I have read some articles and posts about tracking through drive(it seems this is the best) and other methods. Since I am beginning to train tracking(and i never trained any dogs) on my dogs I have some doubts i hope you could clarify. My dogs are 10mo.(male gsd) and 7mo(female gsd). I first put them out of where i am going to place the track and then i choose a random object and let them sniff it. After this is done, i rub the object on the floor creating a track. As this is just the beggining i let them out immediately and point where is the beggining of the track. After this, i just help them if they get out of the track. They seem to have no problems on the 90 degree turns(but i have only placed 1 turn on the tracks so far). I have placed about 5 tracks for each. They always find the object. I am slowly increasing the size of the track.

My question is if the previous method i have described for all of you is correct or not. It is very hard to find information regarding track training on the net and i have no possibility on buying the tapes on this site(each dollar is equivalent to R$3,54). I just want to train tracking for selecting my dogs.

Sorry for the big post and i hope you can help me out here.

Here are some articles you might find helpful. I have taken a seminar with Gary Murray and it went very well. I highly recommend him if any clubs are interested in TTD.

http://www.memlane.com/business/tightlines/articles.html