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Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Leaping Concepts
Patron’s Choice Sneak Peek | Public Access Dec. 26
Key concepts of the canine leaping skill and behavior chain that shape and reinforce a leaping catch.
Patron’s Choice: Vaulting Principles | Disc Dog Vaulting Concepts
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.
Behind the Scenes | Routine Building Notes
Sneak Peak Access for Patrons Only… Public Access Dec 7 | It looks as if Routine Building is going to be the topic of choice to get this jam rolling. I’ll let the poll play out, and this might change, but I got thinking about “Deep Work”, a topic that crossed my path to today, and the outline wrote itself in minutes.
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Creating a Late Read
Reading the disc is a skill that astute dogs and humans pick up rather quickly. The float, the spin
Spins 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... More, 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.
Do Then Cue – Putting Behaviors Before the Cued Drop for Proofing Purposes
Cue Before Do is standard operating procedure for teaching a cued Drop with discs. Cue Before Do means that you ask for and get the Drop behavior before giving the cookie which is “Do” – throw, next move, bite, etc. Because disc dog freestyle is really nothing more than a series of long behavior chains, many of which are dependent upon having the disc out of the dog’s mouth to complete, this makes complete sense and is logically sound.
From Controlled Chaos to Purposeful Play
Tugging is personal interaction between human and dog that increases drive and creates a spirit of sharing and teamwork. It has a host of other benefits…
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Great! Right off the top I found a major hole in my leaping catch training – I have been rewarding my dog for rushing me!! I definitely need to split out and train collection more- my koolie struggles with it in agility too!
Here are some of the notes I made while reading with “editor” glasses lol:
Could you Explain bfp earlier when 1st use it
Typo under second comic strip- misspelt throw
I think a diagram or such on interception point would be helpful for newbies like me, under the collection section
Under reward placement – repeat what you should do in addition to what you shouldn’t (reps of low for eg)
Any tips for teaching the dog to land well that could be linked to here?
Now I need to go make a list of what to work on based onnthis!
Thanks for the comment and editing heads up, Helen. Will get the typos fixed.
BFP is explained in the first piece of this series, Leaping Concepts. Please take a look at it and let me know how they go together. I tried to lay things out there and then expand upon them here in this piece. I agree with the interception illustration, don’t have one handy and don’t have a computer. I’m writing on a tablet right now.
Glad that point about being rushed resonated with you. It should resonate with many people.
Thanks again, and keep those editor’s glasses handy.
Peace~
That’s great.
Distance on the Reward Placement is forthcoming – either in the “Leaping Forms”, which is next on the outline or in some kind of “Leaping Mechanics” section. Lots of stuff needs to be tied up from these two pieces.
It’s too big a package to allude to here without unpacking. I’ll answer it soon. Happy you have the question and the vision and focus to ask it.
Alright… Also added a link to the first piece (Leaping Concepts) and BFP explanation there. Hope that works.