Jan Van Maren

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Training Without Conflict® | Dog Training Podcast · Episode Fifty-Eight: Jan Van Maren · 22 Apr 2025 podcast

Yeah, it's been good.

Yeah, yeah. I have no problems with jet lag and stuff.

No, I didn't travel somewhere. No, I've been home now for a half year because our little girl was born.

Yeah, the kids.

It took a little while, a little break from traveling to take care of everything.

Well, it's not a very long story. My dad was in dog sport at an examination. They took me to the club just to watch how the exam was going. Just to watch, right? Yeah, just to watch. And after a while, at the end of the day, they put some girls in a suit and they say, Jan, you cannot stay behind now, so you have to do it as well. I said, okay.

So I put the suit on, did it a couple of times, went back to football. And I think it took a half year when I came back to the club and never stopped doing helper work.

So that was, wow, that's a long time ago when I was 16, like 18 years ago. So being helper now for 18 years.

There are nice competitions and big competitions. So the biggest competitions I get was, of course, the World Championships in the Netherlands. Which year was that? 2017, right?

Yeah, that was a good one.

Well, you're trying to find the edges of what is still in the rules and what's not. Sometimes you're crossing a little bit over, but yeah, It's our world championship, so dogs need to be tested.

you do some part of the education for the helpers in in netherlands right yeah now since since one and a half years uh i think uh first uh together with vincent the helper course um invited to do another one later this year so Well, looking forward to it. And also the judging commission now since, well, the last examination.

Well, the interest is not very high. There are new people coming and staying. And surprisingly, because of the membership is getting down, the number of helpers are, well, not going that bad. Okay, okay. So that's cool.

Well, I feel bad because this ticket is necessary in my eyes to give the final touch to the judge how a dog is going to react. I really don't understand why they took it off because... Right, they didn't have to.

So there are a lot of years, there are rules to give stick hits. So it's investigated if it harm a dog or not.

So in my opinion, there is no reason to take away this, that they took away the stick hits. But yeah...

Yeah, you know, the good thing about a stick hit was you can do it on different times. So you make the re-attack, you're going into the pressure phase, and if a dog gives a reaction, it may be not after four steps or five steps, but maybe after two steps. It's still legal to give a stick hit at that moment, and that are the moments where a judge can... see something's going on here. Right.

And well, they took away that

Well, I'm curious about the different ways to put extra pressure then.

Well, not so much when already in the fight. And while the stick hits, given properly, it brings you in a position as helper with the dog on the ground. It gives you the opportunity to give the dog a stick hit for having the pressure so the dog is under you. It's good. You're creating a dark hole. And now with it, without the stick hits, it's gone. The helpers are getting up.

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