Throwing to Create Disc Dog Shapes
How and where we throw the disc has great bearing on how and where our dog moves. This sounds elementary, but the application of this knowledge is not…
Tag: Setting the Flank
Setting the Flank is a skill used to create lateral, cooperative movement. To Set the Flank a disc is thrown laterally, usually to 10 or 2 o clock in order to create useful angles for cooperative play.
Throwing out in front or directly out to the side creates linear chase and linear approaches. These lines are not very flexible and often hard to work with when it comes to flow, sequencing, and creative transitional play.
Slowing Down a Disc Dog with Team Movement & Flatwork
Obi has come a long way. He is paying attention to his handler, he's following his handler's movements and respecting and responding to positional pre…
Making the Play with Eppie | Disc Dog Team Movement and Leaping
We have been working this week on collection and thoughtful pursuit using upside down throws. Putting that into a pattern or flowing flatwork is a bit…
Disc Placement, Shapes, and Team Movement | Flamingo & Flamingitis
Creative releases are often quite difficult to drop into your Team Movement flow, especially counter clock releases. The Flamingo and Flamingitis thro…
Team Movement Transformation in 7 Sessions with Obi
Flatwork with Obi, aka: "Not a Border Collie", has been almost a weekly feature on DiscDogger Weekly. Obi is Apryl's dog, so the videos are pretty muc…
A Dog’s Eye Perspective | The Flatwork Compass & Crossing Pass with Loot
The movements of the Flatwork Compass are both how humans move to throw and how humans move dogs. The stepping forward for the Flank pushes the dog ou…
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.…
On Shapes in Disc Dog Freestyle
Shapes are more than just the trail left by the dog on the field, and the patterns created by the dog after the catch. Shapes differ from Flatwork, an…
Patron’s Choice: Shaping the Leaping Catch | Freestyle and the Leaping Catch
Shaping a Leaping Catch can, and should be a full time job. Always throw with the intent to deliver the leaping catch unless working something specifi…
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 | 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…
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
Patron’s Choice: Routine Building Vol 1 | Of Forms and Purpose
Sneak Peek - Patrons Only… Public Release Dec 16th | Think Forms Not Drills - A drill is something an athlete does to get better. Drills help you …
Throwing On Flank vs Setting the Flank
An illustrated look on the effects of reward placement on the shapes and lines that a disc dog runs during a round of disc dog freestyle.
Disc Dog Flatwork | Flank Mechanics
An illustrated look at the mechanics of the Flank in disc dog freestyle and flatwork.
13 Laws of Flatwork for Better Team Movement
1st Law of Disc Dog Flatwork There is Always a Flank If the handler has a toy, there is always a flank. It might be…
A Pendulum for Better Flatwork and for Big Leaping
The Pendulum pattern is created using alternating clockwise and counter clockwise "Arounds". This balanced approach slows the dog down and helps dog a…