I do frisbee for fun with Oz and Gull. I taught them both the same way. I started out teaching them catching skills with a soft stuffie, then a ball. When they could reliably catch it going away from them, I switched to a soft rubber frisbee. As they got more successful, I would slowly increase the distance I threw it away from them. From there it was just short hop, skip and jump away from figuring out to take off running as soon as my arm went back and then to track the frisbee down coming over their shoulder to catch it.
Gull did take a lil' longer though, because he didn't have good eye/mouth coordination as a puppy. He had to learn that, whereas with Oz it came naturally. The good news being though, that it's a skill that can be taught. As he matures, his skills are starting to surpass Oz's. He's got the potential to do some spectacular jumps I think. Since he's only one and half years old though, I try to keep my throws where he doesn't have to jump much to catch'em. Every once in awhile though I make a bad throw and he'll surprise me what he can do to catch it. I doubt we'll ever compete though. We just do this for fun and a whole lot of fun it is. Both of them seem to enjoy frisbee more then agility.
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