Dancing with my dog

This week in Blaster's class we worked on the turn(swing) meaning we want the dog to turn away from us. Susan Garrett describes it well in her blog at http://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/08/swinging-with-the-dog.html

because we never want the dog to break the plane of our shoulders we must turn our shoulders into the dog dropping the inside shoulder. I've decided I like the word swing better then turn with all the t words we are using so far my tongue is getting tied it might make it easier for blaster to hear the difference. We also worked on Get Out, and I don't me get out of the kitchen or get out from under my feet which i also use. Get Out meaning move further laterally away from me on a parallel line. We need to extend our arm and have our shoulders facing the dog, the article in dog sport described it as drawing a crayon line on the path we want the dog to take. The other thing we worked on was Go, meaning go ahead of us and take the obstacles in a straight line, with this we just kept throwing the toy under arm and saying go until the dog started anticipating the go and looked forward. Then you step it up by putting the toy in the other arm, swing arm, say go, when he looks forward toss the toy.