Loose lead walking exercises

We talked yesterday about the importance of slowing things down. Here's an example of ot in practice.
Piper is 9 months old. She's been with her humans for 7 months. Remember, 9 months planetary experience. She'll take time to learn new skills (being strangled on a slip lead for pulling isn't skill based learning, no punitive training is).
We are using the bike rack to teach the human and canine sides of the partnership
how to move well together
to predict movement
to balance bodies both individually and in relation to each other
to know where feet and legs are
to know the space each and the other occupies
to move as fluidly as they can (it should feel like dancing, like flow)
to know where the lead is in relation to feet, arms, legs, hips, and faces
to move without pulling (both the dog a.d human)
And so much more.
Slowing down, thinking, predicting, trying to remain as relaxed as possible and balanced at the same time. When our dogs pull, we tend to tense up and start pulling back. This tension them has the capacity to off balance us, which then makes us tense more. Relax your arms, move from your hips.
As Bruce Lee said, "Be like water, my friend."
Our Triangle of Trust package fully breaks down these concepts of loose lead walking.
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[@jam7972]

I'm learning so much from your course, and it's working so fast for our new adopted shelter 8 month old with dog reactivity on leash. I'm having fun seeing him develop skills to 'triggers' and I can be essentially 'hands off!'. It would be so easy to get frustrated with this exercise if a 'balanced' method was being used (which unfortunately I once believed in). Here the human learns to remain CALM and patient/respectful to dog. The human doesn't have to enage physically or verbally to force LEARNING (i.e. applying corrections over and over and over to obtain compliance...all that crazy unhealthy BS). The dog isn't PURPOSELY ignoring the human, it's processing everything!

[@GlasgowDogTrainer]

thank you!