Gundog training: Teaching directions
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Published 2020-06-22
Adem has a particular interest in gundogs. Directional commands play an important role in gundog work but the principle could be applied elsewhere, too.
At the start of the video, Adem gives an overview of the techniques he will demonstrate. Terms like "blind retrieve" may seem confusing at first, but he goes on to illustrate these terms so that we can clearly see how the training works in practise.
All Comments (21)
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When I was teaching my Griff hand signals, we would play "Baseball". He would stand on pitchers mound and I would be at home plate. I would have a dummy on 1st, 2nd and 3rd base. Then direct him to which ever dummy I chose. I gradually increased the distance and added bird scent to the dummies when playing the game in high grass. Worked wonders out in the field our first full hunting season. RIP Magoo.
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This is very well done. It would be helpful to show a dog making a mistake so we could see the process you use to deal with mistakes.
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excellent! nice clear instructions. my young lab picked this up immediately. i love the english approach to gundog traning, with an emphasis on obedience and calmness rather than all the collar corrections
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Best video I’ve seen on this yet! Going to go practice with my 2 year old today.
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Very clear and helpful - excellent instructions!!
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Brilliant video! Agree with the other comments about how to correct mistakes would have been great! but i guess it's all about going two step backwards when mistakes are made!
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fantastic video. I am training a black lab/golden retreiver mix with my own whistles at different pitches for each direction. amazingly intelligent animals if we do the training. thanks for lots of great tips and advice
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Very nice lesson. Thank you 👍
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Really good clear techniques, very useful with my nine month old lab.
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Great video!
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That was awesome!
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Excellent 👌🏻 new subscriber
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Very helpfull video, i have a 7 month old lab coming along well, at what age should he be at this stage?
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Was this the first training directional training session, fantastic instructions thanks
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Hi have you done a vid on the go back command? I'm training my sprocker who is really sharp so don't want to make any mistakes to confuse the fella. Thanks
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wonderful
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How old is the dog at this stage?
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At what age would you start training a lab this
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So for this exercise you have to take the dog away from the training area, when you move onto the blind retrieve ? Nice video!!
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Is the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" a load of rubbish? I have an 8-year-old lab who has had one lesson years ago. But I would love to mentally challenge him with the basic gun dog training.