Jan Van Maren

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Training Without Conflict® | Dog Training Podcast · Episode Fifty-Eight: Jan Van Maren · 22 Apr 2025 podcast
So for the long bite, the long bite is quite an exercise. Not really complex, but a lot of things happens in a very short amount of time. We have to deal with different things. So the mentality of the helper, is he ready? But what exercises can we teach to make it better? In the Netherlands, we teach helpers to make rotations. That is very good for the eye-hand coordination.
Yeah, the spinning, yeah. But not like a helicopter, but stepping away, make an explosion of power. with the dog on the ground and turn it to the other way and do that a couple of times. It helps a lot with eye-hand coordination, with your footwork. What helps in that kind of exercises, because a lot of things are happening, a lot of techniques are in one time.
And also very important with teaching a helper the long bite is not stepping back.
Well, there's a reason for it. If you step back with catching dogs, for most dogs it's okay because you're going backwards, sleeveless, a little bit in motion, but it's prey drive. Sure, sure, yes. Every movement backwards is prey drive, is giving the dog more energy, more motivation to get the sleeve. In terms of doing competition work, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So if we prepare helpers to do competition, nothing may go backwards. Everything must be offensive. You are the leader. You are going to dictate the fight. So stepping backwards is not good.
Yeah, so the benefits of stepping into the dog. So as I put your right foot in front, as it gives you the opportunity to move your hips away. So you can be a small person with the sleeve high, with the stock in front, because the whole posture will make it possible to catch the dog on a good way.
And of course, there are always some moments that it could be more supple and stuff, but it's contact sport.
Yeah, and sometimes it happens and sometimes maybe you're a little bit too late or the dog is going inside or outside. Well, that's still the moment. And the many hours you do helper work, the better you can recognize that kind of behavior.
Well, teaching young dogs, young dogs must first have the confidence to take the sleeve, because if you look into the dog, for a dog, it needs to be a prey exercise.
because if you if you don't make it a prey exercise they are going everywhere right and that that makes it hard to to teach a proper grip and and stuff so we are using um i am using uh with the young dogs yeah a lot of times half sleeves um But we try to change it as soon as possible to a normal sleep. Because you need to prepare. And it takes time. It takes repetitions.
The movement is different.
it does matter because if you have dogs that are very much in prey drive you have dogs that are easily triggered into frustration and stuff and my best experiences are dogs with a good prey drive but also a little bit easy to get in into frustration because if a dog is getting into frustration
he really wants to do something what benefits his own so and if a dog is a little bit in frustration and having a good prey drive they are one one they want to reach something so well For me, that's the best combination in type of dog for teaching the long bites.
For dogs that are really in aggression and having difficulties to switch from aggression to prey drive or something like that, in first case, we focus on just catching something. So outside the body, because dogs that are in aggression it's a very thin line between confidence how much they can handle right yes so if you're having dogs in aggression and you let them
touch your body every time they are going to search for your body which make it in in later stadium different difficult to finish the exercise dedication right if they're not good jumpers being because they're aggressive or because they're unsure would you
Well, there are some techniques to make a dog stronger in that point. If we go a little bit back in the time, we put the dog on a pole, we hit them and running back and send the dog straight after you. While it's hot, yeah. Yeah, so they experience... They experience some pressure, they experience a little bit of pain. Well, not pain, but getting physically touched.
Yes, and then the helper is running away, so the dog wins there the fight.
Yes, and get released and just getting something. And, well, it... It can bring good results, but they are still dogs, so not every time you can have the same result.
Well, for me, it really doesn't matter how far it is because after 10 meters, the dog is on speed. So the most handlers are very careful with their dogs, but for a dog, it doesn't really matter if it's like 10 meters or 50 meters. Maybe for the picture for the dog, it's different.
sometimes with teaching young dogs you're making short bites especially when you need to have a lot of repetitions so dogs are having problems to switch from prey drive to aggression the other way so you make a dog out getting a few meters away and let the dog just come but that's to build the prey drive there
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