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Ultimate Frisbee Influences Workbook

A local ultimate team is planning a welcoming, competitive season. Use the case information and your knowledge of ultimate frisbee to investigate how biophysical, sociocultural, environmental and te ao Māori influences can shape participation and performance. Give specific examples and explain your reasoning.

Read the season snapshot

A community ultimate team in Aotearoa New Zealand practises outdoors on grass. It has players with a range of experience and fitness. The team uses Spirit of the Game: players help make fair calls, communicate respectfully and resolve disagreements together. Some players would like more mixed-gender opportunities. Others say transport, equipment costs and confidence can make it harder to join in.

1.Which factor from the season snapshot is sociocultural rather than biophysical?

Players’ cardiovascular fitness
The team’s interest in mixed-gender opportunities
A player’s sprint speed
The effect of fatigue on throwing accuracy

2.Select all the biophysical factors that could influence a player’s performance in ultimate frisbee.

Agility when changing direction
Hand-eye coordination when catching
Whether equipment costs are affordable
Cardiovascular endurance during repeated runs
A teammate’s cultural background

3.Players discuss a disputed foul calmly and agree how to restart play. Explain why this example is sociocultural, and name one positive effect it could have on the team.

Practice condition

Completed catches out of 20

Notes

Dry grass, light wind

Firm footing; disc flight mostly steady

Wet grass, gusty wind

Slippery footing; disc flight less predictable

4.Use the practice table to identify one environmental factor that changed and explain how it could have contributed to the difference in completed catches.

5.The team recorded fewer catches in the wet, gusty session. Does this prove that weather alone caused the change? Give one reason for your answer.

TrueFalse

6.Complete the sentence: In a team setting, kotahitanga is often understood as unity, manaakitanga as care and respect for others, and whanaungatanga as building relationships and a sense of connection. Together, these values can help a team create a more environment.

7.Match each influence category with the example that best fits it.

Biophysical
Sociocultural
Environmental
Te ao Māori values

Team expectations about mixed-gender participation
Practising kotahitanga by working towards a shared team goal
Wind and wet grass affecting play
Agility and coordination when cutting to catch a disc

8.A player has strong throwing technique but feels unwelcome because teammates dismiss their ideas. Explain how a sociocultural influence could limit how effectively that player uses a biophysical skill during a game.

9.Recommend two practical changes the team could make to reduce barriers to participation. Include one change related to access or cost and one change that supports a welcoming team culture. Explain how each could help.

10.Plan one adjustment for a practice on wet, windy grass that supports both performance and safety. Explain which influence it addresses and how the team could check whether the adjustment helped.