So what are the elemental skills required to train and play treibball? Here is a brief summary:

Trainer skills include:

• Cooperative working relationship with your dog
• Positive reinforcement methodology
• Good mechanics, clicker skills
• Shaping, Targeting, Backchaining.

Dog Skills, Basic obedience:

• Recall
• Wait/stay
• Sit, down
• Heel position, right and left

More advanced obedience/distance  skills needed:

• Send away/go out, to 35 feet and more
• Distance wait, down, sit
• Directionals- facing handler, and going away from handler
• Walk up/on and wait

Specific Treibball skills:

• Push ball- on cue, with good form and speed
• Ball control
• Ball selection on cue- back away, walk up, right, left, go on/out

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