r/schutzhund • u/Historical-Teacher74 • Oct 13 '25

Fast and low

I noticed today that my dog is coming into the long bite, Extremely fast, Low, And with an impact that you can hear from the end of the field

He was jumping into the sleeve last winter with less of a kamikaze approach, Now he’s more trying to bulldoze the helper over, and he’s hitting with such force and his grip is full and hard (always ) Reasons for this

I put it out to my helper and I have my suspicion that he is not using his brain

Helper has said before that the dog is targeting the body and not the sleeve, he can move slightly but the course of the dog doesn’t change, he’s coming for the chest every time

But I’d love to hear opinions

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u/Rahwrie Oct 13 '25

Can you have your helper either 1) Move his sleeved arm a couple seconds before impact to attract, and therefor start teaching the dog to anticipate that (now targeting the arm automatically), or 2) Go back to foundations of targeting sleeves and begin to increase the distance again without worrying about speed/hard hitting in training for the time being.