| Leader,
Several of the members of my Ring club have ties or have been trained in France. The whip is used, but the rattle stick is much more common. You would generally use the whip to:
1) Simulate gunfire. Not as loud as a .22, so you can start with the pop and also do many more of them. It also puts a lot of presure on. You can pop the whip far closer to the dog than shooting blanks upward without hurting your dog.
2) Put lots of defence on a dog. The whip is more of a threat than the stick. Further out from the decoy to. Great test of nerves. Lots of presure, especially for a weak nerve dog.
3) Test the nerves and courge of the dog.
There are more reseason, but I can not address them as I am very much still learning and others can answer them much more thoroulghy than I could.
The whip comes out maybe one in three training sessions, and then only for short periods of time.
Hope this helps. |