So I have been having difficulty finding an instructor or a club to do some basic protection or even some challenging IPO skills. Just want to get involved in something more challenging than what we are doing now.
I was out running and training Ragnar and I saw this guy doing some nose work with a group of people and two Mals. They all had Cajun Search and Rescue shirts on. I stopped and talked to them. He is the same guy I saw out there last month working 4-5 Mals with a bunch of people with bite sleeves.
So I pressed him with some questions on basic protection training and he got out his bite sleeve attached to a rope to see if Ragnar could be worked with. Yes, Ragnar went after the bite sleeve that was attached to the rope. This was a given to me. Ragnar will go after a big tug rope or dangling sleeve with a vengeance if you let him. He has a high prey drive. That did not impress me like it did him. What impressed me was that Ragnar did it in front of two Mals with little issue.
So the guy turns to me and says yes he would like to work with Ragnar with basic protection work. He said it starts with building prey drive towards the arm sleeve and then we go from there. We did not go into it too much more because he was finishing up the nose work.
He does not belong to any clubs and he does his own training. Hell, I don’t think there are any clubs around me to belong to. The ones I called in Covington and New Orleans never called me back after several attempts.
He seemed legit?.?. I always see him out there working Mals and GS.
Is there anything that you look for in a trainer to determine if they are legit? Any key things to watch for that show incompetence?
At this point, anything new and challenging we can do may be worth it.?.?
I was out running and training Ragnar and I saw this guy doing some nose work with a group of people and two Mals. They all had Cajun Search and Rescue shirts on. I stopped and talked to them. He is the same guy I saw out there last month working 4-5 Mals with a bunch of people with bite sleeves.
So I pressed him with some questions on basic protection training and he got out his bite sleeve attached to a rope to see if Ragnar could be worked with. Yes, Ragnar went after the bite sleeve that was attached to the rope. This was a given to me. Ragnar will go after a big tug rope or dangling sleeve with a vengeance if you let him. He has a high prey drive. That did not impress me like it did him. What impressed me was that Ragnar did it in front of two Mals with little issue.
So the guy turns to me and says yes he would like to work with Ragnar with basic protection work. He said it starts with building prey drive towards the arm sleeve and then we go from there. We did not go into it too much more because he was finishing up the nose work.
He does not belong to any clubs and he does his own training. Hell, I don’t think there are any clubs around me to belong to. The ones I called in Covington and New Orleans never called me back after several attempts.
He seemed legit?.?. I always see him out there working Mals and GS.
Is there anything that you look for in a trainer to determine if they are legit? Any key things to watch for that show incompetence?
At this point, anything new and challenging we can do may be worth it.?.?