Chapter 69: Off the beaten path

How high can a dog jump?

According to the records, the world record for high jump set by a dog is 68 inches (about 1.7272 meters), which was set in October 2006 by a dog named Cinderella at the national finals of the Dog High Jump Challenge.

Of course, this height refers to the height of the pole.

In the Frisbee Dog World Championship, one of the most famous champion dogs has jumped from flat ground to a height of more than 2.6 meters in the competition many times.

If you jump with strength, the dog can jump to a higher height.

In the training of police dogs and military dogs, most dogs can easily climb over vertical obstacle walls of more than 4 meters.

Therefore, it is really possible to jump off the wall in a dog hurry.

But why can a dog jump off the wall in a hurry?

It turns out that animal somatic cells store a high-energy compound called adenoside triphosphate (ATP), which is mainly derived from the three major nutrients in food: sugar, fat and protein.

In normal times, except for a part of ATP to maintain body temperature and daily activities, the rest is stored in cells in the form of chemical energy for emergency use.

When needed, ATP can be converted to adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which releases a huge amount of energy. At this time, chemical energy is converted into mechanical energy (muscle contraction), light energy (such as fireflies), electrical energy (such as electric eels and various bioelectric energy), sound energy (such as insect chirping, bird chirping), and so on.

The ability of dogs to convert this mechanical energy is particularly strong.

When it is in distress, under the instructions of the brain, ATP is quickly converted and broken down into ADP, releasing a huge amount of energy. The dog's muscles receive the energy provided by ADP, which will produce an extraordinary explosive force, causing the muscles to contract violently, prompting the movement of bones and joints, and the dog can "jump over the wall".

What Yang Mu has to do now is to exercise this ability to convert ATP into mechanical energy.

That is, the ability to jump.

Jumping is really important for a frisbee dog.

In the distance race, no matter how good the dog leader is, he can't guarantee that every frisbee he throws out can be flat and stable, so the dog has the ability to jump high and bite the plate in a fast run, which can not only greatly improve the success rate of the bite, but also get extra points because the limbs are off the ground to bite the plate.

In freestyle competition, jumping and jumping with strength are essential abilities, and the higher you jump, the more difficult you can do, and the higher the equal score.

For the sake of his Frisbee dog and agile dog dreams, Yang Mu went out.

Jumping training is both a technical and a hard job.

The reason why it is said to be a technical job is because practicing jumping high is one thing, and how to land smoothly is another.

Like human movement, jumping actually has a great impact on a dog's bones.

If you don't land well, it is easy to cause fractures, joint wear, etc., and if you exercise too much, it is easy to cause permanent damage to the bones, so Yang Mu can only try to increase the difficulty little by little, and increase the amount little by little.

Soon, another spectacle appeared in the Lijing Garden Community: Lao Hei was taking an unusual path.

Yang Mu is indeed taking the unusual path.

Walking on the road, as long as he sees a chair on the side of the road, he will suddenly jump up from one end of the chair, borrow strength from the chair, and jump down from the other end, drawing a beautiful "M" shape in the air.

If the chair had a backrest, it would probably have landed not on the surface of the chair, but on the back of the chair, and then landed smoothly with the rebound of the back.

At this point, his trajectory is drawn in an oblique inverted "V" shaped folded line.

If he suddenly sees a wall while traveling, he will immediately rush up the wall.

After going up the wall, sometimes there is a 180-degree air turnback, sometimes it rushes up to the wall one or two meters high, and then a 360-degree backflip lands smoothly.

As for the guardrails, green belts, pool walls, etc., in the community, they were either used as hurdle obstacles or became his parkour routes.

That's right, he's like a parkour dog now, who loves parkour.

For his unusual path, Mi Li thought he had a rabies attack at first, but then slowly realized that he was practicing, and slowly became accustomed to it.

As for the other people passing by in the community, as soon as they see Lao Hei, they will definitely follow him for a distance and watch him parkour.

In a sense, Yang Mu's parkour is much more exciting than human parkour, because a dog surpasses normal humans in terms of jumping ability, flexibility, balance and other aspects.

For this point, Yang Mu himself has personal experience.

For example, when he was a human being, he didn't dare to jump up easily when he encountered the kind of steps that were more than one meter high, but now as a dog, he can easily jump up.

It's like a front flip, a backflip, a mid-air turn, a twist and other difficult movements, but when he was a human being, even after being trained by a professional gymnastics coach, he might not be able to do it, but now after becoming a dog, he can easily do it after a certain amount of practice.

He discovered that dogs, no matter what posture they jump in the air, have an instinct to writhe themselves on all fours through various twists.

At this point, dogs and cats are the same.

A large number of such exercises are fruitful.

At the very least, after more than a week of practice, the one-meter-high obstacle is no longer an obstacle for him, and he can jump higher if he is on the grass without worrying about damage to his bones.

And when he practiced frisbee with Mi Li and Lao Wu Tou on the grass, he could already easily jump up and bite the frisbee more than two meters high without borrowing strength.

Yang Mu believes that as long as he is given a little more time, the height of two meters and six meters in the air will not become a difficult thing for him.

He regretted that whether it was Lao Wutou or Mi Li, they only knew how to throw the frisbee far away or high, let themselves chase, jump, and bite, and did not know how to use their bodies as obstacles for themselves and as a point of strength to play fancy frisbee.

In this regard, Yang Mu can only be anxious.

It seems that if he wants to participate in the frisbee dog and agility dog competitions, he will have to wait for another opportunity, or create an opportunity himself.

In the process of his unconventional path, the man's training has finally made some progress.

At the very least, it is more regular to follow Yang Mu now, and it will not dare to tear up the house in Yang Mu's house, and it will not drag the dog leash when it goes out.

For some ordinary sit-to-stand walking commands, it has slowly formed a conditioned reflex and began to listen to the commands.

The biggest progress is in the travel with Li Changjiang.

Even if Yang Mu was not there, it would no longer drag Li Changjiang to run.

Li Changjiang is very satisfied with this progress.

However, he also has dissatisfaction, that is, when the man returns home, he still tears up the house at every opportunity, as long as it is out of Li Changjiang's sight, it may tear up anything it can see.

In this regard, Li Changjiang once asked Mi Li to go to his house to help train, but Mi Li refused, and her reason was to take the prince to participate in the competition first.

That's right, the all-breed competition is coming soon, and there are only about ten days left.