Performance vs Understanding – Context vs Concept
Performance can be based upon conceptual or contextual understanding. How does a handler communicate conceptual understanding to the dog and avoid per…
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Contextual vs Conceptual Understanding in Dog Training
What if it's not the failure of the dog to generalize the skill but the failure of the handler to teach the root concept of the skill in the first pla…
Contextual Understanding is Like Conversational Spanish
Learning a foreign language from a conversational angle is all the rage these days. Instead of focusing on grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, the very concepts…
Play+ Universe
The Play+ Universe is a map of your dog training universe. Everything you’ve ever done or thought can be placed on this map. Everything your…
Ecological and Enactive Aspects of the Primal Elements of Play+
The Primal Elements of Play are a featured aspect of Play+, and are shaped and honed as a product of embodied experiences. Over the course of the deve…
Enriched Marking: Clear, Complicated, and Complex
Enriched Marking is a key attribute of Play+. Skinner Rocks, but Pavlov rules. The process of play runs through 2 poles — the Physical to the Mental…
Play+ | The Primal Elements of Play
The Primal Elements in Play+ serve as the fundamental building blocks that shape the entire play experience. They are the core ingredients that define…
Expectancy
Expectancy in the Play+ context is a multi-faceted concept that embodies a dog's anticipation or prediction of future events or outcomes within a play…
Prehension
In Play+, "Prehension" is a concept borrowed from the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. It refers to the process by which the dog perceives and in…
Satisfaction of the Process
In the Play+ philosophy, "Satisfaction of the Process" refers to the fulfillment derived from successful participation and completion of the training …
Actualized Skills
Actualized Skills in Play+ refer to the manifest abilities of the dog, developed through training and practice, and utilized effectively within the pl…
Concrescence
Concrescence is a 3 part decision making process created by Alfred North Whitehead. Images are screen caps from the video below hat tip to Matthew…
What Is a Duration Behavior?
Ron Watson lays out the concept of Duration behaviors and discusses how they work.
Class Excerpt | Braking on the Crossing Pass Form
Ron & Epic do a little Tuesday Afternoon Disc Quan Do laying out some practical advice and practical application of the Yellow Belt Crossing Pass Form…
Drop Problems? Do Before Cue for Responsive Drops
It's quite hard to flow with a dog who doesn't drop on cue. This problem is greater if you treat action and interaction with the handler and disc as a…
Next
“Next” encapsulates the dog’s anticipation of a forthcoming reward, sparking motivation and excitement. This expectancy creates a driving force that propels the dog through training,…
Ballwork – Disc Dog Vault Discrimination
Delivering a conceptual understanding of vaulting is absolutely essential for reliable performance of the vaulting skill. You can either teach these skills as root concepts…
Flip to Dog Catch with Blue
0:00 – 0:23 – The flip and catch are working great. Nice gainer flip for a well established target. Catching Blu on your hip nicely.…
Pawsitive Vybe S2E3 – Crossing the Threshold
One simple concept, properly applied could be used to make your dog stop and look at you when a door was opened or an open door was encountered,withou…
Performance vs Understanding – Human Clicker Game
This is a few minutes of a human clicker game we played at a recent Discdog B&B. The idea here is to teach a person to perform a skill using a clicker…