Articles Tagged: front cross

Having a dog with well-trained turn cues can make your life easier and is also much easier on your dog’s body and brain. In this series, you’ll learn how to teach your dog the seven turn cues. Here are more drills for the third cue, the front cross.

Having a dog with well-trained turn cues can make your life easier and is also much easier on your dog’s body and brain. In this series, you’ll learn how to teach your dog the seven turn cues. Here’s the third cue, the front cross.

This month Jenny gives further examples of how she uses front and blind crosses in her handling system.

We’re now going to look at how you can use Jenny’s system in real life. In this installment of the series, Jenny explains how she uses front and blind crosses.

This month we’ll explore when, where, and why to use front, double-front, and rear crosses as well as serpentine handling on course.

Jenny’s foundation training basically consists of reinforcing the cues used on course. The dog should be 100% tuned into your body and your cues. It’s important to build confidence in the dog, so that he knows he can always trust your cues. Even if you make a mistake in handling, you still always make sure to reward the dog.

at how the figure-eight exercise can be used to practice previously learned skills as well as some new skills.

This month we compare front crosses in each system. The front cross is the maneuver that has the biggest difference in handling between the two systems.

This month Jenny Damm presents an overview of her handling system, including its history and philosophy, her three basic rules, the crosses she uses for changes of side, and the cues she uses to tell the dog to turn or to go straight.

This month, Greg offers exercises to proof your dog’s response to a front cross, deceleration cue, and positional cue, as well as suggestions for practicing your front-cross timing.

This month we learn more about how to apply Linda’s handling system to cue a chosen strategy for common sequences encountered on course.

Use this month’s drills to work on speed and accuracy as well as entries, exits, and your handling position as your dog exits.

Practicing your front-cross footwork without your dog will help you to create smoother movement when you begin to practice with your dog.

Cueing your front crosses earlier than advocated in the Derrett handling system to get your dog to turn tighter may have short-term benefits, but it can also have long-term fallout.

Last month’s article explained how to teach your dog to recognize your cue for a front cross. Now you’ll learn why you need to train lateral distance for the front cross and how to teach it.