Jan Van Maren

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

So the pressure is going away.

Well, sometimes you try to introduce it with the helpers because getting their form back, for realizing that you still need to bring a fight, not going, picking up, run to the other side and stop. That's not the point of doing protection work. Right. Protection work, it's going to be a gladiator with a dog. Well, one is going off the field.

and and it's still contact sport so giving a fight brings giving a fight brings all different kind of situations um even i believe that even to keep the interest in a igp dog to do it

Well, it brings something, of course. So it brings extra energy in the fight.

Well, we believe that to create good helpers, to create the best helpers, you need to monitor them, to educate them, to evaluate them. We're busy to write stuff down from what do we want to see? How are we getting there and how can we keep that kind of level?

First to the competition stuff, because you have to start somewhere and competition stuff that are They have certain exercises that are always the same. From there on, we're going to work backwards. What kind of exercises do we need to teach the helpers to make the movements better, the eye-hand coordination, the footwork, etc.

Well, it was a little bit of the focus. But now we're refocusing back on that kind of stuff. So we selected now two helpers to do the Dutch championships. The guys who are not working from this point to that point, but because they are in a fight.

Yes, of course. Because we need that. They took away the tickets, so what's left? So, and that must be a motivation for other guys to work Well, that need to be a motivation for the other ones to be there in the Dutch championships as well. Because how the selection in the Netherlands goes is there are one day a year that they all have to come together.

We're going to train with a few instructors and we give them advice. Of course, they don't have to take it with them, but Well, that's of course free of choice.

And we have one selection day. So at that day, they have to bring four dogs. They have to work four short programs, four long programs.

So they can have two of their own and two different dogs. Why to have to own dogs? Because the pressure is high on that kind of days and because it's a sort of competition between the helpers.

Well, it's a little bit of competition for the helpers who are getting the nicest trials. So the best helpers are getting the Dutch championships. So that's a motivation to work hard for something, at least if you want to. Right. So this year we probably we didn't choose the most technical ones, the most safe ones. Well, they are all safe because they're all good, but we choose for fight. So.

Well, pressure starts, of course, only with one thing is how is the helper going on the field? With what kind of mentality is he stepping on the field? Is he stepping on the field because 5000 people are filming? Oh, I may not make mistakes. It must look good because then we get some more trials. Or is he stepping on the field for now? Let's find out. And Well, I prefer the last thing.

So if they... Well, what's the second? I think it starts with that.

Yes, with the attitude. Because if you don't have the attitude, you cannot give pressure.

Yeah, I think it matters. How faster you go, the less time there is to test the dog.

And how faster you are, there's always something more in motion than a dog can understand at that moment. So if you make the re-attack, if you make the drive and you're going really fast, it ends also really fast. Yeah. The protection is already a fast game. So, take the dog on the ground, bow over the dog, the stick presence.

Yeah, and another typical thing is you already mentioned a little bit helpers are picking the dog up. Exactly how I said, picking the dogs up instead of making a real attack. with no moving sleeve and stick in front of the sleeve. Yeah.

Yeah. And you also mentioned the place where the dog wants to be. So if you pick up a dog and you're going to start running and having the sleeve a little bit high, the dog is not going, cannot go anywhere. Yes.

So what we try to teach the helpers in the Netherlands is work low with the dog on the ground, four paws on the ground, straight back and do everything with your legs and with your shoulders. And well, try to make it as dark as possible for the dog.

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