Directional Feeding Demo
Description: Four throws in efficient succession working off the drop and feeding discs to a leaping dog on the dog’s chosen line. Method: Set the…
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Directional Feeding
Directional Feeding is the underlying essence of disc dog freestyle. As a concept, it consists of reading the dog’s line and delivering a well placed…
Oppositional Feeding
Those who have worked with us know what Directional Feeding, Directional Leading and the Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon (PVR) are. You are also probably familiar with how…
Flanking & Feeding
The first steps of Practical Flatwork are Setting the Flank and Directional Feeding. Setting the Flank The Flank is a position where the dog is…
Flatwork – Are You Feeding or Leading
In an earlier article, Flatwork is Flow, I wrote about the concept of Flatwork in the game of disc: In agility, the stuff that goes…
Oppositional Feeding
Oppositional Feeding is the opposite of Directional Feeding. The handler throws a disc in the opposite direction that the dog is moving. Oppositional Feeding is…
Oppositional Feeding Applications
Easy Cheetah! Kiva is just an animal on the retrieve. He runs in faster than he goes out and swarms Apryl. Many dogs and handlers…
Oppositional Feeding Applications
Pressure generated by dogs with lots of drive can be reduced by using Oppositional Feeding. It is a great tool for slowing dogs down and reducing thei…
Disc Dog Flatwork: Oppositional Feeding
Oppositional Feeding is a technique that I have been using for some time now to slow my dogs down a bit and get them to settle in and work away from m…
Disc Dog Flanking and Feeding
The first steps of Practical Flatwork are Setting the Flank and Directional Feeding. Both of these skills have huge impact in how handlers...
Disc Dog Flatwork – Are You Feeding or Leading?
Are you feeding your dog's patterns or leading them? Creating and maintaining cool patterns in freestyle disc is a balancing act...
Training Triad | End the Victory Lap – Shaping the Release
After a dog catches the disc they break off the attack and move to regroup or to a ready position. The movement after the catch can be called the Rele…
Clock and Counter Clockwise Movement Demo
Description: Demonstrate Clockwise and Counter Clockwise team movement. * This can be demonstrated within your Directional Feeding Form. It does not need to be a…
Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon (PVR)
The Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon is a flatwork pattern we developed to help handlers learn to move their dogs around the field and also to help…
Passing Compass
Description Two free release passes, back and forth, followed by the Flanking throws from the Flatwork Compass. Two more free passes then the two passing…
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…
Disc Quan Do Yellow Belt Test – Installing the Cued Drop and Cleaning Up Communication
Laurent and Gypsie have been working Disc Quan Do in the Digital Dojo. For the last week, we’ve been hanging out in the Dojo in the mornings chattin…
Learning to Run Patterns Drill #1
One thing that separates the Pros from the soon to be Pros is Throwing With Intent, intending to throw to a spot at a particular…
Drop with Prima & Hops
Here’s Hops and Prima working on their drop skills. Both of them do not drop particularly well. Hops was a single disc, retrieve only dog…
Setting a Working Flank with Vaults and Overs
Vault to Flank Setting the Flank after a Vault or Over is a really simple task. All you have to do is turn in the…