Rewarding with Plastic | The Cookie is Next
Many handlers struggle with disc dog skills simply because they think that their only cookie in this game is "the Disc". The disc is a cookie, but it …
Category: Dog Training and Disc Dog Theory
Dog training, disc dog, and dog sport training theory by Ron Watson of Pawsitive Vybe.
Disc Dog Team Movement Foundation | Puppy’s 2nd Jam
This is Grasshopper's 2nd jam ever. We did an introduction to disc a few weeks ago that went pretty well. Since then we have done three team movement …
Upside Down Throws for Disc Dog Collection and Tracking
Upside down throws create disc dog collection and tracking opportunities and limit the opportunity for over-pursuit. Because of their strange flight p…
Music, Dance, and Disc Dog Freestyle | The Rhythm is In the Gaps
Your disc dog tricks and moves are your beats or dance steps. All the stuff required to set them up and make them look and sound good in flow are the …
Golden Ratio of Reinforcement | Epic Give Sessions 2 and 3
We have already talked about how Eppie has a crappy Give and used a cued Drop to address it. Well, it's still kinda crappy, just a little less so. To …
Flatwork Compass | A Hair Trigger & Graphic Display of Over-Pursuit
The affects of a clean trigger in the Flatwork Compass show themselves in most all aspects of the game. Most dogs do not have a clean trigger. Cleanin…
The Purpose and Value of Recognizing Shapes in Disc Dog Freestyle
Shapes are created by the position and movement of dog, handler, and disc. And shapes can be created by the dog, the handler, and the placement of the…
Interior Flatwork | How to Stop, Line Up & Lock In Your Disc Dog in 14 Seconds
Flatwork is the simple application of positional pressure and reward Placement. Expressing and executing that simple application to get the type of mo…
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 spin, and the speed can reliably be gauged and predicte…
Tao of DiscDog | Yin, Yang and Flatwork – Explore Your Dark Side
Yin and Yang, Light and Dark. Black and White. Interdependent counterparts of the whole that define each other through their exclusive differences; yo…
Handler Speed: Knowledge > Athleticism
If the handler knows where the dog is going to be and when the dog will be there, it is easy to move between the…
On Engagement in Dog Sports and Dog Training
Engagement™ is a huge buzzword these days in the dog training world. I think it’s taken over Rear End Awareness™” and Core Strength™. We’ve been…
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…
Localized Landing Lessons
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…
Jam in a Flash – The Lesson of the Jam
Getting a fresh new sequence is totally the goal of a Flash Jam, but it’s not the only goal, it might not even be the important…
Jam in a Flash for Cookies with RustGrizzy
RustGrizzy and DirtyErn work on a new sequence using cookies in a distraction filled environment using the Art of Linking Tricks and a FlashJam created here…
Fixing a Dog Who Can’t Catch – Part 2
this is the second installment in this series. Check out part 1. continued from part 1 – yes, this is the same video but you…
Fixing a Dog Who Can’t Catch – Part 1 of 2
sometimes dogs learn the funniest things. like Viper here… he thinks the object of the game is to pick up the disc off the ground.…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 2
The last two installments of this series outlined the behavioral strings and knots metaphor and examined 5 ‘strings’ of behavior and their relationship to behavioral…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 1
Yesterday’s piece was about how solving behavioral problems is kind of like untangling knots. Today I’m going to talk about the strings that make up…