Day 22: Trust is a Two Way Street

I didn't write yesterday because it was a fairly uneventful training day. We trained at the farm and stuck to some long bumper boy marks and a few simple blinds. A storm rolled in and cut us short; so this afternoon we picked up where we left off.

Rob, Kevin and I headed to the club and set up some fun situations. We went back to the water double followed by a water blind for our first scenario. The double seemed like it would be pretty straightforward, but when Kevin threw the memory bird and neither I or Fred could see it fall (or so I thought).

Despite a little cheating on the way back from the go bird, Fred did a great job on this. I got ready to send him on the memory bird, and realized that if he got in trouble I wouldn't even be able to handle him from where I was standing. As soon as he sat down and locked in to his far left, I thought he just might have an idea so I sent him....and he nailed it!

As you can see it is difficult to see the fall, but just that little splash was enough for Fred. I was so proud of him, and just like I'm asking him to trust me in the blind work, I am learning to trust him a little bit too.

The blind went moderately well. I knew that I lined him wide right and just let him go. Once he hit the other shore he was about 5 feet off of it so I blew the sit whistle...right as he saw it. Oops. I need to keep at it though, because as hard as my little guy is working to learn for me I need to keep learning for him!