Here is an excerpt from the Tao of Disc Dog.
The proof copy is in and last night I ran through the first half of the book with a final edit mentality. Not many changes, but meaningful ones. Whoo boy am I glad I spotted that massive error in my previous audio excerpt.
Hope you enjoy this one and that it has some meaning for you.
The book will be at the printers for the mass run this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Super excited!
Shapes are more than just the trail left by the dog on the field, and the patterns created by the dog after the catch. Shapes differ from Flatwork
Flatwork is the stuff that happens between the catches. How the team moves and transitions, often without the disc, is flatwork. Flatwork concepts in disc dog are taken from the agility and herding... More, and higher level Shapes should not rely solely on how the dog releases after a catch. Shapes are how the dog moves to navigate the catch.
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Flatwork is the simple application of positional pressure and reward Placement. Expressing and executing that simple application to get the type of movement you want is anything but simple, but it is that easy.
There is a lot more to a vault than the definition. There is a reason you can’t just watch a YouTube video and get an understanding of the vaulting process. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you know how to do it, or how it is done; performance is not understanding. This is very evident when it comes to vaulting.
Thanks to some new fangled TimeLord technology at UPS, my new book, the Tao of DiscDog, arrived in 24 hours from NY. It wasn’t supposed to arrive until Monday. Pretty awesome.
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Backchaining a routine is a simple process. Simply break up the routine into sequences or modules. And start with the last sequence, even if it is just a dog catch.
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