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Crowdfunding the PVybe Life – Become a Backer of Our Show

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23rd February

The PVybe Life Season 2 is being crowdfunded over on Indiegogo. Get the skinny on how to support the project and help make Season 2 a reality.



PVybe Life Episode 3 – Merry New Year!

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20th January

Here’s the third episode of the PVybe Show. We just got done with disc dog camp and got some video of the trip and some personal work with pretty awesome disc doggers.

0:00 – Rajin’ Cajun evaluation

Gail Mirabella, ex-circus performer and a legend in Dog Frisbee stopped by to hang out and to have us eval this awesome Performance Rescue, Cajun.

Cajun is pretty much perfect according to Gail and also according to what we saw here at PVybe HQ while he was here. We didn’t have the camera out much while he was indoors, and Cajun was a bit distracted on the field.

Apryl works some bitework with him and you get a good chance to see what the guy is made of. He’s awesome and available for adoption, as Gail already has 13 dogs on the road, and Cajun doesn’t get … Read More »



PVybe Life – Episode 2 Season 1 – Merry Christmas!

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19th January

Well we survived another Christmas. Here’s what went down that week… Episode 2 of our pilot season.



Pvybe Life Episode 1 – The Pilot Season’s Pilot

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18th January

Episode 1 of PVybe Life – a Dog Training variety show by Pawsitive Vybe in Kingston NY.



PVybe Life – A Weekly 1/2 Hour Dog Training Lifestyle Show

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7th January

PVybe Life is a dog training variety show with short edutainment pieces based on our dog training and lifestyle. It’s pretty sweet. Each short segment is linked from the YouTube description page and allows you to surf segment by segment.



2002 Winter Incredible Dog Challenge – Holy Cow… and Magic!

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1st December

Pretty sweet disc dog footage here of the 2002 Incredible Dog Winter Challenge. Featuring great players and a truly magical catch…



Fixing a Late Drop with a Give

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23rd November

Alternating between Drop and Give provide a strong contrast between the location of the Give and the lack of location on the Drop. I believe this distinction has helped Hops immensely in just the last 2 sessions. It’s also helped us a ton as a team.



You Sure You are Running Your Dog the Right Way?

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17th November

This one simple adjustment, switching directions, changed Si from a horse chasing a Frisbee to a big cat leaping for it’s prey. The difference could not be more startling. It, literally, freaked me out.



Xs and Os in Terms of Dog Training

16th November

Dog Frisbee is just dog training with a slightly different focus. It’s easy to forget that. When you’re talking about how shapes and patterns develop, the Xs and Os, it can be helpful to fall back on what you know about dog training.



Vocabulary of Xs and Os

8th November

A handy list of Disc Dog Flatwork and Routine terms.






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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...
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 performance based on...
Performance is not Understanding

More lessons in this series:

Human Clicker Game Context vs Concept

Performance is not understanding. Just because your dog has done or is doing a behavior...

Flatwork Session with Rokalele
Ron & Leilani, 12 year old Border Collie, do some Frisbee Dog Flatwork focusing on the Rear Cross and good work on the Flank....
Flatwork Introduction with Loot
Ron Watson gives Loot, 15 month old Border Collie rescue, an introduction to disc dog Flatwork.
PVybe Life Season 2 – Post Project Wrap Up

For the last 47 days we have been running a project on Indiegogo to crowdfund Season 2 of the PVybe Life. It was...

Crowdfunding the PVybe Life – Become a Backer of Our Show
The PVybe Life Season 2 is being crowdfunded over on Indiegogo. Get the skinny on how to support the project and help make Season...