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by Koach on 22 March 2012 - 23:03
I translated this from the French language to English so that you would be able to get the feeling of what French Ringsport is all about. Hope you enjoy.
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Often criticized wrongly because of the biting exercises similar to gratuitous violence, French Ring is a wonderful discipline requiring technical perfection and always spectacular.
More than any other of the canine disciplines, Ring, an elitist discipline par excellence, can bring glory! Has it not already its living legends? And spectators are not wrong! The Ring’s public knows what is beautiful to see, they greet with a clamor technical moves when they are close to perfect. They also knows compassion!
When the dog, ordered a few tenths of a second too late to stop, bites on “l’attaque arrêtée”, when he forgets to defend his master or refuses to go out on the “send away”. ... .. a murmur is heard from the stands.
The Ringueurs as connoisseurs are able to vibrate, explode for a perfect technical movement, encouraging the competitors with great blows of applause and horns, in a stadium where the atmosphere is sometimes comparable to a soccer final. This is also the charm of this discipline: excessive, exaggerated at times. But excess is certainly part of this sport of astonishing technicality that does not forgive. Here, everything is pushed to excess, starting with the quest for perfection itself! From the outset, those who practice this discipline are engaged in a genuine quest for performance.
The Ring is the art of sowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind and calming the elements at any time. Because the dog is primarily a dog under control: control in what is most extreme in the dog’s intense pleasure to bite. Between the face attack and “l’attaque arrêtée”, it says it all. The dog is able to be inordinately courageous, incisive, aggressive, decisive, and the next moment, in the same movement, the same approach to within a meter of its target, a few hundredths of a second of impact, even at the height of his motivation, stopped, cut short in its tracks.
The splendor of the ring lies in the juxtaposition of these two images. In the efficiency of decision, when the dog takes the cloth at full face ... .. and the prohibition of any bite after the cessation order.
The Ring dog is up to the challenge. It must be physical, fast, voluntary, sporting, decisive, courageous but also rigorous, balanced, able to dominate and to respond to a quarter second.
In this methodical discipline, rigorous sometimes to the extreme, almost military, every detail is important. Hence the allure of rigid handlers, as at attention. Admittedly, the
Regulations do not forgive! any gesture, any sign can be interpreted as an additional command and cost points. Regulations of Ring is are real corset.
Author Unknown
Often criticized wrongly because of the biting exercises similar to gratuitous violence, French Ring is a wonderful discipline requiring technical perfection and always spectacular.
More than any other of the canine disciplines, Ring, an elitist discipline par excellence, can bring glory! Has it not already its living legends? And spectators are not wrong! The Ring’s public knows what is beautiful to see, they greet with a clamor technical moves when they are close to perfect. They also knows compassion!
When the dog, ordered a few tenths of a second too late to stop, bites on “l’attaque arrêtée”, when he forgets to defend his master or refuses to go out on the “send away”. ... .. a murmur is heard from the stands.
The Ringueurs as connoisseurs are able to vibrate, explode for a perfect technical movement, encouraging the competitors with great blows of applause and horns, in a stadium where the atmosphere is sometimes comparable to a soccer final. This is also the charm of this discipline: excessive, exaggerated at times. But excess is certainly part of this sport of astonishing technicality that does not forgive. Here, everything is pushed to excess, starting with the quest for perfection itself! From the outset, those who practice this discipline are engaged in a genuine quest for performance.
The Ring is the art of sowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind and calming the elements at any time. Because the dog is primarily a dog under control: control in what is most extreme in the dog’s intense pleasure to bite. Between the face attack and “l’attaque arrêtée”, it says it all. The dog is able to be inordinately courageous, incisive, aggressive, decisive, and the next moment, in the same movement, the same approach to within a meter of its target, a few hundredths of a second of impact, even at the height of his motivation, stopped, cut short in its tracks.
The splendor of the ring lies in the juxtaposition of these two images. In the efficiency of decision, when the dog takes the cloth at full face ... .. and the prohibition of any bite after the cessation order.
The Ring dog is up to the challenge. It must be physical, fast, voluntary, sporting, decisive, courageous but also rigorous, balanced, able to dominate and to respond to a quarter second.
In this methodical discipline, rigorous sometimes to the extreme, almost military, every detail is important. Hence the allure of rigid handlers, as at attention. Admittedly, the
Regulations do not forgive! any gesture, any sign can be interpreted as an additional command and cost points. Regulations of Ring is are real corset.
by mimi on 23 March 2012 - 00:03
Thanks for sharing.
I'm a French Ring lover.
I do have a German Shepherd with a Brevet and one leg on his French Ring 1 title (needs 2 qualifying scores for the full title).
Thank God, new trials to come this year.
And I am also training a Belgian Shepherd.
I've been training for almost 3 years now and seen many dogs in my club.
It takes a hell of a good dog to perform in this sport!
Bite work is obsiously more demanding than schutzhund.
You would never see a decoy in schutzhund putting his stick in the mouth of a dog to prevent it from biting.
Neither trying to push the dog's head on the ground...
In French Ring sport, the decoy is trying hard to defeat the dog to make it fail.
Here's a video of my dog so you guys can see an exemple.....i just LOVE this sport!
I'm a French Ring lover.
I do have a German Shepherd with a Brevet and one leg on his French Ring 1 title (needs 2 qualifying scores for the full title).
Thank God, new trials to come this year.
And I am also training a Belgian Shepherd.
I've been training for almost 3 years now and seen many dogs in my club.
It takes a hell of a good dog to perform in this sport!
Bite work is obsiously more demanding than schutzhund.
You would never see a decoy in schutzhund putting his stick in the mouth of a dog to prevent it from biting.
Neither trying to push the dog's head on the ground...
In French Ring sport, the decoy is trying hard to defeat the dog to make it fail.
Here's a video of my dog so you guys can see an exemple.....i just LOVE this sport!
by Gusmanda on 23 March 2012 - 16:03
I wish GSD's that do french ring where better valued, as I think it is a good physical test for breeding worthiness. I would trust a FR3 dog not to have any back problems vs a IPO3 dog which you don't know for sure, for example. I know you see the same dogs in the peds (Fero, troll, Yoshy, Tom) but to me it is a health clearance to some extent. If your GSD has FR3, FH, and behaves well around kids, you've got a winner. Just my opinion of course, ok for others to disagree.
by brynjulf on 23 March 2012 - 17:03
Is that Xenon? If so he's gotten very handsome!
by myret on 23 March 2012 - 18:03
gusmanda
I agree
I agree
by Koach on 23 March 2012 - 20:03
Gusmanda said:
"If your GSD has FR3, FH, and behaves well around kids, you've got a winner."
Very well said. Adding the tracking title and the child neutral requirement makes for a complete dog indeed.
"If your GSD has FR3, FH, and behaves well around kids, you've got a winner."
Very well said. Adding the tracking title and the child neutral requirement makes for a complete dog indeed.
by mimi on 24 March 2012 - 01:03
Brynjulf, yes, the GSD in the video is Xenon v Bullinger.
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=554746
I am his trainer/handler.
I do agree that a FR3 dog has to be in top physical health.
Here are 2 other videos for your info :)
And here's a slow motion of what I was talking about, the GSD is a nice solid black male :)
You can see how the decoy is using his stick just seconds before the dog tries to bite.....the decoy is tryinig to fool the dog and to prevent it from biting.
That's why we show our dogs to bite anywhere on the bitesuit, they have to be quick and to find a way to bite the decoy.
And they have to be in top health.
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=554746
I am his trainer/handler.
I do agree that a FR3 dog has to be in top physical health.
Here are 2 other videos for your info :)
And here's a slow motion of what I was talking about, the GSD is a nice solid black male :)
You can see how the decoy is using his stick just seconds before the dog tries to bite.....the decoy is tryinig to fool the dog and to prevent it from biting.
That's why we show our dogs to bite anywhere on the bitesuit, they have to be quick and to find a way to bite the decoy.
And they have to be in top health.
by Smiley on 24 March 2012 - 02:03
H-O-L-Y C-R-A-P!!! Those were INCREDIBLE VIDEOS!! My mouth is, literally, hanging open!! WOW!! Are you kidding me!!!!
That's insane (in a good way)!! Thanks for posting as I have never watched a video of the french ringsport nor did I know anything about it....But, to my uneducated eye....those dogs look pretty kick ass (athletic, courageous, obedient)!!
Sara
That's insane (in a good way)!! Thanks for posting as I have never watched a video of the french ringsport nor did I know anything about it....But, to my uneducated eye....those dogs look pretty kick ass (athletic, courageous, obedient)!!
Sara
by Smiley on 24 March 2012 - 02:03
Just out of curiousity are there any US based German shepherd studs who have the FR3 title?
by myret on 24 March 2012 - 06:03
One of times greatest gsd Look at the drive when hé is told to out the jaws is just clapping a great gsd hope they Will take som semen from this one
Look at this object guard naturel drive hé has
://www.google.dk/url?q=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp94lb_razzia-du-vierzonnais_animals&sa=X&ei=2GttT97lHsnNswa4082IAg&ved=0CEcQuAIwBQ&usg=AFQjCNG1UJ1TTGu4oDPWqRzpvysv4CKTWA
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