Dumping

sMITe has many young players, and therefore when we try to play possession oriented offense, we rely heavily on the dump. It's a fairly simple concept - give a short pass back to a handler, but there are many nuances and differences in how you can run the dump.

A classic dump is to stand about 10 feet away from the thrower, opposite the mark, and make a few jukes to either direction to lose your defender. The dump is usually given as a soft backhand. The benefit of this is that the dump throw is fairly easy - all the thrower has to do is recognize when the dump is open and throw a short pass in that direction. However, you often don't get enough separation to get a break swing off, so you just lose a few yards without the mitigating effect of gaining break side progress.

Another dump that many teams use is to stand on the break side of the thrower, about 10 yards away, with two areas of attack: up the line, or back towards the break side of the field. This dump results in either a power position for the handler when she gets the disc with momentum going up the line, or improved field position with the possibility of flowing down the break side. This requires a more reliable thrower, however, because the around dump is generally angled slightly away, and the thrower needs to be able to make that under pressure of the mark.

sMITe has started moving a bit more towards the first type of dumping, partly because of the increased ease of dumping for newer throwers, but also because with horizontal offense, not changing the position of the disc from the middle of the field is actually a benefit!

Points of note:
If the dump defender is face guarding, then the thrower should initiate the dump and put it to the easier side for the dump to receive the disc.
If the dump defender is looking only at the disc, then the dump makes the move away from the defender.
If you have the disc, turn completely towards your dump and stay turned to your dump until stall 8 (then turn upfield and huck it)