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Don't heel grind
87 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 say a frustrated nervous dog eventually bites somebody.
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Angier K9 | 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 tagsAngier K9 | Kodak'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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Rocko'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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dolce 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bun'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 tagsAngier K9 | Bandit'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 tagsAngier K9 | Why 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | 3 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Can 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 tagsAngier K9 | How to Train Around Distractions Without Micromanaging Your Dog
Topics: Internal emotional change, not repression; Control is not obedience; Start with freedom.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Can 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 tagsAngier K9 | Luna 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 tagsAngier K9 | King | 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | King | 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 tagsAngier K9 | Dolce 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Zeus Go-Home Lesson Part 1
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | King & 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Luna First In-Program Lesson Part 2
Topics: Hidden help; Meaningful release; Pressure, release, reward.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Zeus 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 tagsAngier K9 | King 2nd In-Program Lesson
The pivot point of King's program, and the one session where the whole case is stated out loud.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Zeus Training Session
A long, hot, almost silent walk on a greenway, and the note is thin because the session is.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | King Downtown Training Session
A short downtown walk worked as an obedience outing rather than a teaching session.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn 🦌 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 tagsAngier K9 | Dutchess Go-Home Lesson Part 2
The second and substantive part of Dutchess's handover.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | King Training Session
A long, deliberately unhurried walk at a park the trainer has not used before, run as maintenance plus two specific projects.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | King 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dolce Training Session
A working park walk with no narration to speak of.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Go-Home Lesson Part 2
Topics: Don't heel grind; Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Zeus 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dutchess Training Session
Topics: The leash is a prop; Internal emotional change, not repression; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Archie Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Lola 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dolce — Sleeve
Short but one of the most useful clips in the Dolce set, because it states the criterion and the contingency for sleeve work.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
Short, late-program, and mostly consolidation.
Tier 1 session summaryDeuce Training Session
Three minutes cut out of a longer heel session.
Tier 1 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 tagsAngier K9 | Deuce 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Ramsey Off-Leash + Heel Training Session Part 1
Ramsey is worked individually on heel, recall, down and ranging distance.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Lola Training Session
A short outdoor working session, one day after OPVo9Qfkt38, and the first file in this set where the handler explains anything.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Lola Training Session Part 1
Lola's first outing with this trainer, and by his count only her second or third time off the property.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Archie Training Session
Twelve minutes of a trainer working Archie alone, off in a field, with the camera running and almost nothing said to it.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Lola Training Session
Lola's second session, and the one that establishes the emotional frame the rest of her program runs on.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Finn Training Session
The densest ordinary session in Finn's set, and effectively a lecture delivered while working the dog.
Tier 1 session summaryDeuce Training Session
The best methodological session in Deuce's batch, and the only one that shows two handlers thinking out loud together.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy Training Session
A long park walk intersperses heel, sit, down and place practice with releases and exploration.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | King Training Session
A routine working session, two weeks after the first park trip.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy Training Session
The most methodologically explicit of Roxy's solo sessions.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Deuce Training Session
An early session, and the only one in this batch that shows the foundation being laid rather than being handed over.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Dolce Training Session
Two and a quarter minutes of audible working and then silence.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy Training Session
Topics: Assess before you ask; Freeze, flee or fight; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Louie Training Session
A short, light session in the training yard: pool, ball, some recall reps on a shortened tab leash, and a down.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | King Training Session
King's first time out in public, at a park, on what is his third recorded session.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Roxy Training Session
The handler describes teaching the sit movement with leash guidance before adding the spoken cue.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Sage Training Session
Topics: Start with freedom; Don't heel grind; The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Louie, Heel Focused Session
Topics: The three Ds, and the variables nobody counts; Don't heel grind; Hidden help.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bullet - 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bullet - Training Walkies!
Ten minutes of quiet handling with the camera running and nothing explained.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bullet - Training Walkies Part 2!
A thirty-four minute trail walk that turns into the most useful diagnostic in Bullet's footage.
Tier 1 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Max'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 tagsAngier K9 | Training Sesh w/The Legend: BULLET!
A short, affectionate, single-purpose session.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Training 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Working 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Akira #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 tagsAngier K9 | Rocky — In Program Lesson #3
Topics: Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; The dog tells you the reward; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Astro — 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.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Apollo — Go Home Lesson!
Topics: Control is not obedience; The leash is a prop; Don't heel grind.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Looking Dapper with Bo!
Twenty-one minutes of planned solo work, and the most instructional of Bo's sessions.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Apollo — 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 tagsAngier K9 | Drago—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.
Tier 1 session summaryOscar! — Full Go Home Lesson With Client! 👨🎓🐶😭
Topics: The dog tells you the reward; Hidden help; The four windows, and calm liberty.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Bo — Focus Training/Heels/Recalls 11! #dogtrainer #dogtraining #shorts #dog #dogshorts
A four-minute published clip that is really a lecture.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bo—Public Access Training Pt. 4
A four-minute segment with three small things in it.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Bo — Public Training/Heels
The first heel work in Bo's published footage, done in public and mostly unsuccessfully, and a note that is really about criteria.
Tier 1 session summaryAngier K9 | Gunny & Luna — Go Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Hidden help; Honest limits, and reliability is not permission; Eating the correction, and avoidance as a tactic.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Sputnik, Astra & Bear— Go-Home Lesson Pt. 1
Topics: Pressure, release, reward; The dog tells you the reward; Reading the dog.
concept tagsAngier K9 | Marvin — 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 tagsAngier K9 | Marvin — 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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