German Offense - in the endzone
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While vertical and horizontal
offense are the primary styles of
strategies teams have adopted,
there is still the “mythical” German
offense that you hear about. It was
a lot more common to hear people
talk about German offense a few
years ago but we thought it would
be interesting to post an article
about how your team could use
this strategy to confuse opponents.
That being said, this article is just
our interpretation of what German
offense can look like.
The idea behind German offense is to
isolate players and throw to space. If you
take this as the foundation, it is not far off
from any offensive strategy. Any good team
will strive to isolate one player in an one on
one situation and throw to open space to
lead the receiver. So what makes German
offense a strategy is that you can apply this
to every single pass, and really “isolate” each
all be in horizontal formation. The only difference is that the lane
player. Instead of having players in a stack, consider having every
cutters must keep to the side lines to really isolate the one lane
player except for the receiver flood out. The next step is that the
cutter. Once the lane cutter receives the disc, they could repeat
handler should throw to a space they want the receiver to go to.
this strategy with the next lane cutter.
The example below shows how you could use this strategy in the
endzone.
KEY POINTS:
In this play, you start from a vertical stack and each of the lane
1. Other lane cutters must keep their defenders out of the
cutters flood out of the way hopefully drawing in their defenders.
throwing lanes.
The remaining offensive player has the entire center field to move
2. The handlers must be very strong and be able to break force
around. They should cut in any direction and the handler can then
and throw over the top throws to space. This would include
throw a nice hammer, or any type of throw, to open space for the
hammers, scoobers, high release backhand/forehands etc…
receiver to run onto. This should be very easy for the receiver as
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they have both the break and open side to work with.
While this example illustrates one strategy for the endzone
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it would likely be a different setup for the rest of the field. For
example, instead of having the lane cutters flood out, they could
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