In this episode Jake Smart talks about building a culture of honest communication and his constraints led approach to teaching.

Jake is one of the best coaches in ultimate frisbee and no stranger to winning. Before joining Brown as a coach, Jake played for the Wisconsin Hodags, another historically great college program. His teams are known for having incredibly efficient offenses and defenses that make opponents always second guessing.

A few of Jake's accolades:

3x College Champion (2 coaching BMo, 1 playing for the Hodags)

2x College D-I Men's Coach of the Year

YCC Champion Coaching Boston BUDA

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0:00 Intro

3:00 Balancing Commitments

4:20 College vs Club vs Pro

7:00 Jake's Coaching Philosophy

13:00 Switching contexts

16:15 Facilitating honest communication

19:30 UAEs

21:05 Receiving imperfect feedback well

23:00 Honest, imperfect feedback might hurt in the moment, but if it makes you better then it's worth it

28:45 Holding things in creates resentment

30:35 Honesty is a two way street

31:20 Almost every criticism you get is right even if the solution is wrong

33:40 When is it time to give feedback?

40:50 Framing friction as an opportunity to get closer

41:55 Elo

46:25 TrueSkill

48:00 How Jake uses Elo in practice

54:10 Practicing "caring about an outcome"

54:55 Jake's practice structure, pro games, anti drill, learning to use the right tool

59:20 The value of playing more, playing age

1:01:00 How to teach during games

1:05:30 BMo's style of play, response to criticisms

1:14:20 Jake's thoughts on offensive structure, clearing, and zone concepts

1:18:15 Reading the field as a player

1:20:30 Brown's understanding of roles

1:23:15 Jake's line calling philosophy

1:28:40 Decision to play zone

1:33:30 Strategizing for the UFA

1:37:30 Balancing Commitments Pt Deux

1:41:00 Transferrable skills between work and frisbee

1:42:45 All-Time Brown

1:44:50 Jake's offensive meta, front dominated vs the cutter driven

1:49:50 Back to the All-Time Brown Team

1:51:25 All-Time Hodag Team

1:54:44 All-Time Hodags vs All-Time Brown

2:00:20 Outro