I don't think anyone is trying to claim they invented it. But its not just "distraction training." Distraction training is " ignore the thing and you will be rewarded." Reverse luring is "to get the thing you must give up the thing." At least for my dogs, that is an important distinction, because I have gotten different behavior between the two.
and like I said, it could be called that for training something like a "leave it". Avoid the food to get the food. I wouldn't, but maybe because i've been doing it that way forever and have never heard of "reverse luring" till yesterday and my old brain won't let me accept it has a new name
when I think of luring, I think of pulling a dog's nose, head, then body to the ground by making it follow a "lure" of food to the ground. "reverse luring" to me should say you've taught the dog to avoid your hand with food, so you place the hand above the head, then use that to "push" the dog to the ground. I'm guessing that's not what you do. I'd be any amount of money the dog is trained the behavior by a lure or some other method, then the food is brought out and they're to do the exercise focused on your or wherever the focus should be, and when it is, it's marked and rewarded. Marker training 101.
people have been using the reward as a distraction forever. it's one of the first things people do when the teach focused heeling, hold treat at the side of the head, get eye contact and reward with treat, been done forever, never heard it called "reverse luring" till yesterday.
Is it the open hand closed hand that makes it special? cause those have terms already too a bridge and NRM.
There's a reason there aren't "many youtube videos" on this and you don't find it in dog psych books.
I've trained with Scandinavian trainers, funny story about some from Finland at the worlds a couple years ago. We were asking where everyone was from and I said , WI. just as my friends started giving me ****, meaning I just should have told them the united states because they wouldn't know where WI is, he starts in his best "That 70's Show" impersonations and yells "HELLO WISCONSIN" and then tells us all he knows about WI and the Packers and Kelso
anyway, reverse luring never came up there either.
This all came up in relation to teaching a hold. If it's all about "to get the thing, you must give up the thing" then how do you use that to teach a hold? I say the dog knows the behavior, all you're doing is teaching new situations in which the behavior must still be done and rewarding for proper behavior.
anyway, I have to go work on a new formula. i've found a way to serve "liquid ice". I have to get this thing to market, it could literally be a life saver. In fact one could say it's necessary for one to survive. Watch for it, "liquid ice" will be coming to a store near you soon.