Course Details
Do you dream of doing fancy obedience work someday?
No need to wait until you’ve slogged through novice! We can start splitting down the parts for even the most advanced exercises right from the start.
The go out is especially an exciting exercise to train as the dog gets to run and jump and there isn’t as much precision details to obsess over for the human. A huge win of starting this early on is that sending away from the handler is seen as fun, not stressful!
Both the go out and the glove exercise share the skill of “marking” or looking forward in the direction they are going to be sent. This foundation is what helps the dog find a straight line and avoid the other tempting choices like the other gloves on the directed retrieve or taking a jump on the go out send!
We can use different signals to help the dog know, before being sent, whether they are sending to a retrieve or to their go out spot. Too many dogs end up doing a go out to the corner where their glove was in the previous exercise!
There are no official prerequisites for this class! Dogs new to obedience are welcome to join as well as experienced competitors struggling to get their routines in a trial.
I have 6 core skills we will work on in this class for a choose-your-own-adventure training plan! The lecture "series" will be independent of the other series until the last stages so students can work on anywhere from 1 to 6(not recommended!) topics at a time.
1. Marking: teaching the dog to look ahead and find a "target" to send to. This will be a core foundation of both gloves and go outs as the dogs learn to find the straight line and ignore distractions.
2. Go out Touch: Teaching the dog a phsycal touch to the ring gates for the go out send. And the concepts of sending "between" /ignoring distractions on the send.
3. Go out Sit: Teaching a sit at a distance and applying that to interrupting a send behavior. (no "go out touch" needed to start this!)
4. Directed Jumping: Teaching the dog to send laterally to cones, then a jump. Find the correct jump even from a big angle.
5. Building Distance: The 1st lectures go over why dogs may struggle to send out and then we start looking at problem solving. Lecture 1 and 2 can be looked at with any stage of dog. Otherwise you will likely visit this series at some point in your "go out touch" journey.
6. Gloves: Working on a glove retrieve and hold. The dog should already have a formal dumbbell retrieve.
Teaching Approach:
Instructor: Laura WaudbyLaura Waudby (she/they) trains and competes in obedience, rally, and agility. She was halfway to her OTCH with her UDX corgi, Lance, before his uexpected early retirement. She also has championship titles in USDAA and UKI. By day...(Click here for full bio and to view Laura's upcoming courses)
