Teaching and Building DESIRE in FAST PACE
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TEACHING AND BUILDING DESIRE IN THE FAST PACE .
- There are 3 main skills to teach for a great FAST pace. Accelerate Step into fast. Maintaining focus through the duration of the FAST, and the Break Step back into normal. Each of these areas of the FAST pace need to be taught and rewarded randomly.
- Start to heel your dog forward at a Normal pace, do NOT start from a sit!
- After a few normal steps, do a “acceleration step” into a FAST pace AS you bring a toy/treat from your right hand across your body and tell your dog to “get it”.
- It is important to reward your dog’s effort to accelerate his pace as well as keep focus up on you.
- Adjust the delivery of the reward according to your dog’s drive.
- Release and play before repeating.
- Only once you have built desire for the acceleration step into the fast should you start to add duration steps.
- Once adding duration, randomly reward the acceleration step. This will maintain your dog’s desire.
- REMEMBER to always train a longer fast than you will ever need for a show.
- Watch and make sure your dog is driving off his rear. Teach this important step will ensure better right and about turns as well as the outside post of your Figure 8.
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This is exactly what I needed. We had lags on our fast pace in the ring the last two weekends. I need to build more desire so it transfers to the ring! Make sure you share and go onto youtube and scubcride if you haven’t!
Thank you, Debby!
Consentrate on DESIRE to speed up … once you have it, maintain it!