Training

Our training begins with the very young dogs.
That means for Silvia, my wife to go for a walk and a playful puppy to prepare for future use.
Now we look forward to the muscle, the importance of this is the correct feeding.
In winter we put on a short trail for Puppies and let them run free on the snowmobile.
So as soon as possible, we create a positive image of the things we expect from them later.
This’ high expectations of us are, the dogs do not even feel as a burden but as a reward.
So we try our puppies give a lead, which they can later put in outstanding performances.
build the trust that the dogs in this life to us is the single most important prerequisite for being able to win races and this motivation also for a long time to hold.

I train after I used up a lot of training car, preferably with a quad. Here I particularly value the control that I have on my team. The dogs immediately sense when I work on the back and so I can enforce my commands at best, mainly the stopping. The possibility of influence of speed is made by quad best. I drive almost always without the motor and let the dogs pull. For that I need 8-12 dogs biased, the two people and move 240 kg
Very important at the beginning of the training season is the basis for building the dogs. This should be value placed on them are not even to demand so strong, but take the fun and joy to the first kilometer in attack.
We start with 4 km and keep them in for about 1 month and about 17 runs. The weather is just the beginning of September is an important criterion for the stress that I choose.
If it is warmer and the humidity is high, I put one or two breaks to make it ausschnaufen. If it is cold, I drive through the route. I then do so if the distance is longer.
I try to at least four training sessions a week to come.
Next I have a range of over 6 km, passing through a forest soft passage.
Here the dogs have to draw very strong. I see this mostly for the first time who is already fit and who still needs more time.
After the heavy piece and I am going a little faster h. home with about 25 km /
This trip I am going for so long until I see that the dogs want to run faster and finish are no longer hard.

Only now beginning to my real training.
The dogs now have a basis to build on as I can.
Now I am going distances 8-11 km in length.

Now I get to my top bid in the training. All training should first have its target.
Therefore it is necessary to see what the dogs do next.
The training of today caused the goal of tomorrow.

In this phase of the training I want
the force structure to promote
increase endurance
the Leader make kommandosicher

The dogs do when I Fit, not knowing what to expect.
This is replaced by the motivation and stimulates their interest, it should not pay too much routine.
I stop sometimes, change the speed by I release the brake more or less, going different routes.
The leader never know when they come to a fork where we go, my command determines the direction. I sometimes really different every time and if it is just left around.
No fear of such incidents

* Free dogs
* Joggers
* Cars
* Complications

All kinds of problems should be welcome.
Many will now say “nonsense”, we are glad if we have any problems.
I can understand that.
These things may be stressed by me as well.

But you can be safe only by overcoming problems.
The dogs will also learn from the experience and react in stressful situations better and better.

So always try to learn from mistakes and give the dogs the next time a positive experience.
Many situations will lose more dramatic and are simply checked off.
The dogs then have more fun and will then run much faster because they feel safe.

I’ve done in previous seasons the experience that it does no good to the dogs to run wide on hard paths without snow.
So for me race between 27 km in Europe and 35-45 km in Alaska.

So I’m going home only a few times 12oder 14 km required.
The snow training is in addition to the basic training the most important. I know not every musher has the opportunity to complete an extensive snow training. But the burden on hard paths is for the dogs, especially to the musculoskeletal system, much harder and I think that 10 km correspond to a hard surface about 17 kilometers of snow.

You should also never ask for too much in training, the dogs have to do anything much. If loss of motivation can be seen, one must first think, why? Too hot, too long, too much stress in kennels, poor feeding, injury, exhausted? There is an explanation for everything and a solution if you detect the error. That is what we have to learn musher to continue to improve.
Not the ambition of the Mushers must be the training goal, but the fun of the dogs and prepare them for their tasks perfectly.

It is important to take time, dear 1 km to train less but it let the dogs run free and good times even superior to what any dog has shown today. The store should think and what you do more of it.

One is in the race just as fast as the slowest dog. There is no point to push a handful of super dogs in the team ever, if one or two already hanging on the ropes. These dogs need to build and move forward to make it better then ever. If the difference in performance of the dogs is too large, you should be honest enough to recognize himself, and that individuals might not fit into the team. Maybe he just needs time in a smaller or slower team to develop. For a good dog it is always a sensible place. A bad racing dog is possibly a super-private dog for an amateur athlete or the family. There is no bad dog, you have to ask him just the right job.

Wrong kennel stress management or in the kennel are often reasons for power shortage.

Conclusion:

You should never, in everything they do with their dogs, lose the shine and the fire in the eyes of their friends, either in training or in the race. Only when the dogs are happy, they give everything and only then can a harmonious team will dream with a feeling of life from which all Huskies athletes.