Bobby: Quick Defensive strategy
I tried this today, I think it should work pretty well:
When playing against a ho-stack and the disc was on the sideline, I covered my man in on an in-cut but the throw didn't go off to him. I heard the the stall count at 5, so I quickly checked behind me and saw that I had a teammate deep so I stopped where I was and clogged the lane expecting my teammate to cover me deep (should have yelled but it slipped my mind, obviously very important to do), playing a poach D to try to get the stall for my team. Probably some holes in this strategy as in all poach D's, but I felt that this was a particularly good opportunity to poach, we forced them to throw a stall 8 wobbly dump throw which was disappointingly not D'ed, but it did put a fair amount of pressure on the thrower and we got a good result out of it.
The real point of this though is that on D you should always be looking for opportunities to play a little bit of poach D if it is beneficial, for the beginner player it is something you should observe and register but perhaps not act on, but it can be a play that makes getting a D possible for your team while conserving energy and can therefore be extremely valuable.
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Ahahaha you're starting to play like me! Not to say that that is necessarily a good thing but... :P
Anyway, yeah there are definitely moments like that where you can poach, but the most important thing is being aware of what's going on around you. This can be devastatingly effective if you have other defenders who are equally aware, but also devastating if you don't, or are up against handlers who can make minced meat out of such poaching. I'm sure you've noticed that Sami and I would always work together on defense to nullify cutters who are otherwise much more athletic than us.