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Don't heel grind
86 videos indexed under this topic. Topic tags help you find relevant sessions; they do not mean the entire recording teaches this one idea.
Heel is a tool you pick up to get past something and then put down - not a way to walk - because holding a dog in it for a whole walk frustrates him, and the trainers warn that, in more extreme cases, a frustrated nervous dog can bite.
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Coco's First In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-09-11 | 15:19
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Hidden help; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsKodak's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-06 | 09:48
A long walk-and-play session, mid-program, that doubles as the clearest statement in this set of what the trainer is actually trying to buy for Kodak.
Session summaryRocko's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-08 | 21:02
A deliberately light session: a walk through downtown Angier with Rocko, letting him sniff, practising things he already knows, and working on the one thing the trainer wants better, which is the heel.
Session summaryDolce 1st In-Program Owner Lesson | Full Session | 2026-07-28 | 13:03
The first owner lesson of Dolce's in-program board-and-train, delivered as a walking briefing.
Session summaryBun's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-08-28 | 15:18
Topics: Control is not obedience; Internal emotional change, not repression; Freedom is given in measured steps.
concept tagsBandit's Training Session | Full Session | 2026-09-03 | 14:11
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward.
concept tagsWhy Your Dog Needs Breaks During a Training Walk
A short titled piece rather than a session, and on the audio a Rocko-only one: Rocko is the only dog named and Kodak is never mentioned.
Session summary3 Rules for a Better Public Training Walk | Dulce's Full Session
A public-access obedience walk at Downtown Cary Park, published with a teaching title.
Session summaryCan Bun Stay Calm While the Trail Gets Busier? | Full Session
Topics: Control is not obedience; Internal emotional change, not repression; Freedom is given in measured steps.
concept tagsHow to Train Around Distractions Without Micromanaging Your Dog
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Start with freedom.
concept tagsCan Rocko Ignore Another Dog? | Full Recall & Heel Session
Training footage: Rocko. Also discussed: Kodak and their shared training plan.
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; He has to be allowed to get it wrong; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsLuna Knew Place—But Would It Hold in the Real House?
Topics: Reading the dog; The leash is a prop; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsKing | From Safety Line to Family-Led Freedom
The last working session before King goes home, and by the end it turns into the owner lesson itself.
Session summaryKing | His Son Gave the Command — Then His Owner Took the Walk
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The three stress reducers; 'Let's go' is not 'Come' - and the recall has an ending.
concept tagsDolce Training At Beautiful Downtown Cary Park!
The base cut of the Downtown Cary Park walk; x-lkgnxC6PE is the same session republished with a teaching title and a teaser on the front.
Session summaryZeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsKing & Zuri Chan Training Session at the Stone Houses
A short evening outing with King and Zuri Chan walking together, filmed as content as much as worked as a session.
Session summaryLuna First In-Program Lesson Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsZeus Training Session On Hillsborough Street In Downtown Raleigh
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Don't heel grind; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsKing 2nd In-Program Lesson
The pivot point of King's program, and the one session where the whole case is stated out loud.
Session summaryZeus Training Session
A long, hot, almost silent walk on a greenway, and the note is thin because the session is.
Session summaryKing Downtown Training Session
A short downtown walk worked as an obedience outing rather than a teaching session.
Session summaryFinn 🦌 Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: Teach the move, then the word; Build the handler's timing while it is easy; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsDutchess Go-Home Lesson Part 2
The second and substantive part of Dutchess's handover.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A long, deliberately unhurried walk at a park the trainer has not used before, run as maintenance plus two specific projects.
Session summaryFinn Fully Off-Leash Again!
Finn worked off-leash in the open for twenty-three minutes, and the transcript's value is almost entirely in what the environment throws at him rather than in anything the handler says.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A maintenance walk, stated as such at the top: the trainer says King has mostly been doing protection work lately, so this session exists to check the rest of his commands are still there and to sharpen heel, which he names in advance as King's weak point.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
A working park walk with no narration to speak of.
Session summaryDeuce Go-Home Lesson Part 2
Topics: Don't heel grind; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsZeus Training Session
A short flexi walk that exists to introduce the heel, and the only place in this reader's set where the trainer lays out his teaching model for a skill as a numbered process before using it.
Session summaryDutchess Training Session
Topics: The leash is a prop; Internal emotional change, not repression; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsArchie Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsLola Training Session
Topics: Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; False reps: the dog reads the chain, not the word.
concept tagsDutchess Training Session Part 2
The back half of the park outing, and the part that contains its result.
Session summaryDolce — Sleeve
Short but one of the most useful clips in the Dolce set, because it states the criterion and the contingency for sleeve work.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
Short, late-program, and mostly consolidation.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
Three minutes cut out of a longer heel session.
Session summaryArchie & Lola First In-Program Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Control is not obedience.
concept tagsDeuce In-Program Lesson #2 Part 2
The back half of the second owner lesson, and where the visit stops being a curriculum and becomes a handover.
Session summaryRoxy Field Trip To Michaels
Topics: The leash is a prop; Pick the place for what it contains - life is the training ground; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsRoxy Training Session
This recording focuses on heel practice, with come, down, release cues and praise between walking sequences.
Session summaryRamsey Off-Leash + Heel Training Session Part 1
Ramsey is worked individually on heel, recall, down and ranging distance.
Session summaryLola Training Session
A short outdoor working session, one day after OPVo9Qfkt38, and the first file in this set where the handler explains anything.
Session summaryLola Training Session Part 1
Lola's first outing with this trainer, and by his count only her second or third time off the property.
Session summaryArchie Training Session
Twelve minutes of a trainer working Archie alone, off in a field, with the camera running and almost nothing said to it.
Session summaryLola Training Session
Lola's second session, and the one that establishes the emotional frame the rest of her program runs on.
Session summaryFinn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
The best methodological session in Deuce's batch, and the only one that shows two handlers thinking out loud together.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
A long park walk intersperses heel, sit, down and place practice with releases and exploration.
Session summaryKing Training Session
A routine working session, two weeks after the first park trip.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
The most methodologically explicit of Roxy's solo sessions.
Session summarySage Pre-Gaming In-Program Lesson #1!
A sparsely narrated park recording on a hot day, titled as preparation for Sage's first in-program lesson.
Session summaryDeuce Training Session
An early session, and the only one in this batch that shows the foundation being laid rather than being handed over.
Session summaryDolce Training Session
Two and a quarter minutes of audible working and then silence.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsLouie Training Session
A short, light session in the training yard: pool, ball, some recall reps on a shortened tab leash, and a down.
Session summaryKing Training Session
King's first time out in public, at a park, on what is his third recorded session.
Session summaryRoxy Training Session
The handler describes teaching the sit movement with leash guidance before adding the spoken cue.
Session summarySage Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; Don't heel grind; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsLouie, Heel Focused Session
Topics: The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Don't heel grind; Hidden help.
concept tagsBullet - Walk Training w/Zuri & Gemma! Great Helpers!
A long evening walk at a park with two handlers and two dogs, which looks casual and is doing three deliberate things.
Session summaryBullet - Training Walkies!
Ten minutes of quiet handling with the camera running and nothing explained.
Session summaryBullet - Training Walkies Part 2!
A thirty-four minute trail walk that turns into the most useful diagnostic in Bullet's footage.
Session summaryBullet — Proofing Heels ft Angier K9
An ordinary morning walk that the trainer says up front will have a little training in it along the way, and that is exactly what it is.
Session summaryMax's Go Home Lesson Part 2!
Topics: Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Don't heel grind; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsTraining Sesh w/The Legend: BULLET!
A short, affectionate, single-purpose session.
Session summaryTraining Sesh With Bullet!
The third take of day six, recorded right after the tug breakthrough in the previous take, and the video where the trainer says what the breakthrough is worth.
Session summaryWorking Heel, Play, Etc, with Bullet At Angier K9! (Sorry for the Audio Issues!)
A daily play session at the facility that doubles as the channel's explainer on heel.
Session summaryAkira #1 — In Person Evaluation with Angier K9!
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsRocky — In Program Lesson #3
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsAstro — Update Evaluation #2
Topics: Don't heel grind; Assess before you ask.
concept tagsZeus — In-Program Lesson #1
An owner lesson given on a walk in a park, about a week before the dog goes home, by a trainer who is not the trainer of the August lesson.
Session summaryApollo — Go Home Lesson!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The leash is a prop; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsLooking Dapper with Bo!
Twenty-one minutes of planned solo work, and the most instructional of Bo's sessions.
Session summaryApollo — Heel Work and Play!
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsBubba [family name withheld] — Go Home Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind; The leash is a prop.
concept tagsDrago—Go Home Lesson
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; The four windows, and calm liberty; Reading the dog.
concept tagsGo-Home Instructional Video w/Drago! Pt 1
Topics: The four windows, and calm liberty; Don't heel grind; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsBo — Full Go Home Lesson With Client!
The handover, and the single densest piece of teaching in Bo's file.
Session summaryOscar! — Full Go Home Lesson With Client! 👨🎓🐶😭
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.
concept tagsBo — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 11!
Mostly narration over brief footage: the trainer describes Bo checking out nearby people on a long line and moving on without an obedience cue, then explains why dogs need choices and how to respond when a choice goes wrong.
Session summaryBo—Public Access Training Pt. 4
A four-minute segment with three small things in it.
Session summaryBo — Public Training/Heels
Bo works on heel in public, and it is still a struggle here. The trainer accepts a single pace match, tests down on a new surface with less leash help, and skips another down to let Bo decompress after the harder heel work.
Session summarySputnik, Astra & Bear— Go-Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsMarvin — Go Home Lesson Pt. 1 (ft Shadow)
Topics: The leash is a prop; Don't heel grind; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission.
concept tagsMarvin — Go-Home Lesson Pt. 2 (ft Shadow)
Topics: Two events, not one - and what the handler does in between; Don't heel grind; Hidden help.
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