Mixed Strategy

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[Leo]

So (looking at it from the other side) against a zone D (any as far as I can see) you'd have an advantage if you'd have a girl on the handling, because that would give you a guy upfield.

what would be other positions to put a girl then? Or would that fully depend on what kind of zone the D is playing?

We tend to put our most inexperienced players on the wings (both on O and D) but I am not sure that is the best solution. A player on that position who knows what (s)he is doing can completely open up the field once the disc is past the cup. Coaching often isn't fast enough to keep the flow going.
Main problem still is patience though.... 

[tiffin]

An interesting way that we played mix, was to put 4 women on the O line, this works well if you have women who are useful. The other team ends up having to put one less guy on, and then we backed our women to get free

[evanhp]

Its going to depend on a lot of things.
The makeup of their team. Do they have strong women? Do they have good women handlers? Are your women fast or more handler type?

You need to look at their team and then decide how to play, it shouldn't ever be the same across the board unless you play the same exact team type.

We got rolled over one game because they started 4 women on O and our women just couldnt keep up and they knew that, thats why they threw it out like that.
They knew our best players were our guys and that they couldnt take our guys on, so they used more of their women and it worked. Our guys eventually would get caught poaching to help and then they would exploit us that way.

I am still learning Mixed strategy which is much different than Open.
Most of all, be smart about it, think of why you would make changes and why you would not.

[canis216]

There's another good aspect to having women handlers that I've really just noticed this year--women are a lot more willing to swing the disc than men are. Too many men have this egotistical need to gain a bunch of yards upfield, stall count or pouching be damned. (I can't tell you how many times this summer/fall I've been standing off to the side of a guy, absurdly wide-open because of a pouch, and seen the idiot force some junk throw upfield to a dude who's covered.) As a result we have stupid turnovers, or we just stay stuck on the sideline the whole point. When I handle with women, the disc actually gets off the sideline! The stall counts stay low! Flow happens! Miracle of miracles! (Props to the Albuquerque ladies, in particular.) Women who can handle are worth their weight in gold, especially at mid- and lower-level events where guys are most resistant to running smart offense.

[evanhp]

another thing about women handlers is they're usually much more patient as well, this goes along with canis comment.
if you can free up another guy in the stack by using a really good women handler than that can help a lot as well.

other simple things like, alternating women/men in the stack is another thing we do, just to even up the field space and timing.

[Mortakai]

Anyone ever seen a 3 woman cup? I have seen it once I assume the goal was to have all your guys out to get D's but it didn't really work the ladies got worn down with lots of swinging. Just thought it was interesting that they even tried it.

On one of my summer teams, we excel(s/ed) at putting 3 women in the wall in a 1-3-2-1 zone. We (the women actually) called it a vaginal wall ... or vadge wall for short. Couple that with a rabbit who excels at hand-blocks and we're golden. Then the girls break deep on a turn and at least one of them would hit the end-zone fully isolated and unguarded and that's how we'd score most of our defensive points.