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Description: Stance Shifting Flip to Through, resolving in BSP in both directions. Method: Counter BSP Flip & Stance Shift Through Clock Pivot Counter with Pressure…

Description: Dog spins and twists in both directions in a controlled manner with a distinct verbal and physical cue. Method: BSP to Low High, Low…

Description: Exercise the Bite, the Drop, a behavior of your choosing and a Wait with Bitework. Make sure to get at least 1 wait before…

Manufacturing the Approach The dog goes to where reinforcement happens, knowing this, to set a particular approach from a particular distance just toss a cookie out…

Historically, handlers have cued vault by tapping the vaulting platform with a disc, believing that the tap was necessary and desirable to cue the dog…

Mechanics Dog is sent through and handler calls wait. Handler turns towards the dog using positional pressure to halt the dog’s momentum. Handler marks wait…

So far we have been thinking of bitework in the context of a game. Sometimes when we take that zoomed out view it is easy…

Do You Have A Reliable Trigger The Low High Toss drops down vertically and bounces up in horizontal, proper disc flying fashion. This bouncing transition…

Those who have worked with us know what Directional Feeding, Directional Leading and the Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon (PVR) are. You are also probably familiar with how…

In an earlier article, Flatwork is Flow, I wrote about the concept of Flatwork in the game of disc: In agility, the stuff that goes…

Description: Four throws in efficient succession: 2 from Basic Standing Position (BSP) Clock and 2 from BSP Counter. Method: Start in BSP Counter Clock. Make…

All of the drills in this weeks lessons need to be transferred from treats to toys. Here are a few concepts we can use to…

Posing is a communication tool for throwing discs to dogs (or people). A pose is a frozen moment of a throw; a key moment of…

For the high drive dog, dismissal is an off switch. It asks her to disengage from the handler and does not allow for interaction until…

Dismissal is kind of the opposite of attention. It means that the handler is unavailable or off limits and is an important concept for making…

The bitework game is very valuable. A cued bite can be all a handler needs to work with dogs in dog sports, but to get…

Description: Alternating Clockwise then counter clockwise throws to a target starting with a Front Cross from BSP positions. Thrown with intent and in dog catchable…