Rec’d on YT | Slacker Sunday: Antonis & Meg Guest Star, Play+ Primal Games & More | DiscDog Dojo #138 🐶🥏🥋💤
Take
A Take is a cued Bite that replicates the placement and timing of a throw. Usually used with overs, vaults, and flips, the Take is a powerful teaching tool for creating habitual leaping... More a breather this Slacker Sunday and join us at the DiscDog Dojo for a laid-back session of wisdom, fun, and a little bit of nothing. Tune in tonight at 9PM CT as we welcome special guests Antonis and his Athenian Disc Dog Meg all the way from Greece!
Tonight’s lineup features host Ron Watson and guest stars Antonis & Meg. Taking a well-deserved break tonight is co-host Epic. As always, weather girl 🧁CupCake🧁, sports guy daToss and Fetch, aka: Distance & Accuracy, Toss & Catch, is a disc dog discipline that uses a single disc. It is a timed event and you get scored based upon the distance... More 👑King👑, and our intern 🐾Ken Du🐾 are ready to slack off with you.
What’s on our agenda of “doing less to achieve more”:
🔄 Play+ Primal Games & Elements of PlayPlay is willing, self-induced engagement in, and the experience of, novel, consequent opportunity. More: Dive deep into the subtleties and essence of Play+ with Primal Games and Primal Elements of Play.
🦴 Backing Up with Rear Foot Targeting: Learn how to back up your dog using rear foot targeting, a simple yet effective technique.
💬 Your Questions: Got any queries? We’ve got all the time in the world tonight to address them.
Whether you’re new to dog sports or an old paw at it, join us for a mix of thoughtful discussion and playful relaxation.
00:00 – 🥋 Opening: “Hadouken!!! Power Chi Moves” 🌀
2:50 – 🐕 CupCake Jam & Epic Field Tagging – Wait
Waiting on cue and situationally is extremely important for disc dog freestyle training. The competition field might not see too much waiting going on as everything is supposed to be happening in flow,... More for it…🪁
7:57 – 🐢 Welcome to the Show, Slacker… 🐌
9:23 – 🏆 Weekend Recap: Performance at Purina Farms Toss and Fetch World Finals 🏅
10:06 – 🐾 Ken and Cupcake’s Accomplishments at Purina Farms 🌳
12:17 – 🧠 Introduction to Primal Elements of Play: Attention
Unsolicited eye contact or Attention is a great way to hook up with a dog. If you have something the dog wants he should give eye contact in order to get access to... More, Targeting, Dismissal
If a dog is dismissed, it means the handler is "off limits". Dismissal does not mean the dog has to leave, just that the handler is not available. Dismissal is a valuable drive... More, Initiative
In the context of Play+, initiative encapsulates the process of leading the dynamic interaction during play. Whether it's the Dog or the Handler, the one with the initiative actively guides the direction of... More 🌐
14:08 – 🔄 Exploring Initiative Transfer in Play: Understanding Handler-Dog Dynamics 🔄
17:35 – 🐕 Primal Games provide embodied experience of Primal Elements 🛠️
20:32 – 🎮 Play+ Philosophy: Connecting Primal Elements with Training Techniques 🧩
22:40 – 😉 A Training Conundrum and the Spirit of the Champion 🥋
25:43 – 🔄 Training Ken on “While” Behavior: Building Patience and Duration 🕰️
26:58 – ⚙️ Leveraging the Other Dogs 🐶🐩🐕
32:09 – 🚦 Demonstrating “Off” Cue Training with Ken: Establishing Clear Commands 🛑
37:10 – 🔎 ShapingShaping is a learning technique where successive approximation and a Positive Marker are used to teach behaviors and communicate concepts. Successive approximation essentially means continually closer to the target behavior. So Shaping is... More a Known Behavior: The Law of 3 Times 🧩
39:10 – 🏹 Aims and Goals are 🚫NOT🚫 the same thing 🏁
41:14 – 🐕 Too Much Agency: Ken the Spirit of the Slacker 🎯
43:31 – 🛠️ More Chilling with Meg: Nothing Next"Next" encapsulates the dog's anticipation of a forthcoming reward, sparking motivation and excitement. This expectancy creates a driving force that propels the dog through training, forming a continuous loop of engagement. When "Next"... More? Do Nothing 🔄
… a whole lot of nothing…
46:00 – 👊 Attunement: You and me against da World 👊
53:28 – 🎭 Final Training with Ken: Emphasizing Patience and Consistency 🎬
55:00 – 🎯 Precision Cookies mean While… Face Goes Where CookieA Cookie is traditionally thought of as a food treat given as positive reinforcement. In that definition, a cookie is a discrete piece of food reinforcement. In many dog training discussions, the idea... More Happens 🍪
57:46 – ⁉️ Matter of Fact, Flat, and Nondescript Corrections 🚫
1:00:59 – 🔗 Cranking up the BackChain: Shifting to the Off Cue 🧭
1:03:10 – 🌐 Revisiting Primal Elements and Primal Games 🌍
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1:08:05 – ⁉️ Where is the Trigger with Ken Du 🥋
1:09:00 – 🧠 Delving into Primal Elements: Understanding Their Training Impact 🧐
1:14:26 – 💡 Dog Knowledge and embodied Initiative Transfer 🔁
1:15:20 – ⁉️ Where is the Trigger and This, Wait… Next! 🧭
1:17:01 – 📚 Play+ Philosophy: Impact of Primal Games on Behavior and Learning 📘
1:18:44 – 🚦This, Wait… Next! with Ken Du 🚥
1:21:45 – Game Begins… Nope
1:24:05 – 🗣️ This, Wait… Next! Opportunity and Initiative Transfer 📚
1:25:43 – 🎬 Wrapping Up the Episode: Recap of Training Highlights 🎥
1:27:40 – 🎥 Primal Games embody Skills
Skills are purposeful actions that require information from the environment. In Play+, performance revolves around Actions & Skills rather than behaviors. More and Primal Elements 🎬
1:29:59 – 🎭 Continuing with Live Training: Rear Foot Targeting with Meg 🎬
1:32:09 – 🐕 Backing Up with Meg: Go Meg 🏆
1:34:10 – 🛑 Creating a Halt Cue: Terminal MarkShort for “Positive Marker”, a Mark is a word or signal given at the exact moment a desired behavior is performed. It’s like a clicker. Mark can also mean the act of marking... More 🎬
1:36:30 – 🎯 Deliver Halt Cue with Marker Precision 🛑
1:37:35 – 🧁 Backing Up with the CupCake 📘
1:39:50 – 🐶 Turn Primal Elements and Actualized Skills
Actualized Skills in Play+ refer to the manifest abilities of the dog, developed through training and practice, and utilized effectively within the play interaction. They represent the culmination of a learning process where... More into ready-to-paw Tools 🐕🦺
1:42:37 – ⏮️ Backing Up with Ken Du the Primal Games Specialist 🌀
1:44:37 – 🤩 Show Recap | Patron Driven Thank YOU!!! 🙏
1:46:24 – 🐕 We successfully Slacked Off… Easy night’s work, Ken 🐾
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