How to teach Competition Heeling! Easy Guide!

This video is a complete guide on how to do a competition heel.
Key Moments
00:00 Introduction
00:14 Equipment you need
01:02 Explosive Marker
02:54 Drive Building
03:38 Box Work
07:45 Heel off the box
10:52 Fading the Lure
15:15 Left Turns
16:06 Movement
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[@Pradeep2fuler22]

Please make more videos like this. This is the best focus heel tutorial I found in KZbin

[@ang3liqu3]

What a great guide. Thanks so much for making the video and sharing!

[@annylaurie422]

Your channel should have a million followers

[@fionaholdsworth3018]

Thank you so much! This has been the best explanation of heelwork I have seen and I can't wait to give it a try.

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

Thank you so much for this feedback! This encourages me to make more tutorials!

[@fionaholdsworth3018]

@@jamiethedogtrainer1735 yes please!!

[@FIRETEAMK9]

This is a great video Jamie! Thanks for taking the time to put this together, I love the process you have and will work through it with Piper!

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

Thanks so much for this feedback! Love to hear how you progress with Piper!

[@ahmedsq9424]

U are good teacher 🔥

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

Thank you!

[@EpsilonAD]

Thanks for a thorough and helpful clip. Keeping handler enuthiastic and chipper voice makes a big difference with Epsilon. Using the box for better, bum in, heel position and following focus looks so smooth with you two. It is a slow process. Short and consistent. We are still working on making this cue more effective. I made many mistakes which we are still working on improving in cueing and maintaining long, distracting environment, close and focused heels that ADs often have to manage. Rushing towards the goal of getting out meant I put a young dog into the position of handler using lead as a steering wheel instead of a safety belt. My observant puppy learnt to lean into the lead. I found your training handler cueing techniques for heel practical and useful. Thanks. 😎🐾

[@thegermanshepherdmylo]

Thank you very much! It's working on my gsd😊.

[@JohnGilbert49]

Do you have a video on teaching the orbit?

[@jhonalexy5759]

👏👏👏👏👍

[@TheTerrinelson]

This was amazing, My dog is smaller. What would you use for treats?

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

I use spd roll by prime 100 but any soft high value healthy treats are fine!

[@antoniosantonios913]

Mate, pls tell me how to have the rear end follows, when using a dog bowl on the floor, my guy is not tilting around

[@tinas-zg6km]

My dog is not very food motivated or toy motivatied but she is high energy dog. Got any tips?

[@xEXPLOSiiiVx]

Would recommend practicing everyday? Once or multiple times a day? And how long should be a session? thank you 😊

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

I wouldn’t practise this every day. Have a day break in between. Heeling requires a lot of energy and mental power from the dog so give them a break to process in between. You can still train each day but do something different in between!

[@k-townk9]

What if my dog has way more drive with the toy?

[@amyalexahub]

Should you teach a new marker if you already use YES for everything else you’ve been tracking where an “explosive reaction” might not be appropriate?

[@arletteprats7917]

Hello, is there an ideal age to start this training?

[@mobstercrow7515]

I am getting my next service dog prospect soon. I want to do obedience and rally with her, as a fun bonding experience for both of us. I don't want her to do the competition style heel while we are working, only when we are competing or training. How do I get her to know the difference? Should I use separate words for them?

[@Katek8]

Do you have any tips for correcting a skippy step in heel? Like bouncing on one leg and not really doing the prance consistently… for reference my dog is a short Australian shepherd- comes to just above my knee so that makes this a bit more tricky :)

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

Hey! Yeah so it’s all about capturing rhythm! So keep luring and wait until there’s a moment where the dog falls into a good rhythm with no skipping and mark/reward straight away. You can also play around different head positions. Sometimes a too high head position can cause skipping so lowering ever so slightly can improve rhythm! Hope that helps!

[@erlineandrews]

Does the dog have to heel on your left?

[@fyhdhgg]

what treats did you use?

[@BritzJones]

How would you get a small dog who can't catch food to target on your armpit rather than face?

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

I’d use a target stick instead! So get the smaller dog to target a ball on the end of a stick! Allows you to get really precise head position.

[@RustyPowell]

So it's normal business practice to remove comments you don't agree with. Is that right?

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

I’ve never removed any comments from here?!

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

If you follow all my socials you’ll know I’m generally really open to robust discussion providing it’s not rude or off topic! I don’t remove comments.

[@jamiethedogtrainer1735]

If you’re referring to the other comment you asked about recall and distractions that is on another video, not this one.

[@RustyPowell]

I understand you didn't from this post, however the other you did. I don't believe anything was rude. I t may have been removed by error. The following was my response.I'd have to politely disagree with you on that. Unless the distraction is just out of shot. The dog is on a lead and the dog in the distance is about 40 metres away. That's not recall with distractions.

[@RustyPowell]

All good. Can you check if the comment is on your end. It seems to have gone when I look at it. Cheers. Rusty. @@jamiethedogtrainer1735