| I'm sure your trainer has a tape recorded that does nothing but repeat "LOOSE LEAD! LOOSE LEAD!" throughout the class :)
There's a reason for that. It's called "opposition reflex". The harder YOU pull back; the harder the DOG pulls forward.
Breaking the opposition reflex is the key to breaking the pull cycle.
Normally a dog on a flat collar or choke chain will continue to pull; pulling through the "correction" if the handler has failed to pay proper attention to opposition reflex in the imprinting stage of training.
You can break this by NOT pulling the dog back; but by changing your direction. Remember; corrections given are supposed to be a sharp "pop and release". I'd rather see handlers assume the "tree" position (just stand there) and let the dog get a wake up call when they hit the end of the lead a couple of times.
I personally like prong collars for this exercise; given the dog is old enough and proper foundation has be layed for the dog.
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