Teaching a good courage test - Page 1

What are the different ways that us schutzhund people help train our dogs to have a wonderful courage test???? 
FAST
HARD 
AND ALL IN!!!!!

I just focus on the sit..... The rest happens on it's own:).

The dog brings it on his own, we help by not jamming the dog.  Here is a good example :)

fastcourage test has to do with levels of drives , and can be influencedin both ways by training a little bit , for me , there is much more of importance than the couragetest , that in fact has nothing to do with courage at all , I know plenty of shitdogs with a fast hard couragetest and great dogs that dont come hard

It MUST be an ATTENTION SIT...

We did this with Bernard Flinks last summer, like all things regardless of the quality of the dog it has to be progressive training to develop technique, conditioning and minimise the risk of injuries to dog, and even the helper.

I think we started with the helper standing still, shouting and the dog running in and getting a bite.
We then progressed to the Helper running towards the dog and shouting, but when the dog was half way the helper started running backwards away from the dog and getting the bite.

Then we progressed to helper running forward and stopping, then over time we put it all together but started at shorted distances before building up to the full package.

There were some early phases when the dog was on a line and the Helper running away, and the dog running after him but being slowed by the handler over the first half of the distance to build some frustration, this worked well.

You can put pieces of wood or chairs in front of the Helper to get the dog to jump but thats for show. Seasoned K9's and Navy Seal Dogs don't go in like this because they've experienced the bad guy moving out the way and once you hit some hard and horrible like a wall of a car you tend you remember. Good luck but there will be many other succesful methods out there.

Ronin