DiscDogger Weekly #4

Ron August 2, 2020

Sweet show for you guys this week… We’ve pulled some stuff from the archives, digging up some Polka Puppy lessons – HoopA Hoop is an Over or Vault that travels through a hoop made from your arms or body. A Hoop expresses great teamwork and connection between dog and handler. Most Hoops are done More and BiteworkBitework is an activity or a game that consists of biting and dropping a toy on cue. Cued Bites and cued Drops (and Gives) can be used to teach and reinforce many behaviors. More (more on the puppy front to come…). Some serious throwing videos and a few training jams. Hope you dig the show.

You might want to watch this on YT to have better access to the descriptions and the playlist…

Lessons all have links in the descriptions to lessons on the Pawsitive Vybe Disc and Dogs Blog. Most lessons are accessible only to Patrons of Pawsitive Vybe, but if you dig the show and want a little more you should become a patron to get full access and some goodies to boot.

This Week’s Lessons On the Blog

Three Simple Steps to Teach a Polka Puppy a Hoop

Epic Flatwork Compass for Leaping & FreeFlowing Flatwork

Flatwork Compass with Obi | A Dozen Throws and a Different Disc Dog

Flatwork Compass | A Hair Trigger & Graphic Display of Over-Pursuit

Epic Speed Reduction | A Simple Solution for Slowing a DiscDog Down

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Patron’s Choice : Shaping a Leaping Catch | Leaping Functions

Sneak Peek for Patron’s only… Public access Dec 27th | Functions of canine leaping and how leaping catches function by Ron Watson

Ron December 21, 2019

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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.

Ron December 19, 2019

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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.

Ron February 3, 2020

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DiscDogger Weekly #14 – Puppies, Premature Ejumpulation, Bite Club, and Turning the World UpSide Down

We’ve got some sweet rounds of TimeWarp from Bite Club, the Grasshopper puppy’s 2nd Disc Dog Jam, some Epic sequence stealing, a bunch collection and tracking work to cure Premature EjumpulationAlso known as Irrational Leaping, Premature Ejumpulation happens when a dog leaps before a disc is catchable. This phenomena is most often seen in long tosses and is almost always caused by running More, and a few throwing lessons.

Ron October 19, 2020

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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 spinSpins 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.

Ron January 27, 2020

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Patron’s Choice: Shaping the Leaping Catch | Freestyle and the Leaping Catch

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 Leaping Catch can, and should be a full time job. Always throw with the intent to deliver the leaping catch unless working something specific that requires a specific approach, speed or distance that is incompatible with a leaping catch. Out throws are glory, not afterthoughts.

Within a game of disc dog freestyle there are many opportunities to reinforce and shape the leaping catch and to turn the speed regulation required for the leaping catch into a habit that is ever present in your freestyle game.

Ron February 1, 2020

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