At which age do I start playing disc dog with my puppy? What to expect this time around? If you read the first take, you may have found an opinion piece on safety in disc dog and the relation to spectacle. As there are different 'takes' or opinions, we don't want to limit ourselves to personal opinions. In take 2 we will try to offer you an elaborate reply to some of the most asked questions about disc dogging from a scientific point of view, enriched by my personal experience. We may also make a side step to other sports and activities, but the focus will be disc dogging. Everyone has an idea from his point of view and his experience....
Who is Evanghelos? For our first expert interview, we wanted to start with a BIG BANG! Evanghelos Christofellis is the 2018 World Champion in the art of Distance throwing and holds the most points ever obtained at a UFO (American organization) World Championship. Dog frisbee is more than a fantastic hobby that makes your dog healthy and wins his heart. It's also a worldwide sport with National-, European-, and World Championships. The goal of the discipline we are discussing today is to throw about 40m/yards within a pre-set field for 60 seconds. It's not only the distance that matters but also the accuracy counts. It looks and sounds very easy, but believe me, it isn't. Time to let Evanghelos...
DYKT 20/07/2021 - Did You Know That Labrador Retrievers have a very long 😛 and that they are not afraid to use it? You will get a thousand kisses from them, that's for sure. After exercise however they will use it to cool down their body temperature. They can't take off their fur and are unable too sweat. As demonstrated by Rea after a disc session with K9-DISC. Get yours on www.k9-disc.com. DYKT 22/07/2021 - Did you know that some dogs reach their top speed in the first seven passes. They aren't Retrievers, even not when you wave a K9-DISC for them. They will come back faster than when you don't. You can find these magic discs on www.k9-disc.com. Enjoy...
High focus, correct disc placement, low body posture equals safety of your dog. Higher, higher, more, more!!! Early in my career, there was a European Championship in which I competed with 2 of my dogs: Jumper, a whippet-terrier mix, and Choco, a Labrador with a couple of screws missing. In those days, the sport was still at a very early stage, and we took every option to acquire new insights from the best in the business at that time. We had the opportunity to learn from the sport's founding fathers in different continents, and already back then, some resolute contradictions in mentality were showing. It was on one of those workshops that I had my first shock. One of the...
