 jumping exercise for IGP. Jumps, dumbbells and A-frame are very very complex exercise for the dog to learn and it's very expensive for competitors to lose points on. And so as always I like to break it down into smaller exercises. For the jump over the one meter jump I teach separately the dumbbells that you guys will be able to see in my videos that I will call retrieves and then also the jumping itself. Well many dogs so dobermans don't have issue jumping but if you teach it inappropriately and if the dog gets hurt in training it becomes an issue which is always which is often a problem with a lot of other breeds as well and I see that in training and I see that in trials where the dogs telling the helper the handler that they don't want to jump and so it's very to me it's very unnatural because dogs they love moving around jumping and running so this exercise should be very easy for a dog to perform. But let's set it up correctly so my focus in jumps so again dumbbells and retrieving is a completely different exercise we'll talk about it in an appropriate video. Hey leave it leave it good boy. And then jump itself what I do and what I focus on is that the dog needs to understand how to jump properly so it doesn't get hurt and a lot of people focus on the height I focus on the width so to me a doberman doesn't have an issue jumping over very high jumps or walls but the dog needs to know to stretch and so when I set up my jumps you'll see behind me in a second I usually do two I have two jumps and they are really low but they're spread apart and as I train I spread them further away and further away. The key to this exercise is to keep fun so the dog enjoys doing this and what I teach so one another thing so first thing is that the dog needs to learn to stretch when it jumps so it's not the height it's the width that you focus on and second I always teach the dog to come back this way which saves me a lot of points in trial if my dog knows to always come back over the jump to me it can't go around so I don't teach it separately that my exercise is not complete when I threw the dumbbell or the toy over that side my exercise is when complete when the dog returns so you will see how I do this but before we start I want to tell you what I'm using I'm not using the regular equipment that are used in trials because it's usually metal frames or wooden frames and dogs get hurt and plus I can't carry it around so what I do is that I buy the poles for the electric fence you can buy it in any home improvement stores and I use PVC pipe you need to cut the pipe about five feet long two tubes so overall I need four of those and two five meter five feet long PVC pipes and here's how my setup works you can see behind so you can see my setup I have two jumps they're spread a little bit they're not too high this is our first time doing this and so I want to make sure my dog understands and just focus on jumping over and back immediately so this is very important so the dog learns to just jump over that's why it's not spread too far apart because we just started I need him to know not to step over it and not to do one at a time but do over over both of them and then grab the toy and always come back to me this is what we focus on at the beginning let's try come on I know as you can see he was trying to go around it returning and I gave him harsh command no so he knows this is not allowed this is very bad and then as he returns I tagged with him a little bit so he knows this is what we want to then we're gonna try again I know jump I know lots so again since it's our very first time I'm not as concerned about him stretching I'm more concerned about him figuring out that I want him to go over and back that's the main thing and then once he gets this we'll try a couple of times then I'll be able to start separating the poles a little bit further away so forcing him to kind of stretch more and more and then as we have that we can raise it a little bit higher but overall I do not train over one meter jump in my preparation for any trials or anything it just it's always the two of them and further apart so he knows how to stretch because in training for competitions we do make our dogs jump a lot and it's a lot of pressure on their joints and I don't want that on my dog and I never had issues with my dogs jumping over in the trials so to spare the dogs joints and keep it easy simple and fun for them I recommend using two jumps and keep it fun for dogs so they can enjoy this as much as you do happy training