Path? Distance? Height? Weight transfer? Elevation? To successfully clear a jump, these are the questions a dog must have the answers to at the same speed the dog is traveling toward the jump in his path.

While watching gymnastics, you see the athlete run at speed along a path and then set to jump with both feet and legs leaving the ground equally to perform the vault. Should gymnasts leave the ground with their weight unequally distributed, they would fail to meet the intended goal. The entire jumping process requires the athlete, human or animal, to have a good understanding of the mechanics of the jumping process for flight to be smooth and efficient.

Many dogs are not naturally gifted jumpers. If you don't have a methodology for teaching the dog the mechanical skills for jumping, you "get what you get" each weekend. The dog's jumping may be brilliant sometimes and awful other times. Or the dog may never jump with complete confidence because you have no way of telling the dog which jumping performance you like. A jumping methodology gives you a way to build value for the jump itself and lets the dog know when he is jumping correctly. With a specific method for teaching jumping, all dogs can learn to jump more efficiently and with more confidence as they learn how to make their bodies work for them while jumping.

During the 41-minute recorded lecture, Susan Salo discusses the challenges a dog faces while jumping, how handler motion affects the jumping process, and how a jumping methodology like her gridwork program allows dogs to learn the necessary mechanics. This is a general discussion of the complexity of the jumping effort and why jumping mechanics need to be taught in a systematic way; it does not go into the specifics of teaching the grids.

What is included with your purchase?

• A 41-minute recorded video presentation

• Access on mobile devices and your computer.

• Downloadable content for off-line access

• Keep what you buy—No expiring content; after the course ends, you won't be able to ask questions, but the content is still available to you

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None.

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