Dog Agility Training: The Front Cross

Video Transcript

"The next thing we're going to do is what's called a front cross. A front cross is a handling skill. And the way it's going to look is you're going to send the dog through an obstacle and then bring them around so that they're crossing in front of you. The way this would look with an obstacle is, big jump, tire, tunnel. Here's your front cross, you switch hands and tire. Good boy! You bring him back to you. The front cross came here where we were changing his sense of direction to send him to an obstacle in his path. I'll show you again how that works. Jake, come. You get him over an obstacle, through another one, to the next one. Cross here, switch hands. Bring him through. You dork. Now do it from the get go. You start from the first one, to the second one. Your front cross with your switch of hands. And tire. Good boy. That's what you call a front cross. It's a matter of your dog going from one direction, you're taking first hand and switching his path so that he learns to go and follow the next arm. It's just here to here you're changing your foot work and your hand position."