A secret to a long and injury-free agility career:
Tricks for balance, strength and coordination - definitely the tricks that my dogs do most often from all the tricks they know, as a part of their conditioning program and their warm up routines! Tricks are definitely a perfect way to keep your dog fit, injury-free and fast and agile on agility course!
The video is almost 2 hours long and costs 47 eur/62 usd (+ 5 eur for shipping for DVD version -- the same no matter how many DVDs you order).
As always you can choose between two options:
- download (the file is 800Mb)
- DVD (shipped to your address -- anywhere in the world):
While Tricks for a great bond video addresses how to teach tricks in general, with some basic explanations of shaping etc., Tricks for better thinking skills really explore the dog’s mind in all its dimensions, allow you to see how your dog thinks and learn how he learns. The tricks explained are my favorite 10+ tricks that help the dog to learn the concepts of learning, we’ll be working on their problem solving, complex thinking and generalization skills and I sure hope you’ll have as much fun with it as we do! And I promise that after mastering the tricks from this DVD, every next thing to teach your dog will be a piece of cake. 
To see the trailer:
The video is 1h20min long and costs 46e (about 63$)
To order:
1. download
2. DVD version
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The content:
- why: 10 positive side-effects of teaching tricks
- how: general explanation on how to teach whatever trick you want
- step by step instructions how to teach 10 tricks, from basic to advanced ones
- trouble shooting (dog not offering anything, dog not motivated, dog too excited, getting stuck somewhere etc.)
The trailer:
Ordering options, the price is 45€:
1. you can download the video, it is 1h 20min long, file is 800Mb big (2h on a 1.024Mbs line).
In case of problems with playing the video please try using the free VLC media player available at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
2. you can buy the DVD version. Shipping costs additional 5€, it takes usually 6 working days for the DVD to get to you.
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Pingback from Games for my GSD - German Shepherd Dog Forums on September 21, 2011 at 22:43
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Hi, I have your DVD tricks for a great bond (and tricks for better thinking skills). We’ve been working (well… playing
) through the tricks on the first video but I am very much stuck at 9 and 10… I’ve never really managed to teach Terra a proper take and hold that is important in many tricks. What we do have is the objekt into bowl from puppy class, but it is kind of hectic and he tends to drop it atleast once before he gets it right. He dosn’t really carry it even if he needs to move it a distance, he takes it, throws it towards the bowl and then goes there and puts it in. We have also tried just having an objekt on the floor and shaping but we never manage to get ANY duration on the hold. He just takes and drops it right away. I tried shaping it while holding the objekt and I got a take and a nice pull. Well I think I shaped tugging without thinking about it but the second I let go of the toy he lets go too. I tried it with the tail and yes I got mouthing, a short take (as trying to pick up his tail 
) but no duration as expected. I would appreciate some thoughts… It’s kind of a biggie for uss. It took a loooong time to get Leevi holding an objekt, for him what worked was asking for a take and right after for a stay while keeping eyecontact, I’ve thied this too but no luck. Just drops it. It beeing any objekt. It’s also a biggie since I’m thinking about competing in obediance and I think this understanding could help him in a formal retrieve…
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Well, he really liked to play in puppy class, so I guess this should be easy if he didn’t expect food reward. So only use tugging for a reward for a hold first. You can try tugging with a really long rope and in between, do some running around, holding one part of a toy while he holds the other. You can put a constant pressure on it first if he releases otherwise, but then slowly loosen it up so that he holds a loose rope, running after you. Once he can do that, try some running, then tug, then loosen a rope, ask him for something easy, like a sit or down and for a reward, go directly into tugging. Slowly add time before going into tugging after you ask him for a sit. If he releases a toy, take it away (you hold the other part for now, so you can easily “steal” it if he lets it go). If he holds on it, go into tugging. Once he gets the game, name it. Switch to other objects next, those you can’t hold anymore, but you can still play with to start with. Once he is fine with that too and understands the concept, you will soon be able to progress to rewarding with food too, for holding objects you can’t play with (like a tail
). Hope that helps!
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Tat’s recent trick she learned from one of your DVDs
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That was too funny! Tat sure seems to love the trick! And wow, she did some growing since the last video!
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Hi Silvia!
I wanted to share our video, it is Terra showing off tricks 1-8 from “tricks for a great bond”
. I think he looks very cute (of course) <3. Some of the video is atleast half a year old cause I started this a long time ago and just forgot to finish it lol . We are still working on tricks 9 and 10. We got over our initiall problem of confusion over duration but I accidentally managed to train a "grab your tail and spin in circles" or when he is in the mood: "grab your tail and play keepaway"! . It looks adorable so I don't mind, should tape that one too… #10 to Terra means "grab da mamas fingers whan she's trying to hold my paw" yeah, he decided it was safer to mouth my fingers than his own paws 1 likes-
That sure was extra cute! Great job! Loved the vaults and saying yes and no! Too funny when you’re saying yes and he is saying no
Grabbing their own paw often doesn’t make any sense to them, but well, I’m sure he will get that one too!
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Silvia, My dog is showing stress when entering the agility ring and she refuses to run even though she enjoys running in training. I am teaching tricks now to build her confidence and to help her learn how to work through her stress. I have your Ready Steady Go DVD, but now would like to get one with tricks. Which one would you recommend? Love your training methods and your enthusiasm. I know that with using your methods, my little Mia will get over that stress issue. Thanks so much!
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My favourite tricks video is Thinking Tricks, but the other two cover more active tricks that you could use before the start as happy tricks. Maybe Tricks for balance, strength and coordination would be best as many of the tricks are useful for both physical and mental warm up before the start. I’m sure she will get over the stress issue, it just takes lots of patience. – Great for building a really great bond!
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Hi Silvia,
I would like to buy your “Tricks for balance, strength and coordination”- Dvd, but first I’d like to know if the tricks containing hind feet work are explained from the beginning because my dog has huge problems using her hind feet.
And I have no clue how to start those exercises.
Or is there any other Dvd showing these aspects?
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Yes, all the tricks are explained from step one, I’m showing beginning steps with Le when she was 2 months and just starting off. So this DVD is the right choice for teaching hind feet awareness.
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Hi Silvia! I have an one year old and he knows some basic tricks already, but I am going into agility with him in August and would like to know which one of your DVD’s would suit us best.
He paws me all the time to get attention, but doesn’t really tug on toys. He is often focussed on me, but is easily distracted by my other dogs running by and he is a bit sensitive.
Thank you
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Well, most agility related videos would be Ready-Steady-GO! and Cik&Cap. From tricks videos, Trick for balance, strength and coordination are great as preparation for agility too. But of course, any trick is actually a great preparation for agility! I would probably recommend Tricks for balance, strength and coordination and Ready-Steady-GO! to start with.
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Thank you
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Hi Silvia!
Just to let you know I’ve received my tricks DVDs and love them! My agility students always go back home with quite a lot of lolabuland “homework” (or should I say “homeplay”!
) and not only does it improve their dogs’ motivation, flexibility and balance, but it also enables them to work on their clicker training skills (most of them are new to clicker training!).
Anyway, I have a question about the “fetch your tail” trick. Infact my beagle used to offer it by herself just to attract attention when begging for food, so I captured it quite a lot of times and tried to name it. Only when in another situation (i-e not begging food at the table, but really working) she won’t do it, so I assume she did not transfer it, nor does she understand the command. And what’s more, now that I’ve reinforced her for it at the table, she litterally persters us when we eat making funny noises and grabbing her tail for the whole meal (even when we try to ignore her!). So I am obliged to ask her for a down-stay, because I feel she’s becoming too “pushy” (as a beagle she’s quite a willful little one! ) but I don’t want to loose her impulse to try and do things (she just LOVES shaping), as I don’t want to loose her behaviour of grabbing her tail (it’s really too cute!), but I can’t seem to be able to put it under stimulus control!
Would you advise re-shaping the trick completely as you show in the “tricks for a great bond video”? Or keep on capturing-reinforcing it? Or both?
I’d love to have your opinion on this…
Thanks a lot!Love from France!
Marie
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Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear you liked the DVDs! Since catching her tail seems to be some kind of obsessive behaviour for her, I probably wouldn’t be capturing it as it just reinforces it further – as you noticed already. So keep practising down when you eat so that you can reward for appropriate behaviour and teach catching the tail as a shaping trick, from zero. At one point, she will connect the two and you will be able to progress faster from that pint on, but she will have a different attitude towards it then, so I think it’s safer to go that way. Have fun!
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Ok, so I’ll try and command the “fetch your tail” when we eat before she proposes it herself (my husband will go berserk! LOL!) and at the same time free shaping it during clicker sessions! Got it!
Just one more thing: when she does it, she always grabs her tail turning to her right (like Bi in your video) but never to the left. As it’s a trick she offered by herself I guess it’s the side she’s more comfortable turning to (although I didn’t really notice this when she learned to spin both sides, she’s fine turning either right or left). But as you insist in all your videos on working the dog on both sides always for flexibility tricks, when re-shaping the trick, should I go for “left side grabbing” as well?
Sorry to bother you with such details, I’m actually freaking out because she’s got that important national finals in a month (she runs with my husband) and I’m the (un)official health and fitness coach!
Anyways thanks for the tip, and the speedy answer, as always!
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Good luck for the trial! And yes, I always teach both sides when using tricks for conditioning and doing them a lot. I didn’t teach grabbing a tail on both sides because it’s not something we would do a lot at all: I trained it and we’ll do it occasionally just for fun, but not often at all, so it can’t really affect her left vs. right balance. But of course, you could teach both, why not!?!
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Thanks!
Ok, I thought as much when watching your video, but just wanted to check! I’ll try and teach it both sides eventually! She’s such a smart one she still amazes me at 6 years old! Who said hunting dogs are untrainable?! LOL!
Anyways thank you ever so much for the advice!Love,
Marie
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