Indoor Ultimate Frisbee is typically played on a gym court rather than a turf field. You can play with your team on any sized court with any sized end zones for practice. At an official tournament the court is usually played on a basketball court sideways from sideline to sideline. In other words, an official full-sized Basketball court will contain two Ultimate fields. The sidelines of the Basketball court will be the beginning of the end zones. The end zone will then be from the sideline to the wall. That’s right, the wall is the back of the end zone which makes for some sick Spiderman Jumps* (and tends to cause some injuries, so be careful!).

The end zone length is only about 2-3 yards which is significantly different than the 25-yard end zone of outdoors. If one or both sides of the end zone do not have a wall then the end zone can be any size, as long as they are both equal. In the image you can see the size of an indoor court relative to an average Basketball court. There are no brick marks since there are no pulls.

Indoor Ultimate Frisbee is super fast-paced. There are no pauses like when a point is scored in outdoor. Instead, when a point in scored the player will simply touch the disc to the ground and they will now be trying to score in the opposite direction. The team that was trying to defend the end zone will now be trying to score in it. After a point there is no turnover, play continues and the team that scored keeps possession. This happens after every point scored.

For example, you can score in an end zone and tap the disc for a point. Instantly after, you can throw the disc to the other end zone in which your teammate catches and taps it for another point. Your teammate can instantly throw it back to you to score a third point. This process could technically be repeated until the defense gets a block.

So many points are scored in indoor Ultimate that the games are often timed instead of point capped. So it is not unusual to see high scores.

Remember to ALWAYS TAP THE DISC!!! Some tournaments allow you to clap the disc to symbolize a point, that’s okay too (be sure to check with the tournament). If a player scores and does not tap the disc to the ground the point is not registered and the end zones do not get flipped. The team that forgot will have to score in the same end zone until the disc is tapped in that end zone.

Subbing is now hockey style, yay! Instead of waiting until the end of the point a player can now run off the court at any time. The official rule is that a player subbing out must cross the sideline before his/her teammate crosses the sideline to come into play. But in most non-official games the players cross each other within the court, as long as the subbing player refrains from affecting play. A player can sub out at any time but must not exit anywhere in the end zone. The player coming in should enter in middle third of the field.

A helpful tip to remember is to never sub on defense. In indoor, Man on Man Defense* is used 99% of the time so when a player subs on defense, his/her mark is completely open until the new player comes into play, which is bad news. The best time to sub is at the instant there is a turnover resulting your team to be on offense.

Some gyms have stationary basketball hoops or hanging ropes. Not to mention ceilings and walls. Unfortunately we have to overcome these obstacles and play around them. If the disc touches any of these obstacles it results in a turnover, even if the flight of the disc is not affected. The disc will be taken from the closest in-bounds position (excluding end zones) where the interference happened.