If you’d like your dog to become better and faster learner who is motivated and engaged during training sessions, then improving handler mechanics is one of the key things to work on. You don’t have to spend more time training your dog in order to get...
Nov 27, 2020
10 min
There are many, many different factors affecting the arousal level. There are factors beyond our control. But the most important one is something we can actually change…That is being clear in our training where and how the reinforcement will be...
Nov 20, 2020
16 min
When we look at the arousal states from coordination and movement point of view, which arousal state looks like the good place to be? It’s actually written in the descriptions of the arousal states, where The Flow is linked to controlled and deliberate...
Nov 13, 2020
11 min
The story of why I started working on movement exercises with my dog Mr Bo. The story includes some poisoned cues created by the lack of physical skills. It also talks about how being in control of the movement can be reinforcing to our learners.
Nov 6, 2020
11 min
In the future episodes we'll talk a lot about coordination. And movement skills (that happen to be pretty much same thing!). How does coordination training differ from common canine fitness programs? Why do our dogs need separate coordination training?...
Oct 30, 2020
8 min
It may happen that when teaching new behaviors to our dogs, we would like all the repetitions to become as similar as possible. Especially when training something for competitive sports.Let's look at this from the movement perspective. What does good...
Oct 26, 2020
9 min
In this episode we are going to discuss if fitness training is only for the sports dogs. Or if maybe it's crucial in every training program as without it... we would be lumping?!
Oct 24, 2020
7 min
Welcome to The Moving Canine podcast! It all starts here, the journey of exploring movement and coordination. And discovering how arousal state or handler mechanics affects our dog's fitness skills.I am Mari Valgma, CPCFT. I have been teaching canine...
Oct 24, 2020
4 min