Directional Feeding
Directional Feeding is the underlying essence of disc dog freestyle. As a concept, it consists of reading the dog’s line and delivering a well placed…
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Oppositional Feeding
Oppositional Feeding is the opposite of Directional Feeding. The handler throws a disc in the opposite direction that the dog is moving. Oppositional Feeding is…
Oppositional Feeding Applications
Pressure generated by dogs with lots of drive can be reduced by using Oppositional Feeding. It is a great tool for slowing dogs down and reducing thei…
Disc Dog Flatwork: Oppositional Feeding
Oppositional Feeding is a technique that I have been using for some time now to slow my dogs down a bit and get them to settle in and work away from m…
Disc Dog Flanking and Feeding
The first steps of Practical Flatwork are Setting the Flank and Directional Feeding. Both of these skills have huge impact in how handlers...
Disc Dog Flatwork – Are You Feeding or Leading?
Are you feeding your dog's patterns or leading them? Creating and maintaining cool patterns in freestyle disc is a balancing act...
Training Triad | End the Victory Lap – Shaping the Release
After a dog catches the disc they break off the attack and move to regroup or to a ready position. The movement after the catch can be called the Rele…
Team Movement Transformation in 7 Sessions with Obi
Flatwork with Obi, aka: "Not a Border Collie", has been almost a weekly feature on DiscDogger Weekly. Obi is Apryl's dog, so the videos are pretty muc…
Disc Quan Do Yellow Belt Test – Installing the Cued Drop and Cleaning Up Communication
Laurent and Gypsie have been working Disc Quan Do in the Digital Dojo. For the last week, we’ve been hanging out in the Dojo in the mornings chattin…
Setting a Working Flank with Vaults and Overs
Vault to Flank Setting the Flank after a Vault or Over is a really simple task. All you have to do is turn in the…
Disc Dog Flatwork Session with Loot
Any place out to your left or right side, further than Heel or Side position, that area is your Flank. When your dog is out there to your side a ways …
PVybe Disc Dog Camp – Learning to Drop
Laura starts out by freeshaping the Drop and adjusting her position so Lakota doesn't get to drop discs in front of her at her feet. Once the Drop is …
Drop with Prima and Hops
Here's Hops and Prima working on their drop skills. Both of them do not drop particularly well. We do some freeshaping of the Drop and cuing the Drop …
Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon (PVR)
The Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon is a flatwork pattern we developed to help handlers learn to move their dogs around the field and also to help handlers esca…
Pawsitive Vybe Disc Dog Training Menu – Jamming in 57 Flavors
Thinking about working some disc dog stuff with Pawsitive Vybe? Here are 57 lessons that are available in a seminar or camp. Each of these lessons can…
Learning to Run Patterns – Drill #1
One thing that separates the Pros from the soon to be Pros is Throwing With Intent, intending to throw to a spot at a particular distance, height and …
Dexter Disc Dog Seminar Followup – Winter ’09
Seminar Notes Pawsitively Pawsitive is nice and cozy. The floor’s a little small for disc dogging stuff, but totally safe and the tight confines gave…
PVybe Life Episode 3 – Merry New Year!
Here’s the third episode of the PVybe Show. We just got done with disc dog camp and got some video of the trip and some…
