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Alaska's Great Race - Mushing Lingo

Alaska's Great Race - Mushing Lingo

Alaska's Great Race - Mushing Lingo - (01:26)

What does a dog team do if you yell mush? Well, nothing it turns out. Kasey Dee Gardner learns the real commands mushers use on the trail. Iditarod : Alaska's Great Race

  • Added: 18-Dec-2008
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" As you're driving you're saying all these different terms, can you just go through a couple like what they mean?"

" Straight is obvious, G means to the right, paw means left. Whoa. Easy. If you stop, and you want them to stay lined out"

" you'll say stay or stay ahead. That's really about all they need to know."

" And you don't say mush? No, that's a myth. --"

" And the other one we use all the time is all right but we don't say all right as they don't really understand English so it's more of a tone thing and so you say all right to be, it means to go with a bite to it, say like it's alright it's, it's more about sound than it is actually a word. -- Whoa, but you notice we're not really just jabbering at them all the time at least good musher’s don't. It's you don't have to be pestering to go, go, go or faster, faster you don't have to do that they set that's what they naturally do. And every now and then I'm touching the break to get the speed I like, but we don't have to bug them to go. That's, they like to run down a trail like labs like to chase balls in the lake."

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