Coaches
Sion Scone

Reaching the Youth: Coaching Middle School
Ella Hansen

Team Continuity & Leadership Development

How to build teams that last, and develop the next crop of leaders.

The Importance of Empowering Captains
Manisha Daryani

Teaching Leadership
Lou Burruss

Losing Control: The Development of Future Leaders
Marc van der Poest Clement

Keep Them Coming Back for More: How to Retain Players and Grow Your Program as a Leader
Lauren Boyle

Team selections: Making them fair, transparent and easier
Owen Shepherd

Lessons from NUTC & Beyond
Tiina Booth

One at a time, all at the same time: Finding the balance between being a player, coach, and captain of the same team
Mario O'Brien

Communicating with Captains
Keith Raynor

Team Culture & Motivating Players

Help players win internal & external victories
Mauricio Moore

The do's & do not's of talking in the huddle
Mario O'Brien

How to generate buy-in and commitment
Mish Phillips

Girl Talk: Developing a young women's team
Ráchel Tošnerová

Having the Talk: Discussing Equity with Your Team
Zara Cadoux

Positive Coaching: How Action and Language Impact a Team
Ben Banyas

How India Ranked 5 Within 5 Years
Jaidip Patel and Udaya "Box" Kumar

Constructive Communication: giving (and receiving) effective player feedback
Gwen Ambler

Creating a Culture and Systems for Feedback
Kristin Franke

The Art of Coaching: A Player's Perspective
Octavia Payne

Managing Multiple Skill Levels: It's Not One Size Fits All
DeAnna Ball

We Are What We Speak: Calling Subs, Team Meetings, and Building Team Cohesion
Matty Tsang

3 coaching strategies to empower your team to be united, strong & confident
Guylaine Girard

On-pitch Skills

How to throw, break marks, cut downfield, run handler resets, and pull. And how to counter all those!

Backhand Hucks
Colin McIntyre

How a disc flies: what a coach needs to know
Ben Heywood

Teaching the Forehand
Cate Roscoe


The Mark is your Friend
Jenny Fey

Setting a Strong, Efficient Mark
Robyn Fennig


Defensive Positioning for Shutdown Defense
Alex Davis


ACTOR: How to teach the Fundamentals of Match-up Defense
Keith Raynor

Confident Cutting: teaching effective cuts to shake defenders & gain yards
Josh Hartzog

Thinking & Feeling: Building Blocks of Creating Cutters
Keith Raynor


A different angle on resets: a key skill for safer, more effective dumps
John McNaughton

Attacking as a Handler: How to do it, how to stop it, and how to counter
Jonathan Nethercutt

Good Habits and Tricks for Dump Offense and Defense
Nicky Spiva


Pulling and Receiving
Ben Heywood

Tactics and Strategy

How to help shape your team's offence and defence

Dumps, Swings, Breaks, Oh My: Attacking Lateral Space and Using the Width of the Field.
Alex Snyder


Stack Talk: Understanding 3 common offensive sets
Keith Raynor

Teaching Horizontal Stack
Sion 'Brummie' Scone

Side Stack: Isolating Throwers and Receivers in Space
Claire Chastain

Beyond Stacking: Hexagon Offence
Felix Shardlow

 How to Game Plan and Counter Offences
Bryan Jones

Know Thine Enemy
Alex Davis

A team approach to match-up defence
Kaitlyn Lovatt & Carla Difillipo

Zone: Team Fundamentals for Zone Defence and Offence for Any Formation
Ben Wiggins

Starting a D point: the first 15 seconds
John McNaughton


Film Analysis - do it more!
Keith Raynor

Strategy, Subs and Stats: the Science behind Calling Lines
Alex Davis

Spirit of the Game

Building Spirit of the Game in Your Community
Richard Moore

Winning with Spirit
Ben van Heuvelen

SotG Tools and Best Practices
Paolo Chiappin

Mapping Spirit of the Game across cultures: What does Joy of the Game mean?
Chrissy Lind-Hunter

Teaching SOTG as a Skill
Liam Kelly

Other

How To Get Sponsored By Five Ultimate
Vehro Titcomb

How to attract sponsors and keep them happy
Ping Bautista

Equity, Ethics, and Professionalism
Erin Mirocha

Gender Equity and Shaping our Community
Qxhna Titcomb

How Disc Sports Fit into the Olympic Movement: Governance and Competition
Robert "Nob" Rauch

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Plan Your Season

Season Planning: 3 Steps to Navigating 2  Critical Hours of Your Season
Mario O'Brien

Focus on Individual Player Improvement to Build Championship Teams
Mike Payne

Select Your Squad

Team selections: Making them fair, transparent and easier
Owen Shepherd

Ultimate by the Numbers: Designing a Data-Drive National Team Programme
Alex Davis

Time is Limited: Use Stats
Alex Davis, Ben Heywood & Ben Wiggins

Pre-Tourney Prep

Tournament Preparation and Recovery
Tim Fergus

How to Game Plan and Counter Offences
Bryan Jones

Scouting & Strategic Analysis for Competition
Alex Davis

What do You do With Your Team Before a Big Tourney?
UAP Coaches Respond!

At the Tourney!

Time Management at Tournaments for Coaches
Sion Scone

We Are What We Speak: Calling Subs, Team Meetings, & Building Team Cohesion
Matt Tsang

Team Stats: Better Measures of Performance
Sion Scone

Strategy, Subs and Stats: the Science Behind Calling Lines
Alex Davis

The Do's & Do-Nots of Talking in the Huddle
Mario O'Brien

David vs Goliath
Corné Badenhorst

Building Athletic & Mental Strength

Athleticism

The 8 Pillars of Functional Performance Training
Tim Morrill

How To Translate Mobility & Strength Gains to Stellar On-Field Performance
Ren Caldwell

Bodyweight Training: No gym, no problem!
Ren Caldwell

Fundamentals of Changing Direction
Melissa Witmer

Increase team compliance to your S&C program
Melissa Witmer

Simple Ways to Create an Athletic Team Culture
Ren Caldwell

Glute Power: Training for Performance & Injury Reduction
Ren Caldwell

Injury prevention for Ultimate
Jamie Wolf

Ultimate 4 Life: Secrets of Longevity
Ren Caldwell

Six Years to Make an Athlete: UAP Level 2 Testing Update
Jools Murray

10 Minute Conditioning Modules You Can Use at Practice
Melissa Witmer

How to Make Ultimate Training Accessible
Bert Abbott & Ren Caldwell

Get More From Warmups

Three Parts of a Good Dynamic Warmup
Melissa Witmer

How to Use Team Warm Ups to Develop Athletic Movement Quality
Melissa Witmer

Incorporating a Mental Warm-up into your Physical Warm-up
Anna Rogacki

4-line Drill
Melissa Witmer

S-Cut drill
Melissa Witmer

Mental Strength

The four Pillars of Mental Strength
Anna Rogacki

10 Steps to Mental Toughness
Tiina Booth

Simple Mental Strength Training Techniques You Can Start Today
Anna Rogacki

Cultivating the Mental Toughness Muscle
Judy Jarvis

The 2-Step Process To Help Your Athletes Set Effective Goals & Achieve Them
Anna Rogacki

Growing The Nation: How we built mentally tough athletes and future coaches
Chrissy Hunter & Samuel Ng

Training Confidence & Maintaining Mental Toughness throughout a season
Mish Phillips & Anna Rogacki

3 Coaching Steps to Mentally Train Your Players to Perform at Their Peak on a Universe Point
Guylaine Girard

3 coaching strategies to empower your team to be united, strong & confident
Guylaine Girard