Areas of Training:
Maneuvers & Power Steering
In Competition Obedience: A Balance Act, the training book that Judy Byron and I (Adele Yunck) first published in 1998, chapter 7 is called Power Steering. “By using these words, you can steer your dog into either front or heel position without any ballet twirls or other fancy gymnastics.” (pg 83, COABA) “When we begin to put the parts of a heeling pattern together, we give the dog verbal commands for all the moves until he has mastered the body cues. We then fade the verbal commands. If a correction is needed, we precede the correction with the appropriate verbal cue to help the dog understand how he is wrong. ” (pg 84, COABA)
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- Back through a chute
- Back in heel position
- Close
- Brick work
- In
- Off/Away
- Hop
- Heel Starts
- Adding corrections to heel starts
- Right Turn Starts
- Hurry/Play Running
- Dizzy spins
- Pivots
- Call to Heel in motion
- Call to Heel into a sit
- Scoot Heels