Date: January 28
Location: Houston, TX
Fee: Free to all teams attending Houston Anti Freeze
Email: contactus (at) withoutlimitsultimate dot com
Showdown and Inferno will be leading a skills clinic at Houston Antifreeze in January. This clinic will cater to players on college teams from around the state.
Sign-ups are now open here. See below for station descriptions and instructor bios.
Breaking The Mark
This clinic explores the techniques and strategies to breaking any mark. Learn how to make your mark seem non-existent.
Instructor: Cara Crouch
Club: Texas Showdown, Atlanta Ozone
College: University of Texas Melee, Callahan Winner 2005,
All-Region 2003-2005
Other: Team USA 2009, University of Texas Melee coach, USA Ultimate Certified Level 1 coach
Instructor: Meredith Hicks
Club: Texas Showdown, Chewbacca Defense
College: Texas A&M University Stacked
24/7 – How to Get Open
We’ll go over cutting basics, technique and body mechanics of different types of cuts, and tricks to use to get open on someone one on one.
Instructor: Jess “Venus” Huynh
Club: Texas Showdown, Portland Schwa
College: University of Southern California Hellions of Troy, University of Oregon Fugue
Instructor: Cat Belgarde
Club: Houston Inferno, LA Fusion
College: William and Mary, UCLA BLU
Advanced Throwing
The most logical place for improvement for an intermediate or advanced college player is throws. Learn some tricks of the trade and get individual instruction on how to improve your throws and take your game to the next level.
Instructor: Katey Forth
Club: Texas Showdown, Great Britain National Team, Great Britain World Games Team, 8 Paganello World Beach Cup titles, Bliss
Other: Texas A&M University Stacked coach, Rice University Miss Red coach, University of Texas TUFF and University of Texas Melee trainer, leader of multiple clinics and training sessions around the world
Throwing for Distance & The Pull
In this station, you’ll learn how to get your big throws to go further. You’ll also learn how to pull or refine your pull to stay higher, go further, and float going both up and down wind.
Instructor: Tina Woodings
Club: Texas Showdown
College: University of Texas Melee
Other: University of Texas Melee coach, Ultimate Players League of Austin President
One-on-one: Gaining the Edge on Defense
This clinic will focus on how to dictate on defense and neutralize the advantage the offense has of choosing where to cut. We will talk about positioning, microcharging and reading the disc in the air.
Instructor: Lindsay Worthington
Club: Texas Showdown, Bay Area Homebrood
College: University of California-Berkeley Pie Queens
Other: Texas A&M University Stacked coach, University of Texas Melee coach, University of Texas Mayhem coach
Instructor: Marjo Manalang
Club: Texas Showdown
College: University of Texas Melee
Marking
Marking isn’t a time to rest. Your entire team is counting on you to take away a huge piece of the field and this is no easy task! In this clinic we’ll cover the key aspects of a good mark, and explain how one of the keys to elite-level ultimate is marking.
Instructor: Kim Breese
Club: Houston Inferno, Texas Showdown, Hooray
College: Penn State University Isis
Other: Rice University Miss Red coach