Everytime I give my cue - he bounces. I can track this back to using the hand touch for too long and too high, which made him practice this jump instead of only raising his head. For him, this is what my cue for basic means. I will now go in and fix this - I plan to video my session today where I trouble shoot and post in this thread - and take you on the journey of a better basic position!

Rumi just turned 8 months and she is my first Belgian to train in PSA—also my first dog to train focused heeling with so I’m a mess LOL. I think this looks okay, but I have no experience to go off. I’d also love some feedback on my arm placement and if what I’m doing has helped Rumi start to find some rhythm? I think so… but might be wishful thinking. I thought I was placing my hand further back in the lure… but after watching this video, I feel like it’s either slightly too forward or it doesn’t stay in the same spot as I walk and try to get rhythm from Rumi. All insight will be helpful for next session :)

This is a snippet from River’s session today. I can see that I am going to need to bring some food into the sit in motion so I can pay her literally in the sit instead of out of it with a toy. I am also going to layer in some opposition on the lead (will take a video of this for you all). Where I have built up a lot of go go go so I can bring this energy and drive into my heeling, I can now see I need to add more stability in behaviours such as the basic position of heel, the down and sit. Her bum is ever so slightly up in anticipation of us heeling together. This is why it’s so important we record our sessions to look back on if we can’t have someone spotting for us. It’s a nice problem to have and I’ll now be sure to pay some attention to stability. Overall really happy with the energy she is bringing with a full fade. In our chosen sport the most points come from stays, heeling and fast recalls which all contradict each other ha so I will be playing this delicate dancing act juggling all the components

Hi Team, just need a bit of help/feedback here, my name is Jeanine, from Perth, Australia and I've been working on the focus heel, I've slowed this video down hopefully better for you to review. Am I on the right track here? How do I get her to lift her feet up more? We've been working to find out rhythm, but sometimes I think I'm getting it then I can't work out what I did? Or I think I got it, then look back and realise nope! Any advice would be great, thanks in advance. :)

I’m keeping left side for contact heel & doing focus on right for now. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong ? I think I’ve got dreadful rhythm generally so maybe that’s part of it? I’ve slowed my movement down & there are glimmers of prancing… is bunny hopping a sign that my hand is too high? Thank you :)