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by Jemima Harrison on 21 February 2010 - 13:02

I've seen a lot of pix of dogs doing a running walk/supported trot, but not a flying trot.

Could anyone point me to pictures of GSDs doing a flying trot?

Jemima

by AmbiiGSD on 21 February 2010 - 13:02

Try Google it is a wonderful tool!

There are a lot of breeds capable of the 'Flying trot' apart from GSD's

by Jemima Harrison on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

Well I have of course tried Google - admittedly not extensively. But pix labelled as a flying trot are not - they're a running walk/supported trot.

Only one I could find is this one of an American GSD:

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Jemima

by Penny on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

For myself, I dont like the term flying trot - it suggests great speed and does not describe the spacious ground covering gait that is correct. The link that Jemima has put up is a dog gaiting with full extension from both fore and aft. The GSD is a trotting animal, and does not need to get up to record speeds, it is correct to cover the ground economically and spaciously, giving the look of a dog not putting effort in, but covering much of the ground excellently.
On a good moving GSD you can almost see them "changing gear" as does a horse increasing speed, havent found that one very easy to describe, perhaps others can help out. Mo.

by missbeeb on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFpKL0qRQ0

by AmbiiGSD on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

I believe and someone can and most likely will put me right on this...'The flying trot' is an American term' based on the more angulation the more ground the dog can cover using less energy. Which is why it's seen in Ambred GSD's

The best to this day video of a GSD gaiting is the SV's Dingo video. Which I am pretty sure you will have seen.

If you haven't and for those that haven't it's available on utube here:

www.youtube.com/watch

by Jemima Harrison on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

Well yes, saw this one, but it's from 1983 (or thereabouts). If GSDs in today's showring looked like this fella, there wouldn't be much to critcise. I can't find anything recent that comes close to this dog's movement (but admit I have not looked extensively).

One anatomist I've talked to still thinks that there is too much laxity in Dingo's pasterns - that the front foot should not flatten out to the stop-pad, nor his back foot to the hock. But I have to confess I find him a pleasure to watch.

Do others agree that this dog moves beautifully? How do you think he compares to today's dogs?

Jemima

by missbeeb on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

Jemima, I have been watching a DVD only this morning from the Sieger show 2008... plenty come close, though Dingo was pretty sensational.

by AmbiiGSD on 21 February 2010 - 14:02

Dingo was poetry in motion, because he was Balanced, his hind angulation matched his fore angulation, allowing the perfect harmony that gave him that superb gait.

There are plenty of dogs that are equally as balanced but the only way to see their true gait; is off-lead at their natural pace, in a similar way to which that video was filmed, not on a tread mill or running around a ring. IMHO

by Sunsilver on 21 February 2010 - 15:02

So, where are the pictures of current showline GSDs doing a flying trot? Come on, surely there must be some!

And if not, WHY not?

Missbeeb, do you have links to some of those dogs from 2008?

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