Whippet Frisbee-Coursing on a Tropical Beach

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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

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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.

A Sighthound Disc Pioneer in the Making in Japan

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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!