Endzone Plays - Endzone Soup This play is an option that can be used either against teams that mark the stack cuts very well or in situations when you want only your handlers to be involved. The premise is that a dump to the forced side is an easy throw. From this throw a good handler can cut away into the forced area. Since the defender is already on the non-force side (he was marking after all) the path to the endzone for the handler is rather open. The play starts by the on disc handler either checking the disc in or making a fake to the stack. The dump handler checks into his defender and then swings back around for the force side dump. As soon as the dump is thrown the first handler should break hard to the corner. A quick catch and throw and you score. If the dump defender is overly active and prevents this throw then we produce two other possible cuts. Notice that as the dump handler is cutting the offensive player at the front of the stack cuts out and away. This is to clear out the first defender (who is usually the defender poaching off into the throwing lanes). When the first option doesn’t present itself the handler fakes with the disc to signal the second option is in play. At that point both the second player in the stack and the last player make cuts. Against a weak mark the front cut is a quick strike possibility. Otherwise, the deep cut from the back of the stack will often succeed. Notice that the remaining two players drift back and away to try and keep their defenders busy and unable to help out. Soup's on. References Athan Spiros http://www.menalto.com/EbbAndFlow