On Flatwork: The Xs and Os of Preferred Movement
At Pawsitive Vybe we look at the dog’s directional movement and direction of play through a clockwise and counter clockwise lens. It’s a bit “brainful”,…
At Pawsitive Vybe we look at the dog’s directional movement and direction of play through a clockwise and counter clockwise lens. It’s a bit “brainful”,…
Description: 4 Throws in a row thrown at least 8 yards from the handler with the dog making the catches while running in Zig Zag…
Performance is not Understanding. Just because a dog does it, doesn’t mean the dog knows how to do it or what they are doing. Speaking…
Here’s a recent training session with Loot that features some Yachi Method things we learned at Camp Hirai. This drill is pretty standard, but the…
Warmup A flip in each direction followed by some well posed or overly dramatic throws, take your pick… A Pose is a telegraphing of the…
Localized Landing is a disc dog leaping technique we teach at Pawsitive Vybe to enhance leaping ability and leaping safety. Many leaping techniques isolate and…
Running flat is a term cribbed from the horse world. It means dropping the head down and running too fast to leap. Many, many disc…
Ballwork is a vault and localized collection drill that we do here at Pawsitive Vybe. A fixed and stable exercise ball is used as a…
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Throughout this series there will be some strange and empowering vocabulary. It’s not easy to think about stuff without words sometimes. Here are some common…
Easy Cheetah! Kiva is just an animal on the retrieve. He runs in faster than he goes out and swarms Apryl. Many dogs and handlers…
Pattern Training Pattern training is an important concept in dog training and dog sports. It fosters understanding of the skills required and also creates muscle…
At Pawsitive Vybe, we work on breaking bad habits like this all the time. Even so, eliminating bad habits can be hard. There is…
Cavalettis have been used to adjust horses strides for a long time. They can be used deliberately and at low speed and can be used…
One of the goals as a professional dog trainer is to have a simple, accessible philosophy that can be communicated easily and applied fairly simply…
This video was shot at 240 frames per second and was shot specifically to get some good technical footage of vault timing. Well we got…
When it comes to vaulting, lower is not always safer. The standard trajectory in vaulting is like a staircase. The dog leaps up from the…
Verbal Cue (Top! | Rebound! | Stall!) The verbal cue Top tells the dog to leap straight off of the obstacle. Rebound tells the dog to…
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