May 11, 2011
Do you have any other work (podcasts, videos, etc.) that may apply to retriever training? You also mentioned a new DVD in the marker DVD.
Full Question:
Hi Ed,My name is Mike and I'm a retriever trainer & competitor in Michigan. I just watched your marker training video and I am looking to bring more of market training into my field. I see a lot of applications.
I compete with labs in retriever hunt tests (HRC, AKC) and 99.9% of the trainers are force & correction crazy. Do you have any other work (podcasts, videos, etc.) that may apply to retriever training? In the DVD you said that you have a new DVD coming out, when will that be available?
Enjoyed the video and have read most of your eBooks & listened to your podcasts. Great work!
Mike
Ed's Answer:
Mike,
I certainly agree with you on retriever training. The majority of trainers are old school training with barbaric training methods.
Later this year I wil be doing a number of training videos with markers – one of which will be the motivational retrieve. You can get a glimpse of the beauty and reliability of this work by going to my web site – streaming videos – (look on the blue side bar of every page for streaming videos. There are some short videos there of Cindy doing retrieve work with her young mal.
I'll be doing this video with Michael Ellis.
The think about marker training is that the power lies in the foundation. Once you have a good foundation in markers and play with the dog (I will do a video on this too) training the exercises is drop dead simple – basically because you have then establishing a language of stress free communication that your dog understands. It doesn’t matter what dog sport you care to compete in – or what exercises you care to train your dog to do.
If you get my newsletters you will see when I come out with these new DVDs
The bottom line is field trial trainers are living in the dark ages. Schutzhund and the biting sports used to be there. More and more the only people who win in Schutzhund or Mondio Ring are marker trainers. This will come to field trials – it cant not come. Sooner or later there wil be marker trainers in your sport that will win everything - then the others will change. In our case dogs that were winning in the early 1990’s wouldn’t even be in the top ten finishers of a competition today.
Ed Frawley
I certainly agree with you on retriever training. The majority of trainers are old school training with barbaric training methods.
Later this year I wil be doing a number of training videos with markers – one of which will be the motivational retrieve. You can get a glimpse of the beauty and reliability of this work by going to my web site – streaming videos – (look on the blue side bar of every page for streaming videos. There are some short videos there of Cindy doing retrieve work with her young mal.
I'll be doing this video with Michael Ellis.
The think about marker training is that the power lies in the foundation. Once you have a good foundation in markers and play with the dog (I will do a video on this too) training the exercises is drop dead simple – basically because you have then establishing a language of stress free communication that your dog understands. It doesn’t matter what dog sport you care to compete in – or what exercises you care to train your dog to do.
If you get my newsletters you will see when I come out with these new DVDs
The bottom line is field trial trainers are living in the dark ages. Schutzhund and the biting sports used to be there. More and more the only people who win in Schutzhund or Mondio Ring are marker trainers. This will come to field trials – it cant not come. Sooner or later there wil be marker trainers in your sport that will win everything - then the others will change. In our case dogs that were winning in the early 1990’s wouldn’t even be in the top ten finishers of a competition today.
Ed Frawley
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