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Disc Dog Flow
2 weeks ago I would have told you flow was linking tricks together smoothly. I have not changed my definition but I have expanded my understanding of flow. I was watching Dre and Moxie and it hit me that Moxie loops to her right on out throws. Then I started looking for other stuff in the routine they were practicing. They were linking some cool tricks together and it seemed pretty smooth. Except that there was a pretty frequent interrupt or hesitate or adjustment. Nothing wrong with that, but how easy would it be to tweak?
Frisbee to Shape Contacts
When we first started training Lilli in agility it just sorta happened. We did obedience classes first and agility sounded fun so we took that class then kept going. We thought it would just be something fun to play with between frisbee trainings. In our advanced agility course, I brought the disc out once as a reward motivator while in class and Lilli went bonkers and wouldn’t work. I decided then that we needed to keep the two sports separate and never even brought discs to the field when we went to practice agility.
Messy C.R.A.P. with Ribbons
Right to the good part…The C.R.A.P.
C.R.A.P. is inspired by Susan Garrett.
Last week, Susan wrote on her blog about C=Continually, R= Rewarding, A=Ambiguous, P=Performances. Since this was our first trial, there’s not a whole lot of “continually” going on, but that’s not the point.
Agility…our new love
Ok so we’re not completely new to agility, but I have to say I have a renewed love for it.
We always imagined Lilli as a fantastic competition disc dog and thought of agility as a way to enforce obedience and a great alternate form of exercise. Agility has become so much more than just bubble gum (something to chew on) for us over the past several months.
