Cultimate

Play Quicker, Play Smarter

My name is Ben Wiggins, and I’ve spent the better part of my life striving to play better Ultimate. I’m an average athlete, and I’ve had to find ways to compete against bigger and better jumpers and runners. I’ve been lucky enough to play with and against some of the greatest players in the game and around the world, and I’ve stolen liberally from their training methods, strategies, and techniques. Along the way, I’ve won more than my share of tournaments from Paganello to Potlatch to UPA Nationals. The skills of this game can be mastered without being the tallest or swiftest natural specimen.

I love teaching Ultimate. Do you want to learn more?

Thanks to Cultimate and the directors of the Siege of Limerick tournament this February, I’ll be traveling to Ireland to learn and teach as much as I can. I’m available to put on mini-camps for individual players (either near Dublin or Limerick) or to work through training sessions with teams at any level that want to find new ways to master their craft. Below are the synopses of two camps I’ve run recently: one is a training session with the Boracay Dragons (the World 2nd place beach team from the Philippines) and the other is a mini-camp focusing on individual defense that I hosted in Medellin, Colombia.

If you are interested, please contact Jim Heneghan at toreadordivinity@hotmail.com to make arrangements. Costs of the sessions will be kept as low as possible, are negotiable, and will be used by the tournament to help subsidize travel costs (with any overage going back to the tournament itself). In addition, we may be able to do bye-round practices or sessions at the tournament itself, schedule willing.

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested and have more questions about myself or the types of sessions that we could run. I have been fortunate enough to coach players ranging from the Seattle Sockeye to the Team USA Boys to 4 different University teams to Seattle youth and women’s teams (Moho and Viva).

I will promise you the same thing that I have promised every other player I have worked with: I take coaching Ultimate seriously enough to give you the same level of training and techniques that the best players in the world use against each other in the biggest games. If that sounds like fun to you, we should talk more before the Siege!

Sincerely,

Ben Wiggins

Read on for training session breakdowns

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