The Path to Better Catching with Loot | Punishing with a Pause and an Offered Down Part I
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Better Catching with Loot | Punishing with a Pause and the Offered Down Part II
Part I covered a bunch of techniques and concepts that we use to reinforce the catch and punish the miss. It also laid out the Path that Loot a I took to get to this point where the Offered Down is a good solution for reinforcing the catch and punishing the miss.
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