What is the term for calling interference when a teammate blocks your guard, allowing your mark to escape?

Study for the Ultimate Frisbee Exam with interactive quizzes, flashcards, and detailed explanations. Enhance your skills and boost your confidence. Be exam-ready with comprehensive practice tests!

Multiple Choice

What is the term for calling interference when a teammate blocks your guard, allowing your mark to escape?

In Ultimate, a pick is an offensive foul where a teammate positions themselves in the path of a defender guarding a teammate, creating a screen that slows or blocks the defender. When your teammate blocks your guard, it frees you (your mark can escape) and that specific action is called a pick. This term is used to describe the illegal or legal screen set by the offense to gain open space for a throw or cut. The other options don’t fit as precisely: a block is too generic, a foul refers to contact or other violations, and interference is a broader term usually related to contact affecting a throw or catch rather than the screen itself.

In Ultimate, a pick is an offensive foul where a teammate positions themselves in the path of a defender guarding a teammate, creating a screen that slows or blocks the defender. When your teammate blocks your guard, it frees you (your mark can escape) and that specific action is called a pick. This term is used to describe the illegal or legal screen set by the offense to gain open space for a throw or cut. The other options don’t fit as precisely: a block is too generic, a foul refers to contact or other violations, and interference is a broader term usually related to contact affecting a throw or catch rather than the screen itself.

More practice questions