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Cutting and Clearing
• Start well away from the thrower. Twenty-five or thirty yards, if possible. The more room you have, the better your chances of getting away from your defender.

• Look before you cut. Don’t cut into an area full of people, and make sure that no one else is cutting into the same part of the field.

• If you make a cut but do not receive a pass, immediately clear the area to open up field space for another player to make a cut. Remember to clear at the same speed that you cut. Don’t slow up and hang around near the player with the disc, this gives the person covering you a chance to make a play on the disc even if it is not directed at you.

• If you aren’t sure where to go to clear, head for the sideline farthest from where the disc is. Run down that sideline and try to get back into the stack without getting in any of your players’ way.
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