HGH training video clips - Page 1

Regarding HGH herding: There is a total lack of training videos and books about HGH training. I have been asked many times to make herding videos. I now have a young adult GSD in training that is supposed to get titled in the fall. During the course of the year I will make short video clips that I will post on youtube that will outline the training step by step. These videos cannot and will not give you all the training details but will show you what is involved. I will be available for broad public discussions on this and other forums about training. I’d like to stay away from any controversial discussions. You can also always contact me privately for paid private consultation to discuss training details.

Here are my first two samples. Keep in mind that these are my first attempts to publish anything on youtube. Pardon the crude quality. I hope to be able to refine the process as time goes by. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LS7i-Takc0 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSouRUG6T0

These are great, and I am really looking forward to more of them.  Thank you for sharing them!

Heather

Yes, please more videos,  It is really exciting to watch a dog starting out.  What are the prerequisites for starting on the HGH?

Is a BH required?

Michele

Ulf, you may be interested in this link  www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/bulletins_read/303758.html   which explains how to "embed" video right into your post.

for example  

I am disappointed with the way you reacted to the other thread .

Ulf...Thank you very much for sharing that..can't wait to see more  You have great knowledge and it is a privilege to be able to learn from you. We can all benefit seeing GSD perform what they were bred to do and how they come to achieve it.

What I find funny in every HGH video I saw coming from your place is the sound of the wind!!!  Is it always windy like that?? The video I did for Kristin was so windy I had to put music instead of the real sounds..anyway we didn't need the sounds to see that she and Lara did a great run !
 
Thanks again...Julie

I appreciate someone who has experience and knowledge sharing that.

Ulf, you stated earlier, if I understood correctly, that dogs trained in C-course had shown the ability to transfer over to HGH. I am beginning to work a dog in c-course and, as myself and the stock-owner will be learning together; it is of great benefit to learn methods of starting a tending dog.

Are you familiar enough with C-course to give an opinion as to whether the "waking up the drive" method shown in the above video would be a good way to start?

Most of the C-course instructors I have seen do it with a "human fence" and I am not altogether comfortable with that method.

Thanks, Mary

<<Is a BH required?>>

No.

I described this in length in this thread:

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/bulletins_read/367253.html?pagen=2#367393

<< What I find funny in every HGH video I saw coming from your place is the sound of the wind!!!>>

Yes, not so pleasant in the winter, great in the summer when the wind keeps mosquitoes away.

<<Are you familiar enough with C-course to give an opinion as to whether the "waking up the drive" method shown in the above video would be a good way to start?>>

I have trained a number of people to achieve their c-course title. I would say that the training for C-course would be no different than HGH herding other than the number of sheep if trained correctly. However, there are some who disagree with me, who think C-course is American and don’t want to hear anything about HGH herding.

<<Most of the C-course instructors I have seen do it with a "human fence" and I am not altogether comfortable with that method.>>

I am unfamiliar with that term.

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I am unfamiliar with that term."

Human Fence--- (my interpretation) Rather than starting a young dog behind an actual fence, they have a line of people along the border (with crooks) to keep the beginning dog off of the sheep and behind the border. The dogs are not "hurt" and I started two this way. One of my dogs was fine with this method, the other is more sensitive and I put him away rather quickly, because it was obvious he was not learning anything, just getting confused.

Sometimes, I am a bit of a mother-hen when it comes to my dogs though:)
 

--Mary