You were too worried about the physical feeling of punch in the face instead of listening to the word purple. If I where to punch you in the face and say purple at the same time, and repeat this process three times, the fourth time that I say purple without punching you in the face you're gonna have no idea what's going to happen next because you never had time to process the purple man punch in the face. When teaching your dog sit, down anything, before you offer a hand signal, you must say the word for your dog to understand. Humans lack the ability to separate word from hand sign. Hand signals can only be done in one of those scenarios. Your verbal cue needs to be strong because you are going to rely on this in almost all scenarios, whether your dog is looking at you or not, whether your hands are full or not, or whether you are looking at your dog or not. Do you I think I’m going to have a hard time getting my dog to listen if I have their 100 percent attention? No. Hand signals are only reliable when your dog is looking at you.However, I do immediately get away from using the hand signal when I feel like the dog has an understanding of the word. I know they do! I know they learn faster through using hand signals (also understand them when teaching all behaviors we lure with our hand, and develop a hand signal with every command. I always get push back from owners on, but my dog listens really well to the hand signal. There is a few reasons why I hate using hand signals in dog training, and I’m going to go over the biggest two. Do you want to know why I hate hand signals?
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