Channel Heeling: A Fun & Easy Way to Teach Heeling for Dog Sports

Channel Heeling: A Fun & Easy Way to Teach Heeling for Dog Sports

Instructor: Devorah Sperber
Course Type: Self-Study Course
$75.00

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Channel heeling is an innovative way to teach enthusiastic, connected heeling. Whether your goal is circle work for agility, flashy freestyle routines, precision figure-eights, or joyful, connected heeling for everyday life, the channel heeling method will teach your dog the physical skills needed to maintain heel position through a variety of tight turns and gentle arcs on the shorter and longer path.

What makes this method different is the use of props to create channels. The channels make the right choice easy and the wrong choices hard. By minimizing errors (forging, lagging, drifting wide, and swinging out), the method allows your dog to practice speed changes and rear leg side stepping while you practice training mechanics and provide your dog with clear feedback.

When you teach a dog to heel using the channel heeling method, you are reinforcing focus and walking on a loose leash so those become happy by-products of the training. 

Channel heeling is to teaching moving heel position what platforms are to teaching stationary positions. And as Ken Ramirez likes to say: Advanced training is the basics done really well. 

The Devorah Sperber self-study course is appropriate for new trainers, experienced trainers, or anyone who wants to fine tune their dog's heeling or increase the level of joy and enthusiasm their dog brings to heeling. The channel heeling method works equally well with highly trained sports dogs as it does with untrained dogs or behavioral challenged shelter dogs. 

You can start the Devorah Sperber self-study course whenever you like. It includes 6 lessons that you can complete at your own pace. There are no fixed deadlines or due dates.

What is included with your purchase?

  • Access to all course materials on both mobile devices and your computer
  • Keep what you buy—No expiring content

Note: Videos in this course cannot be downloaded.

Prerequisites

None

Equipment needed

  • 2 eight-panel exercise pens or reasonable facsimile
  • 2 traffic cones or similar object
  • Buckle collar and 6-foot long leash
  • Treats

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