Ketschker's Turn

SheltieChe said:
I think once you move you will see difference in teaching. Like for example you teach in your fundamentals video jumping several obstacles to the target while you stationary. I am not allowed to do it because my primary cue is body movement, if I stop, my dog should stop. If I have same 3 jumps and tunnel instead of target plate how do I tell my dog not to take a tunnel if he does not read my deceleration cues? So I really do not want to teach my dog to ignore my body moves.
I think your move to OH will be very interesting:wink2:
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I think you're right :o I should have been moving at least a bit. One of my bad habits is standing around. Even when teaching a go or a send I should at least be moving forward (even if it's slowly to allow the dog to get ahead). Thanks for pointing that out.
 
corbinam said:
I think you're right :o I should have been moving at least a bit. One of my bad habits is standing around. Even when teaching a go or a send I should at least be moving forward (even if it's slowly to allow the dog to get ahead). Thanks for pointing that out.
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ha, how do you think I know that...:cry:
 
Well, I couldn't help myself, I wanted to try it out today. So we did!

Here's the video of our first attempts. Lexi didn't seem to have any trouble, but Bentley was another story. Of course, Lexi takes long strides while Bentley is the opposite. He is also much more handler focused and I think our body movement threw him off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRq786lEVRo

It was fun to try! (Don't mind my horrible frisbee throwing skills, haha!)
 
From what I've learned about it (and I could be oh so wrong), and this is just what my trainer said since if you recall, we learned Derrett so blind crossing is a HUGE no no. I asked her, why are we allowing a blind cross. And she said, with a ketschker you are basically crossing in front of the dog, the dog is not blind crossing you. At first I didn't get it until I realized what she meant. The dog should never blind cross me, unless I'm crossing in front of him. Meaning, I'm in control. Hope that made sense.

The one thing I like about it is that it does allow your dog to keep his speed up, versus me just turning 180. It also alleviates you from doing a ton of FCs in a row on certain courses. My trainer set up a course and in it we would have had to do 3 FCs and with a tunnel, so there was no way, because the dogs were just to fast. This is when a ketschker was great!

For myself, it was great to learn and handy to use in certain instances (esp AKC), but I probably won't use it a lot. Let's be real, Koji's speed won't get any faster. I think this is a great move for dogs like Lexi (your video proves that).
 
We also use this. There's always place for it with fast dogs. I was surprised how many ppl used it in our country during qualification for WC and EO. ANyways, my dog is also really fast and it saves time, plus sometimes i don't simply have time for other turns.

here you can see some of competitors using it during the course
http://youtu.be/zBFFerleqks

http://youtu.be/BDtk3r06Jn4

I had no idea that it's so popular, but after watching all those vids, I learnt there's always place for this :winkgrin:
 
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