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Special Delivery – Advanced Disc Throwing

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  • Week 1 – Theory and Placement
    Get the skinny on Throwing with Intent, Timing, Placement and Throwing Mechanics

    Week 2 – Freestyle
    15+ Advanced Releases – Brushes, Airbounces, Butterflies, Fidgets, and Drills and Skills for success.

    Week 3 – Distance
    Four simple steps and a few simple rules for distance throwing.

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  • Theory and Placement

    Intent and confidence are key aspects to quality throwing

    Throwing is a key element in so many ways for your Disc Dog. A well placed disc can make an average dog look amazing and a poorly placed disc can make the best dog look painfully average. Get the skinny on Throwing Theory, Practical Applications and Technique.

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  • Freestyle

    Get Function then Get Fancy!

    This is where it gets freaky. 12 major creative releases with countless variations on each. Learn key learning concepts like back-chaining and juggling criteria.

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  • Distance

    4 Steps to Big Distance

    Distance is about doing less with more of your body. Learn how to leverage your big muscles to move your body and make your arm a vehicle.

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About

An accomplished dog trainer, dog sport coach and dog behavior expert, Ron Watson of PVybe spends every minute he can collaborating with dog lovers all over the world.

Specializing in canine performance, learning theory and behavior, Ron along with the fabulous Apryl Lea, run real world and online seminars as well as personal training, clinics, and Hangouts.

He lives to talk dogs, so go ahead and ask Ron a question via our contact page, Facebook or on Google+.

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Backchaining an X Step
Backchaining an X Step

We are backchaining this skill, starting one step away from the finish and then falling into the correct behavior. This position makes it highly...

Throwing Discs for Distance in 4 Steps
Throwing Discs for Distance in 4 Steps

Distance throwing is a highly complex skill. The entire body is in action and must work in concert, feet set up the hips, hips...

Brushing Basics
Brushing Basics

Brushing discs, aka - MAC (Mid Air Correction), is actually quite a bit easier than most people think. They can be a bit hard...

Closed Shoulder
Closed Shoulder

A critical part of delivering accurate and powerful distance tosses is where the shoulder is when the disc is released. If you look at...

Distance Throwing Isolation Drills
Distance Throwing Isolation Drills

We do two distance learning drills here at PVybe designed to isolate portions of the body that are moving in concert on your big...

Push Airbounce
Push Airbounce

You can also use this swooping kind of entry to do the Push Airbounce going backwards, as in the build up to the

Manufacturing Success
Manufacturing Success

Success is contagious and habit forming. Failure is contagious and habit forming. Which one do you do more of in your throwing practice?

Flamingo
Flamingo

The Flamingo throw really looks like it’s got a ton of stuff going on. It doesn’t, it’s an illusion. That’s not to say it’s...

Flamingitis
Flamingitis

The Flamingitis throw is pretty spiffy. It’s clean, sharp and really pops. It’s also pretty simple. It's similar in position to the Flamingo, but...

Cointoss Butterfly
Cointoss Butterfly

The cointoss butterfly is a very cool, very reliable butterfly that rotates 90 degrees - or sideways in relation to the handler., making for...

Rock In Rock Out
Rock In Rock Out

One of the hardest things to do while throwing discs is to relax. It is surprising how tense your arm and wrist are even...

Body as Flick
Body as Flick

Many great throwers do this so naturally that it looks as if they must have magical Wristbands of Hercules or something. Now a huge...

Jazz
Jazz

We are going to backchain this skill. You’ll start with a very simple, rough approximation of the finish product - a blind backwards release...

Airbounce
Airbounce

The key to throwing the Airbounce is to have a perfectly clean release at the simplest expression of the throw. If you can’t perform...

Special Delivery Documentation
Special Delivery Documentation

This is a document that has class information on it. It is downloadable on GoogleDocs.

Bent Cavaletti
Bent Cavaletti

Cavalettis have been used to adjust horses strides for a long time. The Bent Cavaletti drill is about forcing collection and creating an angle...

The Bilderback
The Bilderback

A special Fidget created by Matt Bilderback. It's the only fidget that provides for a switching of grips from High to Low or Low...

Basic Fidgets
Basic Fidgets

Here are some basic Fidgets: the Bloom, The Fonzi & the Weightless and the tricks to the trick. Easy, Simple & fun!

Intro to Fidgets
Intro to Fidgets

Fidgets are tricks we do with the disc in our hands, kind of fidgeting around. They make you look and feel cool and are...

Wall and Pole Drill
Wall and Pole Drill

This is a very simple drill that you can use to further hone your precision and accuracy. All you need is a wall that...

Disc Management – Handling and Throwing Two Discs in One Hand
Disc Management – Handling and Throwing Two Discs in One Hand

Efficient and competent disc management is more than just racing around picking discs up off the ground.

Human Freestyle as Basis for Learning
Human Freestyle as Basis for Learning

Playing catch with another human is probably the best and fastest way to improve our throwing skills. Develop a game of flowing catch. This...

The Flick Myth in Disc Sports
The Flick Myth in Disc Sports

There is no wrist Flick in Frisbee. At least not in the way most people understand the of flicking the wrist. The Flick in...

Interception vs Chase
Interception vs Chase

Most dogs jump for Frisbees because they missed. They have over pursued, ran past the target and make a last ditch effort to make...

Space Time Continuum
Space Time Continuum

Everybody knows that disc placement is key to making disc dogs look good. One thing most people don’t think about is the timing of...

Step, Step, Collect… Jump!
Step, Step, Collect… Jump!

We pattern train many things here at Pawsitive Vybe, but probably the most important pattern for the game of disc is Step, Step Collect......

Runners and Floaters
Runners and Floaters

Getting a disc to hang up in the air for as long as possible increases the likelihood of your dog leaping. Floaters maximize hangtime,...

Precision and Accuracy Drill – Throwing Floaters
Precision and Accuracy Drill – Throwing Floaters

Most new players and players that lack confidence in their throwing ability often avoid throwing into the wind...

Darts vs Baseballs
Darts vs Baseballs

There are many ways we can think of throwing technique. An interesting one is Darts vs Baseballs. It's really a pretty big deal.

Catch With Curves
Catch With Curves

The idea here is to get mastery over curving the disc so we can throw straight when we need to. The full range of...

Learning to Curve for a Self Correcting Throw
Learning to Curve for a Self Correcting Throw

Disc Doggers get driven mad by those discs that curve off to the left or right. It seems as if sometimes we just can’t...

Counter Conditioning the Head Down Gallop
Counter Conditioning the Head Down Gallop

Here are some common approaches we can take to mend bad habits, specifically tailored to ending the Head Down Gallop...

Curving for Collection
Curving for Collection

This drill combined with short toss and short to medium interception type catch drills can dramatically improve a dog's patience...

Vault Tosses – Learning a Horizontal Hover
Vault Tosses – Learning a Horizontal Hover

Our dogs pressure us with their movement every time we throw a vault. Their movement and timing affects the throw...

Get Skype and Get in Touch
Get Skype and Get in Touch

Download and install Skype so you can participate in group chat throughout the course of class. We keep Skype...

Throwing With Intent
Throwing With Intent

Throwing with Intent is throwing a disc to your dog with the intent to make them look good. Throwing the disc to promote a...

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