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
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