Day 6: Concept Corners

For anyone who has been reading along, you'll know that yesterday's session didn't work out so well; so I spent the day thinking about what we could do to work on the bank running debacle that we had yesterday. I got thinking about SmartWorks and about Graham's Tune Up Drills. For anyone who doesn't watch these, he takes four or five bumpers and puts them around the edge of a small farm pond, then teaches the dog to go to each one and swim back.

I wasn't yet ready to delve into this water wagon wheel; but I did decide to take Fred down to a remote corner of the club pond and set up a few water blinds across only 20 or so yards of water. I started with ones right across from him and then progressed to ones that were a little bit more cheat enticing. You can see the videos here and here

All in all, I am proud of his progress and on this blustery afternoon we got some big wins to make up for yesterday! I can't wait to take this concept and turn it into a lining drill with bumpers all over my new found concept corner of the pond!