Channeling

Jeff Oehlsen · May 9, 2006

Channeling.

Since we have crazy different opinions on fight drive, I thought this might be interesting to argue peacably about.

Subtopics could be importance, emphasis, and good techniques for doing so.

David Frost · May 9, 2006

Is that the same as focus? Just curious. Like you said, we all have some crazy definitions.

DFrost

Jerry Lyda · May 9, 2006

I'm not sure either, what's channeling?

Bob Scott · May 9, 2006

Confused here also.
Are you talking about redirecting a dog's drive/behavior into something more functional?
ex: Channeling a dog's sleeve work into civil work.

Greg Long · May 9, 2006

I have heard people talk of working a dog in defense and then "channeling" back into prey,Im not sure if this what Jeff meant.
I just "channel" prey and defense and whatever else the dog has to the decoy...LOL.

Greg

Jeff Oehlsen · May 10, 2006

An example would be channeling frustration back into the bite.

In the old days, maybe after an OB session that the dog got corrected harshly, and you could see the frustration building up, we would get a correct behavior and then give the dog a bite.

Bob Scott · May 10, 2006

Similar to the old saying about always ending on a high note? When the dog is making mistakes, finish on something that is rewarding to him?

Jeff Oehlsen · May 10, 2006

No, not so much as attempting to take the frustration and put it into the bite. Not real good at explaining this, much better at showing. In the "old" days this was done often with defense as well.

Bob Scott · May 10, 2006

In other words, your using the frustration to build more intensity in the bite? If so, that makes sense.

David Frost · May 10, 2006

I'm just not familiar with the word used in that context. I understand the concept Bob was referring too. We just called it, "building the dog up". The military was never really very technical.

DFrost

Daryl Ehret · May 11, 2006

"Building tension/anticipation, for it's eventual climactic release."?

Jeff Oehlsen · May 11, 2006

Quote:"Building tension/anticipation, for it's eventual climactic release."?

by channeling into the bite.

Jose Alberto Reanto · May 11, 2006

Jeff Oehlsen said:
An example would be channeling frustration back into the bite.

In the old days, maybe after an OB session that the dog got corrected harshly, and you could see the frustration building up, we would get a correct behavior and then give the dog a bite.

Jeff, are you referring to the OLD ways of training dogs in Sports?

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