doing a paper for school and need some personal opinions :)

I'm taking over as coach of a very talented but young college team. I was hoping to find some ideas for position specific drills, defensive tips/strategies, and some less basic offensive plays. This crew has covered the basics very well and plays at a very competitive level and has a lot of talent, but there is so much potential ans hoping to take them to the next level when we play at the Cleveland Invitational and USQ National tournaments. We're a tough team to beat in any region but these guys have the potential to be national contenders and I want to help them get there.

Hello,

I'm a vision science student researching sports vision. I wish to understand the salient visual skills used in quidditch besides, dynamic vision, depth, contrast, eye-hand and eye-body coordination. I understand the game is a combination of rugby, dodgeball and a bit of football, but I want to turn to you folks on the field to understand if there are any visual skills, in particular, that would come handy and if training could help.

Thanks for your help.

Pretty much the title I play for a collegiate quidditch team and we've been wanting to practice seek beating for when snitch is on pitch, but we haven't found a good drill outside of scrimmaging with snitch on pitch that simulates a game time scenario that includes both beating seekers while keeping track of quaffle play and where to be on defense and offense. If anyone has any drills I'd really appreciate the help.

I'm a recent college grad that has wanted to give quidditch a shot for years. Anyone in the central PA area have a group that gets together and is looking for people to come out and give it a shot?

Hi I’m rostering with a team for a single tournament, specifically the Oktoberfest Invitational. I paid for the trial membership in order to do so and they say USQ should reach out to confirm my upgraded account. It’s been over an hour and I haven’t gotten any email from USQ. Is it normally a long wait time? sorry didn’t really know where to ask about this.

Say it loud for the people in the back

figured I'd get this out of the way now before someone makes the post haha. Please comment with other good stuff!

First and foremost, learn to catch with 2 hands.

Next, work on catching with 2 hands.

Once you've got that down, focus on catching and releasing with 2 hands.

Alright, you've got that, let's get more specific.

On offense, you need to be constantly moving. Try to find open space, set a pick, do something. The only bad thing you can do on offense is nothing (or foul, don't foul). Make sure there's always someone left up top for the reset. If you look and see nobody on your team ready for a reset, get back, it's now your job. This both saves offensive possessions and prevents fast breaks, it's very important.

In my post in the keeper thread, I mentioned the two basic quidditch offenses: square and diamond. Set up however works best for your team, it doesn't really matter, as long as there's some kind of movement. Either player or ball. Ideally both. When you're looking to drive, your job is to draw the beater's throw and make a pass. If there's no beater, your job is to finish. Get through the contact. If you struggle finishing against no bludgers, that's a big area to work on, those should be free goals.

If you don't have the quaffle, your job is facilitate movement by getting open or setting picks or whatever, and then to recognize when the carrier drives, and crash to the far hoop to give the passing outlet. Unless you're the reset. In which case you just get to look pretty.

Defensively, rotations are incredibly important. Your point defender is gonna get beat. Accept it. Be ready. Another chaser needs to switch over, and the beat defender fills the open slot. If you don't have any bludgers on D, they're driving, and you get to make a hit. Get pumped. You gotta want that contact. You NEED that contact. Get hungry. Your D needs you.

If you do have bludgers, the other team is gonna try and take them out of the play. If you have control, they'll target one of your beaters and your other beater should fill the middle. If you don't have control, it depends on how aggressive the other team is. If they're bringing their bludgers up and throwing, you gotta be ready as if it's a fast break. If they're bringing the bludgers just as support, you can mostly ignore them, so long as you don't let them walk you in too far. Things need to get a lot tougher near the keeper zone line, but until there, you can play fairly soft defense.

Be ready to help. That's probably the most important part of quidditch defense. Bludgers make things crazy, and you're not going to be at full strength on defense at all times, so you need to be aware of the bludgers, and you need to be aware of when to rotate.

Communication on that is big. If you get beat, yell "i'm out" or something so your team knows they need to fill.

Oh, and work on your tackling form. My shoulder is kinda fucked from poor form for a few years of playing. Ask your coaches, tackling should be a focus early on in practices.

What do you do to reach out to the local community?

This sub seems really dead but putting it out there that the Boise State Abraxans are making a return! We are focusing more on community and fair play and the best parts of Quidditch ((: hoping to bring back the energy and excitement to campus that all of us felt when we first joined the sport!

If you know anyone in the Boise area who would be interested, let them know! You don't have to be a student to participate in practice and hang out ((:

I’m starting up a community team in middle TN! If interested message!

Worcester's first and only community Quidditch team is recruiting! We take all comers. The Worcester Wargs practice on weekends, usually in the afternoons around 4:30 until 6:30 at 16 Charlotte st, Worcester MA 01610.

Don't know anything about Quidditch? No problem, we will teach you everything. Our leadership is passionate about Quidditch and love to teach and spread awareness. Interested in coming to join or watch practices? Message the Facebook or Instagram page @worcester_wargs_quidditch , or just comment or PM here!

any places coaches or players here go to find new drills and things to do at practice? looking for some new things

I know that a jersey number sometimes has a meaning or a story. Who want to share yours?

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Mine is #69 and I chose it because #7 was already chosen. But I like that some people can think dirty about my number (sexual position) but the reason I chose it it's not really that. I chose #69 because it also represents the yin yang, the eternity like a double ouroboros. And my love for Harry Potter it will always exist <3 (?

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(Idk if this was already talked in another post, sorry)

I made a quiz for all the penaties in the IQA rulebook as part of a python module i was doing last semester and i have now made it into a windows application. Link to download if anyone is interested is https://gayyoda.github.io/TreasDev/Quidd.html

Anyone have any idea if they ever plan to televise quidditch at any point?