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Heeling Tips & Tricks #31 – Right ABOUT TURN Teaching & DESIRE! – Perfect Heeling

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Teaching & DESIRE
Right ABOUT TURN

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Teaching the Right ABOUT TURN 

  • Have your dog standing on your left side in heel position.
  • Take a few steps forward in slow motion, and then start to execute the RIGHT ABOUT turn releasing the dog up in heel position as you start to go into your turn.
  • When teaching, release your dog at different points in the about turn to keep the dog guessing and build desire for the dog to keep his head up throughout the turn.
  • If your dog loses focus or drops his head during the turn, reward MORE OFTEN IN the turn.
  • Make sure the dog is looking up and watching you at all times when making the turn.
  • ALWAYS play and interact with the dog before trying the repetition again.
  • Watch for your dog dropping the head to drive around the turn.  Release earlier in the turn and/or give slight reining motions upwards to keep the dog’s head up and/or maintain the visible treat as above to keep dog’s head up.

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Heeling Tips & Tricks #25 Teaching a PERFECT Left About Pivot

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Heeling Intro & Teaching Left About Pivot

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HANDLER CUES: LEFT ABOUT PIVOT FOOT WORK

The LEFT About Pivot is a foundation skill and can be used for your pivots during Scent Articles, Gloves, as well as many signs in Rally.  The Left About Pivot is a 180 degree pivot to the left.  In order for this pivot to be performed accurately, it is important for your dog to understand how to move backwards and have rear end awareness before progressing with teaching this turn.

NOTE: Review the weight shift from the LEFT Pivot section before starting to train the Left About Pivot.

When doing a Left About Pivot:

  • Start standing with your feet together.
  • Shift your weight to your left leg.
  • Step 1, move your right foot to make the “T” step by placing the ball of your right foot against toe of your left foot.
  • Step 2, place the heel of your left foot against the heel of your right foot and point your left foot in the direction you will be going or sending your dog.
  • Step 3, bring your right foot up to your left foot.

Teaching the Left About Pivot

  • Use a high value toy or pocket to place under your left arm.  Drop it on the first step for a number of repetitions.  Once your dog will keep his head up on the first step, start to drop the toy on the second step and so on.  Do randomly reward each step during practices to maintain the heads up behavior.
  • Hold your leash in your left hand to rein your leash as you shift your weight and start your turn.
  • With your dog on your left side, start to rein back on your leash as shift your weight to your LEFT leg.
  • Bring your RIGHT foot to a T in front of your Left foot.
  • Turn your Left foot so that the heel of the left foot is touching the heel of the right foot.
  • Turn your right foot so that it is even with your left foot.
  • Praise and release your dog up to a treat or toy BEFORE the sit or completion of the pivot.
  • Add a sit to the pivot only once the desire is built in each individual movement to build desire and focus.

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