Course curriculum

  • 1

    Pre-Course Material

    • Clickers & Markers

    • Rewards and Reinforcement

    • Baseline Recall

  • 2

    Bonus - Auto Sit

    • Auto Sit - Part 1

    • Auto Sit - Part 2

  • 3

    Week 1

    • Exercise 1 - Parking/Off Switch

    • Exercise 2 - Circuits

    • Exercise 3 - Focus

    • Exercise 4 - Introducing the Placeboard

    • Exercise 5 - Hand Touch Recall

    • Exercise 7 - Catch Up Game Recall

    • Exercise 4 - Clicker Retrieve Stage 1

  • 4

    Week 2

    • Exercise 1 - Baseline Heelwork

    • Additional Heelwork Exercise

    • Additional Heelwork Exercise

    • Exercise 2 - Baseline Sit / Stay

    • Additional Sit Stay with Distance, Duration and Distraction

    • Exercise 3 - Placeboard

    • Exercise 4 - Introducing the Stop Whistle

    • Exercise 5 - Clicker Retrieve Stage 2 & 3

  • 5

    Week 3

    • Exercise 1 - Introducing Hunt Whistle

    • Exercise 2 - Go Round Marker Post

    • Exercise 3 - Dartboard Stop

    • Exercise 4 - Hand Touch

    • Exercise 5 - Two Toy Game

    • Exercise 6 - Clicker Retrieve Stage 4

  • 6

    Week 4

    • Exercise 1 - Building Distance to Placeboard

    • Additional Placeboard Exercise

    • Exercise 2 - Sit and Mark

    • Exercise 3 - Teaching the hold

    • Exercise 4 - Tug game to encourage hold

    • Exercise 5 - Clicker Retrieve Stage 5

  • 7

    Week 5

    • Exercise 1 - Hunting for articles

    • Additional Hunting Exercise - Two Poles

    • Additional Hunting Exercise - Hunt Close Whistle

    • Exercise 2 - Increasing Go Round Distance

    • Exercise 3 - Using Placeboard for Stop Whistle

    • Exercise 4 - Teaching Retrieve Pattern

    • Exercise 5 - Clicker Retrieve Stage 6

  • 8

    Week 6

    • Exercise 1 - Steadiness to thrown items

    • Exercise 2 - Jumping

    • Exercise 3 - Go Round and Stop Whistle

    • Exercise 4 - Recall and Stop during Hunting

    • Exercise 5 - Clicker Retrieve Stage 7&8

  • 9

    Week 7

    • Gundog Club Grade 1 Criteria

    • Walk up scenario

  • 10

    Bonus Material

    • Auto Sit to Movement

    • Heelwork with distractions

    • Flirt Pole

    • Obstacle Retrieves