DiscDog Triad: Release | Reorient | Approach
The dog Releases after the catch, Reorients to the handler, and then Approaches. Each of these are key criteria and need to be assessed in real time.
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Rec’d on YT | Philosophy Friday: Play+, Primal Games, Horizons & Focus | DiscDog Dojo #130 🐶🧠🎮 Take 3 – ARRGH!!
It’s Philosophy Friday, and we’ve got the dream team assembled: Epic 🐶, King 🐶, CupCake 🧁 & Ken Du 🐶. Join us for an illuminating…
Training Triad: Dismiss | Explore | Recall
Dismiss your dog early and often. Let your dog Explore while dismissed. Recall with the intent to Dismiss again and repeat the process.Dismiss to Capi…
Training Triad: Dismiss | Observe | Capture (DOC)
With the dog dismissed the Handler becomes an Observer. And when the handler becomes an observer honest shaping of behavior can happen.
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…
Cookie Class Excerpt: Marking Orientation & Pedestal Circuit
Patrons only Cookie Class excerpt: Finn & Jake work on engaging for cookies and Elysia & Odie work on a Pedestal Circuit in this weekly Patrons Only C…
Routine Building with Cookies
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…
Bite as Cookie
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…
Oppositional Feeding for Drop
Oppositional Feeding is a flatwork pattern where the handler delivers discs to the dog in the opposite direction of the dog’s movement. Oppositional feeding has…
Dismissing the High Drive Dog
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 for Engagement
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…
Marty McFly Disc Dog Puppy Jam
Let's go Back to the Future with Apryl Lea & Marty McFly from 2017. In one of Marty's first field jams, Apryl and the young man work on staying engage…
Back to the Future | Marty McFly Puppy Bitework
Going back in time can be very enlightening. In this segment we go back to 2017 to observe Apryl & Marty McFly doing some itsy bitsy puppy bitework. W…
Disc Dog Puppy Bitework | Details
DiscDog Bitework is an amazing, low impact exercise for puppies of all ages. In addition to teaching the basic mechanics of the game: Bite, Drop, and …
Getting Aggressive
Once you’re reliably getting Terminators and can miss one or 2 and still get a Terminator, it’s a no brainer to start to get more…
Everything Your Puppy Needs to Know About Team Movement in 5 Minutes
This method teaches a puppy everything they need to know about Team Movement in 5 minutes and immediately translates to disc play. It delivers 5 set u…
Puppy’s First Disc Dog Jam | Zappa the GrassHoppa
Zappa is a 17 week old puppy who has never played disc. This is a typical introductory puppy training session for us, meaning it is anything but typic…
Epic’s Clever Set Up Moves | Volume 1 Part II | Vaults and Flips to Flanks
Set Up Moves are, in essence, Interior Flatwork, with an eye towards setting up a trick rather than moving the dog or setting up a simple throw and ca…
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Making the Play
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Patron’s Choice: Routine Building | Skills Demonstration and Demonstration of Skill
Sneak Peak Access for Patrons Only… Public Access Dec 9 | MOVE!!! You are NOT a Spectator
Once you are done with your job, MOVE. Disc comes out …