 dumbbells. In this series of videos I'm gonna show you how I teach my dog to work with the dumbbells and so if you're thinking about jumps and everything, how I teach my dog to properly jump is a separate series of videos. In this series it will be only about the dumbbells, how the dog supposed to hold it, how to pick them up, how to bring hay enough. And so very first step is to teach the dog to hold it properly because the dog cannot chew or all the dumbbell you lose points in a trial for that and so what I usually use is my favorite PVC pipe is the first to to start working with this. The reason being is that any other toy my dog knows to chew and so if I give the dog anything that they already know they will be chewing on it and rolling in their mouth and it's very difficult to stop the dog doing this with the toy that they used to and for that reason I introduce something new and something that is not too pleasant to chew so the dog knows how to deal with it at first. So this is very very first step and then we eventually obviously progress to other things but today and for the next several sessions all we'll be doing is that he needs to learn the command hold to hold the pipe and he needs to hold it calmly without chewing without rolling without any anxiety and he needs to actually know to take it in his mouth when I say hold. So today is very first time we've never tried this before so I don't know how it's going to to go but I have high rewards which are treats they're little smoked hot dogs that he likes and I also have a toy reward so occasionally I'll be rewarding with the toy but I do it with food because and high reward food because I do want the dog to want the reward but not to have a drive so he's running around excited too excited I want him to focus on what he needs to learn okay why don't you sit very good okay I'll let him sniff it first because he've never done this and then I gently place so I'm gonna hold one piece of reward and I gently place it in his mouth he doesn't want to do that so you still kind of forcing him to do that wait wait yes very good very good he knows command wait and so I'm kind of guiding him to to say that's okay to have it for a second and I don't force him to hold it for too long try again wait wait wait wait hold yes very good good boy good boy again wait hold wait hold no good yes I do hold his mouth because I don't want him to play with it as you can see he's trying to roll it and roll it that's natural for him hold this I have a food in my hand no you have to hold this first you have to hold this wait yes very good good boy I want to make sure I'm not rewarding when he's rolling that's why I do it for a very short period of time and if I see that he's losing interest I'm gonna switch to a higher rewards next time he does it I'm gonna reward him with the toy because I already see that he's distracted why don't you sit sit hold yes very good so I'm giving him a break come on come on I want to make sure he likes the exercise I good boy okay so we raise the excitement now we're back to the treats hold good hold yes very good good boy good boy good hold no wait good yes very good he's getting there you can see that he's not he's willing to open his mouth now and hold it hold it hold it hold it hold good hold very good yeah very good good boy I want him to actually take it from me good hold yes very good good boy once more and then I'll reward with the toy good hold hold wait no no wait you have to hold it very good yes very good good boy run a little bit come on if you can see his wagon his tail so I want to make sure he likes the exercise I don't want him to be too forced because then it's a problem and dumbles are important for part of the trial in the competition hold good wait yes very good very good yeah very good good hold hold hold hold hold yes very good hold good boy good boy I still need to help him to get it in his mouth but less and less than it was at the beginning hold good no he almost got it in his mouth he was willing to open the mouth that's very good good progress you have to hold it come on wait hold hold no hold hold good hold yeah very good good boy good boy come on hold good yes very good good boy let's see if he's gonna hold it hold no hold hold good yes very good so he opened the mouse now by himself I just had to hold him on the top hold good yes very good very good very good yay good boy good boy give it to me come on good boy sit good boy hold hold good yes very good yes very good he does it now very good hold hold yes very good I'll finish at that very good finish I think that's pretty good for the first time good boy happy training