Just Another Epic Jam

Warming Up: Epic Around the World

A clockwise Around the World featuring a Jazz Throw, a Magic SideArm™, and a lazy Backhand. This was part of our warmup.

Flippin’ Epic Juggle

This is one of my favorite sequences. It’s real fast 5 Discs in less than 5 seconds featuring athletic feats for dog and handler. I’m super bummed he crashed a bit here when we missed the stall.

This is the first time we’ve tried the full sequence live speed. We normally stop between the juggle and the dog catch. I’m not sure if we were poorly lined up or I made a bad toss lining up. I’m thinking it might be a bit of both.

Woos & Mo Moves

Super fun sequence for me. It features “Woos”, which I would call an Around n Flip – an around that finishes or resolves in a flip.

All of these moves are set up moves that don’t get a chance to finish before the flip starts. These moves become a unique thing, a melding of the set up move and flip into one distinct trick. I just use an n between the moves to signify they are a single trick vs a progression.

The Woos are first, and these are LeiLei tricks. She rocked these like nobody’s business. They are our first pictures posted on FB. I miss playing with her. Such a beast.

Dueling flips directly out of the clockwise and counter clock Arounds. On the 3rd one, Epic gives the disc back to me, a catch and release move we call a Fish.

Then we roll into our Mo Moves. These are flips that happen before the through and backwards through finish: Through n Flip and Backwards Through n flip. I developed these with Kimo back in 98 and they were HUGE. He really covered a lot of distance on these, and did it safely.

These were a little off time right from the get go. A little problem with the Fish in the Backwards Through n Flip got us off time. He didn’t release the disc in time to be fluid. I think my Through cue could be distracting him.

Heli-In

Heli Flips are flips on the working flank. Heli-In means the dog is flipping towards the handler, kind of like a front cross, and finishing the circle of the working flank.

Epic rocks this skill. Heli flips are great training tools for dogs who are challenged in the flipping department.

I’m trying to make nice Low High tosses here, but it’s a bit awkward. I think I’m getting better at it. It feels right.

Reverse Leg Vaults

The Reverse Leg Vault and Reverse Leg Vault Dog Catch will be our closing sequence again this year.

It’s a tough one to reliably set up in less than 10 seconds. It’s usually easy to set up in about 5-7 seconds, sometimes it’s not, and missing your big finish is no fun at all.

I hope to have them all happen on the run and on the fly in the future, but I think that time is some way off.

Thanks for the Inspiration

This piece was inspired by Cole Newby from the Disc Dog Worldwide Tricks Challenge on Facebook. Thanks a bunch to those who created it.

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