I got a couple of questions about USDDN judging sent to me via a Facebook message from Mila, who lives in Moscow, Russia. Mila handles judging for the Disc Hunters, a Russian Disc Dog Club. It’s a two part-er so I’ll take it in chunks…

Body Rolls really are easy. All it takes is a little bit of knowledge and a tiny tap from the tips of your fingers to start the disc racing across your body.

Alright… I got some good news and I got some bad news…

Good News

The good news is that the Toolkit has gone out this morning.

Bad News

The bad news is that it went out to the DVD printing company and won’t be back in my hands for at least 5 business days… I overnighted the master DVD this morning and expect it to be completed and ready to ship on Friday the 16th. They should go out Monday the 19th.

I don’t mean to make light of the situation, I really appreciate all of you early adopters on this project. Your advance purchases funded the initial 100 units of the DiscDogger’s Toolkit and brought it across the finish line. I cannot thank all of you enough for taking advantage of this initial offering.

I still do not have a concrete delivery date, but I … Read More »

Disc Dog Elements are online Disc Dog training modules focused on one particular element of the game. Wanna work on your Throwing? Sign up for the Throwing Element. Interested in Flatwork? Take Flatwork. Focus for 14 days on any one of the six elements you want.

Once you are more than comfortable with the 4 steps you can go ahead and get started working on actual throwing.

You want to break the throw down in to two steps:

1-2

Start with one, making sure your disc is perfectly in line with your arm and that the disc reaches back in that channel as you step back to hit one. Pause for a quarter moment…

Add the Cha, keeping your weight back and opening the hips a little bit and hitting 2. Wait here for a full moment.

…wait…

This break here is very helpful and can be critical to some people being able to grasp distance technique. If you are too fast in moving to 3, you will experience problems.

3-4

Once you have a nice pause at 2 you can then go 3-4, which is just a simple back hand throw. I’d stay … Read More »

The other day, we co-hosted a newscast with Sarah Hill and KOMU 8 via a Google+ Hangout with 9 dogs and a Stunt Kitty. It was a great experience.

We’ve been using Google+ Hangouts in our distance learning classes for group video chat and it’s really changed our game when it comes to distance learning. We’re able to work with groups of people in real time on video and deliver live instruction. Sarah, head of the Missouri School of Journalism, is leveraging g+ Hangouts for local media in Columbia, Missouri.

This opportunity cropped up as Sarah and I bumped into each other on Google+. I think this kind of thing is going to happen a lot over there on g+ in the future…

The dogs and LaVerne were amazing! A 1 and a half hour duration stay with 9 dogs and 1 cat … Read More »

We were, once again, 4 days behind on our VloMo11 submissions but we’ve got 4 short vids coming out today…

Here’s +Apryl Lea being dog pillow. How many dogs use you as a dog pillow?

VloMo11 Day 21 @ PVybe – 30 Videos in 30 Days

So Spooky Jam 2011 is history. Apryl, Abby and I really enjoyed going through all the videos and we’ve gotten great feedback from many, many people, so I think it’s safe to assume that other people had just as much fun as we did. But the people who had the most fun, for sure, were the people that got spooky and dressed up, jammed, and then edited their videos.

Apryl, Abby and I are all bummed that we did not participate in the video production this year, and we’ll be back – en force – next year with some super spooky vids.

Before I officially announce the winners, I’d like to thank everyone who entered this years contest and rocked out. You awed us, made us laugh and entertained us. I’d like to thank our sponsors: DK Vaulting Vests, Good Dog Sports, … Read More »

We’ve had some great Spooky Jam Entries so far… I’m just trying to “Catapult the Propaganda” here… Here’s the Link:

http://pvybe.com/spooky-jam-2011/

Do it LaVerne!!!