Product Description

Improve your poaches, hone your hucks, and sharpen your cuts. With Ultimate Techniques & Tactics as your guide, you will master all of the offensive and defensive skills and principles critical to excelling in the sport.

This essential handbook contains more than the mechanics of the game; it presents in-depth instruction on using key skills such as throwing, cutting, and catching in game situations. You will

·study flight paths to maximize your chances of completing passes;
·understand the finer points of catching; and
·learn when, where, and how to cut to gain yardage, improve disc position, and maintain possession.

You will also stun your opponents when your team employs the offensive and defensive strategies learned in Ultimate Techniques & Tactics. Use your complete knowledge of offensive skills to organize such offenses as zone, stack, weave, and split stack. And when every point matters, create an impenetrable line of defense to save the game. Disrupt your competitors’ rhythm and timing using one-on–one, zone, or junk defenses like the clam.

Ultimate Techniques & Tactics is the first and best guide to the sport of Ultimate. Use it to become an Ultimate champion!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80353 in Books
• Brand: Human Kinetics
• Published on: 2004-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Features

• A compleate guide to the worlds greatest game
• Written by James Parinella and Eric Zaslow
• Full color pictures
• Take your game to the next level!

About the Author
Jim Parinella is among the most recognized names in Ultimate. He is one of the leaders and top players of the six-time national and three-time world champion team, Death or Glory (DoG). Parinella is also heavily involved in the Ultimate Players Association (UPA), where he was on the board of directors from 1998 to 2003, serving as president in 2000 and 2001.

In addition, Parinella is a regular contributor to the UPA Newsletter, Ultimate Life Magazine, and other Ultimate publications. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Eric ("Zaz") Zaslow has been an Ultimate player since 1977. He played with DoG when they were world champions (in 1996 and 1999) and national champions (in 1996, 1997, and 1998). Currently, he is one of the leaders and top players of another national-caliber team, Chicago’s Machine. Zaz is a current member of the board of directors for the Ultimate Players Association (UPA). He lives in Chicago.

Customer Reviews

Worth every penny
It's about time.

I've been playing ultimate for, geez, about 8 years now. Much of the material in this book is stuff that I'm familiar with. Some of it is new to me. But even the info that comes as no surprise becomes more useful when you see it stated concisely. In addition, this would be a fantastic teaching aid if you're trying to figure out how to get new players onto the right page.

Example: One part of the book shows a fairly basic play (disc trapped on the line, L-stack, dump/swing and throw for yardage), and shows, with commentary, seven different slight variations, based on who can cut, where the throw is caught, etc. Each of the seven variations will make immediate sense to an experienced ultimate player, but you might not ever think of the play in terms of the basic principles, and you might have a hard time explaining it to a newbie (or even realizing what things needed to be explained).

I agree with the reviewer who pointed out that unless you speak a certain amount of the language, this book would be pretty confusing.

I'm half way through the book now, and it has already been more than worth the price. I suspect any ultimate player would agree.

A complete book for improving your game
Unlike the other book on ultimate (by Studarus), this one assumes from the outset that you are already pretty familiar with the game and the terminology. This book concentrates on techniques, skills, and drills to improve both individual skills and team play. The writing is good and the diagrams are nice.

I have only two criticisms of the book. The first is that the "entry bar" is pretty high: for example, if you don't know what an inside-out break-mark throw is at the outset, you'll need to spend a bit of time paging through the glossary, and if you don't know how to throw a hammer, this book won't help you. The second is that the writing occasionally gets long-winded, and you may discover you've just read four whole pages of prose that seem to just boil down to pithy advice like "when marking, keep your weight above your feet and stay balanced".

Despite these criticisms, the book is good, and there is a lot of material here I haven't seen elsewhere in print.

best ultimate book on the market
best ultimate book on the market

havn't even finished the book yet and think its the best ultimate book on the market at this stage, gives good incite into team formations and goals

tomw