 Today we continue working on an attentive healing, attentive focus of competition healing for IGP Shutsun sport. Session number two I want my dog to be more focused and keep the focus much longer just so you understand what I how I divide the healing exercise in general. If you think about it in the healing exercise we want the dog to do so many different things one is to look at us all the time be focused attentive second the dog needs to know the position where the front aligns with with your leg right so that's one position another position the dog is long it has also rear so the rear should stick out too much or be too close to you so he needs to also understand where to keep the rear how to control it and of course the dog needs to move along with you not too fast not too slow and then the dog needs to know to sit for the basic position when you stop so there's so many exercises that we need to teach the dog but all of it crumbles if the dog doesn't keep focus if the dog can be attentive enough to perform this exercise for that reason I do not feed my dog into the position I teach my dog to focus first and after that then I gradually progress but if I don't have the focus of the dog the rest doesn't to me it doesn't matter because once the focus is gone the whole position is gone and attention of the dog is gone so you have no kind of control needed for the competition that's the reason why I train the way I train that's the reason why I don't feed my dog into position I want my dog to learn every portion of the exercise and know it well and once the dog is ready then we progress so today you'll see I always have the flat color but mostly what's new today is that I have a leash on the choke chain and today if I he needs correction he will be corrected and so what I want to do today is that I want him to sit there wait for me and I encourage the dog but then sometimes I keep a pose because my goal is to make my dog sit next to me and stare at me for one minute without me saying anything so the dog needs to get to that point before I'm ready to move to the next level that's my target and I'll show you how we progress to this target and then after that you you keep practicing until you can have the dog for a minute looking at you okay let's start I have a stick cheese which is very convenient for that exercise because I'm simply just feeding the dog from my hand and it's not too sticky not too greasy and he likes it so it should be okay all right look very good look very good look very good look good look no look good very good good look I rewarded right away because when I moved my hand he kept looking at me look he's doing it very well good so he's now getting that he doesn't need to look at the hand but he has to look at me very good good look good look and now let's keep the pause good look very good good look one again good look good yes good that was very good good very good good boy so as you can see he holds it for about 15 seconds now and I'll progress the same way I always feed from the top the dog now knows not to look at the hand and I keep repeating command look I rarely use it once I would get to healing but at the beginning especially when we start moving with the dog forward helping him know that he shouldn't look down he should keep looking at you helps if you have this command look that's the only reason why I have it so it's kind of a transition command for me that I don't use for too long but it helps the dog and I hope you'll progress with your dogs soon and happy training