Here’s a quick video of Apryl and Kiva dialing in some sequencing.

I really love the little hitch she came up with – it really fits her style.

I’m pretty excited. We’ve got a video shoot today for foundational disc dog instruction. I’m finally going to be able to work Hops without fear of losing his ‘green-ness’.

Hops has been here for almost 10 days now, and I’ve been holding off because we’re going to do this shoot and I want to work with a green dog.

I thought some of you might want to know where we’re going with this… Here is my cheat sheet that I’ll be using while we’re shooting. Click to go forward… there’s no going back…

{swf}hops{/swf}

Wind Management is a tough skill for all discdoggers. It usually gets better with experience, but the time required to get that experience can be drastically reduced by understanding a few simple principles.

The Knife and the Sail

A disc in the wind can act either as a knife or a sail, and often does both at the same time. When a disc acts as a knife, it cuts through the wind and holds its position. The wind has very little effect on its flight. In order for the disc to act as a knife, there must be sufficient spin, and the rim must be the first part of the disc to be affected by the disc. When a disc acts as a sail, the wind impacts it dramatically. The wind pushes it, sometimes drastically, downwind. For a … Read More »