F3003 Locked in: Teaching a Mark Forward Cue for Agility and Obedience

This foundation skill can be used on any dog sport that uses a send forward from heel position, or any position where the dog starts in a stay. Agility handlers, that includes the “fancy” start line skills of lateral leadouts and even starting behind them! Get obstacle commitment to the line you set without the guessing!

No more problems of dogs who start to send and then turn to bark at the handler!

Create clarity before the release and have confident, straight sends.

This class is appropriate for handlers who want to compete in any sport involving a send, but the lecture examples will be focused on the obedience go out and directed retrieves, and on agility startlines. We will look at the beginning steps of teaching these mark skills and start to generalize to the send in your chosen sport(s)!

Teaching Approach:

Lectures are released at the start of each week. The lectures are broken down by each skill, often in multiple parts. I have written objectives and then written instructions for each step followed by multiple video examples for each step from dogs still learning the behaviors. The videos are usually between 30sec to 2min long and are taken from training sessions of a variety of dogs. I rarely use voiceover in videos, but if it is added I have added/edited subtittles. At the end of each lecture is a homework summary with the steps quickly summarized in order.