I did pretty much the same thing Mike did to teach "bang". In my opinion, you have to start with "roll over" and with both of ours we just started gently rolling them over from a "down" position. Once they get the hang of that, we introduced "Bang", and just stopped them on their side instead of rolling all the way over. It's funny though-if Emma is really eager to get treats, she will do "bang" but get up right away, so I can't really tell the difference between that and roll over. Even if she just rolls over, it's a cute party trick