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>Dude, I hear you. The core exercise is taught first. >And actually the intitial training should be >patterned, so the dog learns it. The variations come >later. > >I don't want to sound like a rookie popping off, but I >left the CA trial thinking that some of the old pros >were a bit taken aback by the difficulty and >diabolical nature of the Doh exercise in MR I and II. > >The entire sport makes me think about pattern, >routines, and unscripted scenarios. For instance, I >thought that the face attack always came before the >Doh in the Brevet, and so did my dog. But the order >was reversed at the trial, which screwed us up. > >It is possible to fall into patterns in training, even >if you are using different props and going through >variations in your heeling pattern during OB, and >mixing things up here and there. > >I always train OB first and then protection. I do so >because I think that is the way it will be done in a >trial. Is that a hard and fast rule for Mondio? I >don't know. Even if it is a hard and fast rule, I want >to break up the routine.

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