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Originally Posted by lblax  rotty or mal there is training differences and dog differences but the concept stays the same you would have a mal overloaded also. believe it or not the front with the dumbbell and dumbbell work in general is stressful work. before dumbbell work the bite work and obedience must be strong and almost complete especially if you end up doing the forced retrieve . are you actually in a club environment where as you pay yearly dues or are you paying these guys for training on a session basis??? |
I paid $300 bucks to join up with a local club. They have one official meeting per week. We have a great national trial helper in that group but last week I was told that all young dogs were to be worked by the helper that has virtually no experience.
The other guys I train with are just training buddies. Only two of us haven't titled dog but the others guys have titled many dogs to a national level. We are all on the same page using the balabanov method for OB. I get tons of tips and tricks. We don't pay dues but we do trade rounds of lunches or dinners.
We had a great session the morning. We did a full schH1 track with food on the corners and jackpot only. The guys thought it would have been about an 85-88 today so we need some work there.
Then we did protection. No serious agitation. Until today we had issues with him laying down in the blind. I had him running around two empty blinds on command then the helper decided to step into one of them with out me or the dog expecting it. My dog it... he ran one blind came in, saw the helper bark bark bark... all up and bouncing in the way I see most dogs. Three solid barks and a bite. Then we tried it again and he did the same thing but we got five barks before he got a bite. Then we ran him again, five barks, I fussed him out on the line into a platz and we did the escape. (just a bite and slip, no driving the dog)
We ended the morning with his 2nd ever courage bite from about 30 yards out. Nice bite, the sleeve was slipped and I put him up.