Michael and Natalie will discuss the theory behind using games in nose work and showcase some of their favorite games. They will explain how to design your own games to effectively incentivize the learning you want to achieve, whether for yourself or your students.
Key Points:
- Understanding Games and Game Theory has huge benefits for nose work training
- Games enable people to learn faster than many other methods
- Games help people develop rhythm, balance, timing, and feel.
- Games allow us to mimic competition stress in a safe environment
- We are looking to optimize stress. It’s not as simple as just reducing it.
- As instructors (of others) and trainers (of our own dogs), we can use the incentive structures we build into games to get a variety of valuable results
Group games vs solo games
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Sunday
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