Cup Movement

Cup Movement: , with the disc on the sideline. Again, this is a guide; feel free to alter offensive and defensive positions based on the way that you prefer…

Initial setup, with the disc on the sideline. Again, this is a guide; feel free to alter offensive and defensive positions based on the way that you prefer to play. Whenever a throw is described, treat it as a guide; take what the defence gives you. If they overplay one threat, attack another space.
1 breaks around to 2. Again, it doesn’t really matter how 1 gets the disc out. Feel free to throw inside, overheads, etc.
B immediately swings the disc. Having escaped the trap, the offence should now seek to avoid becoming trapped again. The defence need to contain the disc. Chasing after it is a bad idea; the disc moves faster than people, so they are unlikely to ever catch up. Instead, they move towards the middle of the field to deny downfield throws.
3 swings the disc again. The cup players – D1, D2 and D3 – continue to move across the field, aiming to prevent the disc moving into the centre of the pitch. D1 gets between 3 and 4 to prevent 4 throwing the disc straight back where it came from. Because the disc has switched sidelines, downfield defenders D4, D5, D6 and D7 also need to move over towards the newly exposed side of the field.
With downfield options guarded, the disc now stops moving. Now, the cup can move in and re-establish pressure.
Cup now re-establishes position and traps the offence again.

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