21/05/2013
California, Mach-Speed Whippets, Sighthound Disc Sport, Whippets on the Net 1 Comment
Samantha Battles and Dylan Phillipy have Mach-Speed Super Mario Bros. (“Mario”), one of Lajka and Rocket’s super sons born in Spring 2012.
Samantha is also a senior at San Francisco State. For one of her projects, she made this video about our Sighthound Disc Coursing athletics.
Here is the result:
Record on Hold Final from Samantha Battles on Vimeo.
20/09/2012
Dog Sports & Racing, Mach-Speed Whippets, Sighthound Disc Sport, Whippets Aerobie, Guinness Records 3 Comments
The World Record Attempt for Autumn 2012
17/04/2012
Dog Sports & Racing, Dogs (General), Mach-Speed Whippets, Mui Ne, Sighthound Disc Sport, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Whippets, Whippets on the Net ham tien, Mui Ne, surfpoint 7 Comments
Astro, Rocket, and Lajka on the beach at Surfpoint Kitesurfing School. Feb 2012. Made by Adam Borys of HamTien Productions
14/03/2012
Mach-Speed Whippets, Sighthound Disc Sport, Whippets on the Net mach-speed, machspeed, SDS, Sighhounds Leave a comment
This wordpress site is our BLOG.
But our MAIN site is:
I am very happy about the popularity (and the slow but steady growth) of this blog, but I am surprised that so many of the visitors to this blog never take a look at our main site. I can tell by comparing the statistics and flag counters of the two sites.
Besides the main site, there are also:
10/02/2012
Dog Sports & Racing, Mach-Speed Whippets, Mui Ne, Sighthound Disc Sport, Sighthounds, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Whippets dog frisbee, dog-disc coursing, ham tien, Mui Ne, surf-point, surfpoint, whippet frisbee 8 Comments
Here are some shots of Rocket doing some Dog-Disc Coursing on the beach in Mui Ne, Vietnam. We went out a few days ago in the morning. My friend Adam, from SurfPoint Kite-Surfing school and Ham Tien Productions, took these shots. As you can see, he did a real good job considering this was the first time he photographed Whippets in action — no small task!
We weren’t able to perfom for long becuase it was hot and sunny. Rocket got tired. If I were to go home for another dog, the beach would have been full of kites by the time I got back. There is a chance we will try to take a few more shots before i need to head off to SaiGon to prepare for our move to California.
If when you are in Mui Ne, you need a photographer or a cameraman for a project, or want to learn how to Kite-Surf, you might try to get a hold of Adam. Contact to him is on the Surfpoint internet site. You can find the link on one of my other blogs: www.muinet.wordpress.com
Click on the thumbs to enlarge the photos.
I am going to miss Mui Ne, but I am sure that a lot of exciting times are up ahead of us in California : my new work, the music scene, the whippet scene, the Frisbee and Aerobie scene, etc. I will miss the weather, but it doesn’t get very cold in California and the climate will be just about ideal for the dogs.
18/01/2012
Dog Sports & Racing, Mui Ne, Sighthound Disc Sport, Sighthounds, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Whippets beach dog-disc, ham tien, Mui Ne, whippets in vietnam, whippets on the beach 3 Comments
Here are some shots that Christophe Guegan took of the Whippets and I playing frisbee on the beach in Mui Ne, Vietnam. He was there on vacation and happened to be there with his camera.
19/07/2011
Sighthound Disc Sport, Sighthounds, Southeast Asia, Whippets, Whippets on the Net mini-distance, Tyrolryle, whippet frisbee, whippet in japan, whippets in japan 2 Comments
There is a dog-disc enthusiast in Japan who goes by the YouTube nick of “Tyrolryle”. I don’t know too much more about him — and maybe there are more like him in Japan. Anyway, he and his Whippet are doing great things in mini-distance. I think it would be quite a show to compete with him in SDS mini-distance. SDS mini-distance has rules and scoring more catered to the speed and abilities of the sighthounds. I hope he will write back to me soon, and then we will know more about him.
Take a look at the videos on Tyrolryle’s YouTube. Below it, is one of his newer mini-distance vids. He is racking up scores that, it seems to me, would win in many or most european mini-distance competitions against the Borders and Aussies and so on.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tyrolryle
Also, I would love to know the pedigree name of his Whippet!
09/05/2011
Sighthound Disc Sport, Whippets 1 Comment
Here is an older vid of Rocket playing frisbee with me on the beach in Sopot, Poland. It was incredibly windy, wich made for some fun and funny slow motion filming. Check it out!
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27/03/2011
Dog Sports & Racing, Saigon, Sighthound Disc Sport, Sighthounds, Southeast Asia, Vietnam 9 Comments
I thought i might give a little more info about the Horse and Greyhound racetracks in northwest Saigon (district 11).
Here are some more pictures. The greyhound track is within the oval of the horse-track. This means, that if a dog-race were to take place, the onlookers would most likely cross the horse-track to get up closer to the dog-track. Horse-races are watched from the grandstands. Dog-races, for the most part i assume, would not be watched from the grandstands. The view would be rather distant.
I hope this beautiful track will finally be put into use soon. And if it isn’t, i hope i will get to experience it in some way anyway… Like maybe with the Whippets? 🙂
In Polish:
Oto kilka fotek. Tor wysigowy dla chartow jest w srodku kolka toru konnego. To znaczy ze jak jest wyscig chartow, widzowie prawdopodobnie byliby przy torach na boisku a nie w widownii. Jak sa wyscigi konne, widzowie sa przewaznie w widownii “grandstands”.
Mam nadzieje ze ten przepiekny tor dla chartow bedzie uzywane w krotce. a jak nie, to mam nadzieje chociaz ze bede mial okazje doswiadczyc go w jakis sposob. n.p. z whippetami. 🙂
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