Build and Scale Interior Sequencing Skills with the Balanced Position Form
In a recent piece I laid out 3 Disc Quan Do Forms that work in concert to create competent interior play. Let's focus in on one of them, the Balanced …
Category: Disc Dog Set Up & Position
Lessons and articles on Freestyle Disc Dog Set Up & Position by Ron Watson of Pawsitive Vybe.
Master These 3 Disc Dog Forms for Flowing Interior Sequences & Team Movement
How do you build the skills required to be creative and competent in Interior work? What can you do other than what you always do and what others are …
Flatwork Compass with Obi | A Dozen Throws and a Different Disc Dog
12 throws in 4 minutes and we have a dramatically improved trigger, a better wait, and a plan to solve a couple of other nagging problems he has shown…
Epic Flatwork Compass for Leaping & FreeFlowing Flatwork
Communication on the fly is a key element of disc dog freestyle and disc dog game play. It is a good idea to have a clear and concise communication sy…
DiscDogger Weekly #3
Installment 3 of DiscDog Weekly Bite Club! Games are in the mix. A few jams with Apryl, Jack , and Ron... And 4 lessons on dropping, sequence building…
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 befo…
Shaping the Around for Lateral and UpField Movement
Go Around is a standard Set Up Move in disc dog freestyle. It creates timing and position with movement and is the standard set up for toss and fetch.…
Interior Flatwork | Thru to Heli | Moving Flips on the Flank
Ron & Epic demonstrate moving flips on the flank: akaL Heli Flips. Clock and Counter, In and Out... Moving flips out of the Thru Set Up Move.
Interior Flatwork | Locking In the Scoot and Team Connectedness Via the Front Cross
The Front Cross creates an understanding of Team Connectedness. It forces the team to get hooked up and connected and delivers an innate sense of work…
Interior Flatwork | Flanking Set Up Moves | Part 2
Unique Set Up Moves can be created by working off the Flank and using the variety of angles of entry afforded by the Working Flank.
Interior Flatwork | Flanking Set Up Moves | Part 1
Unique Set Up Moves can be created by working off the Flank and using the variety of angles of entry afforded by the Working Flank.
Epic’s Clever Set Up Moves | Volume 1 Part III | Complex Set Up Moves
A Complex Set Up Move combines two or more moves in such a way as they become something new, a single entity that is unique and useful for setting up …
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…
Epic’s Clever Set Up Moves | Volume 1 Part I | Scoots & Fakies
Disc Dog freestyle sequences have a starting position, often it is Front Position - dog standing in front of the handler. Set Up Moves are ways of get…
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Making the Play
So you know some of the concepts and functions of the Leaping Catch. You can throw with precision and accuracy in both space and time.…
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Free Release – Go!
Patrons Only Sneak Peek... Public Access Jan 11th | Get Out and Look Here are both starkly contrasted with GO!. When the handler says,”Go!” the do…
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Contracting the Flank – Look Here!
Patrons Only Sneak Peek... Public Access Jan 10 | Contracting the Flank reduces the lateral outrun of dogs and tightens up the around movement. It is …
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Expanding the Flank – Get Out!
Patrons Only Sneak Peek... Public Access Jan 10 | Where, when, and how the disc is placed while Expanding the Flank depends greatly on what the handle…
Patron’s Choice: Shaping a Leaping Catch | Three Types of Go Around
Patrons Only Sneak Peek Access... Public Jan 9 | How does your dog perform the Around? It it tight as a drum with the dog hugging your knee-pit and br…
A Sample Lesson | Basic Disc Dog Positions: BSP and BFP
Here is a sample lesson from Disc Dog Jamming Class. It lays out Basic Standing Position (BSP) and Basic Flatwork Position (BFP).