Thanks again Duane. Like I said this the first working dog I've ever had and haven't had the chance to have him evaluated by any pro trainers so I've always wanted to hear other's opinions about whether they they think he's got good genes to do some serious work. I know I'VE got lot's of learning and improving to do but hearing you say you think I've got a good dog(I LOVE him to death regardless)is really encouraging! I'll post some progress again soon!

P.S. I have seen him in full drive before. One word, DEER. He's chased deer before when I've had him off lead on hikes and I've never seen anything like it. Prey drive to the max. I just gotta work on harnessing that drive into obedience and protection work.

That tug toy is the key to harnessing that drive. Work on bringing as much intensity to the game as the dog does.

Good looking out. I strongly suggest http://leerburg.com/228.htm
It deals specifically with improving handler skills and reward presentation.

Much better!

A couple more tips if I may.

I relaize a nose jab to the groin can make any man step back but try and stay in place until you mark.

Your offering a bridge "good".
Dogs don't understand actual words so say "good" with a bit more of a upbeat tone. It sounds just a bit negative and that's what the dog hears.

Oh you certainly may Bob. That's why I'm here! It want all the criticism I can get. Yeah we worked on getting the "come" real close and now I feel my future children may be in jepoardy . I'll keep on working on all the things you guys said and hopefully show more progress in our next video.

Filmed another quick one before the sun went down. Still got lots of room for improvement but I thought I'd throw this up here. We've been working on "outing" a lot this week and I've definitely seen some improvement there. For this week I'm gonna work on uping his intensity before I give the yes and I also wanna work on changing up routines so he doesn't anticipate commands(my mistake I know).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZxjm3mJiXI&feature=youtu.be

looking good!
I don't know if you already do it but mark the down as well as the sit and randomly. Sometimes the sit and sometimes the down. Sometimes JUST the sit and JUST the down. No need to put them together all the time.

When you get those nice clean outs you can mark and reward with a simple presentation of the tug. You definitely want to play tug but no need to make misses in the reward phase. That's for building frustration through drive.

Do you train in other areas of the yard and away from the house? It's a good idea to do that with the things he's solid on. Different areas will add simple distractions.

When starting another behavior go back to what's familiar. Your yard with no distractions.

Start adding time or distance in your yard but never time AND distance at the same time.

I do mark just simple downs and sits I just don't post those vids cause they would be pretty short and boring for you guys.

I've been giving him some misses so he would build up some better motivation for the tug so he would in-turn have better motivation to train. I'm gonna get the Michael Ellis motivation DVD next week.

I used to train more away from the house but now I'm kinda backing up/rewinding/re-doing things since I think I was doing some things wrong and getting bad results because of it. I want to build a better foundation and engagement at home and then move on again. His engagement away from home needs A LOT of work. He will still listen, he just gets distracted very easily. I think I might have over socialized him when I first got him(if that's possible) cause he loves people and dogs and wants to play with everybody and everything when we're out. I also want to start getting better about corrections so he knows he HAS to listen and get a consequence if he doesn't. I'm just worried it will be demotivating to his training. He does take prong collar corrections pretty well though. When he sees another dog that he wants to play with and I give him a good "pop" for freaking out and lunging it's almost like nothing happened.

Lots of improvement there! Great job, Alex!