Last night I slipped down to tiny marsh and The Farm to do some training. Although it was raining we managed to get in some good work.At Tiny Marsh I ran Artemis on two channel blinds. The first was a short 50yd swim run off of a point to the end of a bay. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ABCD Drill'
Channel blinds, Cheating singles, ABCD drill - lots o work
May 29th, 2009 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blind drills, Blinds, de-cheating, water work
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Update - delinquient in posting our training
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blinds, Line Manners, retired guns, triples, water work
As it happens every spring, life seems to get busier. Since my last post I’ve been out training on a semi regular basis. Unfortunately I’ve not kept up my training journal - I plan to make a better effort to document progress from today forward.Shortly after we got back into the water up here, I [...]
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no-nos, head swinging, injury…
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blinds, Line Manners, no-no drill
You’ll see if you open up my training log that we’ve spent a few training sessions on the no-no drill. My patients & understanding while running this drill have improved - resulting in greater improvement in my dog’s understanding. It won’t be long before I’ll be able to take this concept ‘go as sent’ to [...]
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Big Training session
April 5th, 2009 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blinds, no-no drill, poison bird drill, triples
I Trained with Greg Larden this morning getting in a set of marks, set of blinds (poison bird for Tucker) and a no-no drill with both my dogs & Greg’s dog. Then in the afternoon I headed to The Farm to socialize & help gun. I ran Artemis on a ABCD drill. Both dogs impressed [...]
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Training with Lee & Howard
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blind drills
Wednesday night,
After completing some tasks I needed to for work, I decided to make the effort to join two experienced trainers that had invited me along down at Tiny Marsh (about 1.5 hours away). Lee and Howard are a wealth of knowledge and a lot of fun to train with.
The set up was an ABCD [...]
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No cover marks and yard work
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, T work (mini & TT), Wagon Wheel
 Jenni & I trained the two dogs at the local soccer field in Parry Sound today.
Artemis was run on singles, about 100 yards in length. We had four stickman gunners on the field and I walked from one station to the next while Artemis was returning with the bumper. The throws were once again angle [...]
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Training with a 40 year training veteran - Dennis Voigt
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blinds, Line Manners, Wagon Wheel, walking singles, water work
Wednesday I took off work and traveled to Lindsay, home of Dennis Voigt where I had been invited to attend a training session. Dennis has been involved with retriever training for over 40 years and has/ is playing this game at the highest competitive levels. Dennis is also the owner editor and contributing writer to [...]
