So our first UpDog in St Louis went well. We had a terrific turn out with nearly 120 runs. It was a beautiful day and, I think we all had a great time. I had some audio trouble and was unable to run everything wirelessly from my phone and was not as efficient as I would have liked, but Paige Curtis stepped up to rescue me, manning the sound to make the trains run on time and provide some fun sound effects and tunes for us for most of the day.
Thanks a ton to Barb Champaigne for stepping up to judge the Dog category in FS and do some time as a field judge and to Deb Mardin for covering for Apryl at work so that Apryl could be our FS Team Judge. Thanks also go out to Aleaha Parmeley for stepping up to be the Execution judge.
Drone’s eye view of the Pawsitive Vybe UpDog Pac Man Jam Field | Aug 1, 2021. Wakawakawaka…
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4Way PlayPlay is willing, self-induced engagement in, and the experience of, novel, consequent opportunity.
Toss and Fetch, Single Disc, Mini-Distance, Throw and Catch, whatever you want to call it, the timed distance game with 1 disc, while an interesting event, is no way to introduce players to the sport of canine disc.
I judged the first ever UpDog Freestyle Showcase this weekend. What a fantastic event! For those of you who don’t know, UpDog is a new disc dog organization…
Reading the disc is a skill that astute dogs and humans pick up rather quickly. The float, the spinSpins and Twists are tricks where the dog spins 360 degrees in a clockwise or counter clockwise fashion. Spin is clockwise and Twist is counter clockwise so it is important to have a..., and the speed can reliably be gauged and predicted after several reps. Of course this changes with wind, disc choice, and throwing ability but, generally speaking, the flight path of a disc is easily predicted.
In dog frisbee, the rule for judges is you can only judge what you see. It is almost a mantra. This is true. But there is something embedded in that rule that often gets forgotten. That which you didn’t see on the field also affects the score. Understanding this as a player can lead to more score and better performance and stronger routine development.
There is a lot more to a vault than the definition. There is a reason you can’t just watch a YouTube video and get an understanding of the vaulting process. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you know how to do it, or how it is done; performance is not understanding. This is very evident when it comes to vaulting.
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