In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

•         Understanding learning theory, types of conditioning, and systems of training.
•         Creating a habit so strong that it will hold up to distractions.
•         Consistency takes knowledge, effort, and discipline.
•         Having a picture in your mind of what is expected, and holding to that standard.
•         Reward is what replicates the habit.

Key Takeaways:

•         If you are struggling with certification level performance, you need to consider reaching out to get some additional help.
•         If you don’t understand theory about how a dog learns, you’re going to run into a difficulty in trying to teach a dog anything
•         Never abandon your training progression just to see what the dog will do.
•         When you have inconsistent training, you have inconsistent behaviors.
•         People who lack goal directed behavior become depressed. Dogs also have goal directed behavior.

“In the grand scheme of things, when you give a command, it happens.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

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Contact Jerry:

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

•         Key temperament traits that give information on how to train the dogs most effectively.
•         The levels of pubic sociability and how it impacts a protection or police dog.
•         Classifications of a dog’s nerves – their adaptability to change.
•         The big 3 drives: prey, social, and defense.
•         What people believe to be fight drive, why it might appear as a drive, and why it is not a drive

Key Takeaways:

•         In the dog world, distance means everything.
•         There will always be some relative weaknesses and some relative strengths. Look at what are going to be willing to work with as a trainer and what the dog is going to be doing.
•         In drives you find basis for motivation.
•         The harder the dog, the more motivational you have to be. The softer the dog, the more compulsion will have the desired effect.

“Temperament characteristics are so important because they have meaning for how we train our dogs.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

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Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The difference between being a handler and being a trainer.
• How long it takes to become an expert.
• Common elements of how talent is developed.
• Getting out of your comfort zone and being enthusiastic about being bad.

Key Takeaways:

• Pay attention to what other people are doing.
• Don’t just train the finished product. Break down your routines into small pieces and practice the elements you want to be better at.
• If you’re going too fast, you will not be able to pay attention to the little errors that are needing to be corrected.
• Pick mentors who still get their hands dirty, training actively and developing their talents.

“Take every opportunity to observe training. Get your hands on dogs, it could be as a handler, it could be as a decoy, it could be watching training or being a part of training, being a backup person, while somebody else is running their dog. Maximize your potential from every hour you spend in training.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/

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Book Recommendation:

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. By Daniel Coyle

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

•         Understanding your end goal and purpose before purchasing your dog.
•         What a green dog is and what to look for when getting a green dog.
•         Outcrossing versus line breeding puppies, and what to look for if choosing a puppy.
•         Some ways of evaluating/testing green dogs and what you’re looking for during those evaluations.
•         Understanding where your dog is, age appropriate.

Key Takeaways:

•         For green dogs, everything changes within a short period of time, sometimes only a couple days.
•         Scarcity rules everything in the world of dogs.
•         Don’t be afraid to take the dogs to a secondary location during testing to see how they react to the new situation.
•         Watch the dog’s response during all aspects of testing, including starts, stops, and transitions.
•         You want the dog to be able to meet aggression with aggression.

“The goal is to see, first, does the dog have the drives in evidence, are they present, and what are the intensity of those drives. You want both prey and defense present and intense. If you have that, you’ve got a lot.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ControlledAggressionPodcast/creators & https://www.patreon.com/user/overview?u=12751896

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Balancing Independence & Handler Focus in Obedience

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

•         The struggle between dog independence and handler focus, ways it comes up, and how to handle it.
•         Striving for balance in your training.
•         Every dog is different and you do not need to use every type of training and technology of training at every moment of training.
•         How the nature and temperament of the dog can affect the balance of independence and focus.

Key Takeaways:

•         Learning a new task, and successive repetition of the task, creates new neural pathways in the brain.
•         Habits that become deeply practiced become sharper and harder to extinguish.
•         Have balance in your training.
•         You don’t have to do everything in the first 6 months of the dog’s life.
•         Understand temperament and how it plays into training methodology.

“If we look at the symptom of lacking independence, the cause can be both too much pressure or just too much motivational engagement with the dog. You can’t tell the difference from the outside unless you know how that dog was trained as a puppy.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Book Referral: The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Better Decoying for Police K9 and Sport

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The difference between a trial decoy and a training decoy.
• Ways to be a better decoy for your club and what you need to do to become a certified decoy.
• Knowing your skills, the theory, and how to put them in practice
• The importance of understanding defense.

Key Takeaways:

• Know your training progressions and skills progressions to best train the dog.
• There is more to learning to be a decoy than just experience. Search out other opportunities to learn, whether from video or books or seminars, not just experience.
• Be predictable and systematic in your training. Understand successive approximation.
• Everything you do in front of the dog must have a purpose.
• Teach young dogs that they win every single fight. Teach the dog that they control everything.

“There’s no ‘shoulds’ in dog training, there’s just what is with that particular dog.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Fallacies, Cognitive Biases, & Paradoxes in Dog Training

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

• The importance of critical thinking.
• Logical fallacies, paradoxes, and cognitive biases and how they pertain to arguments, debates, and discussion.
• Types of fallacies and biases and how they pertain to dog training.
• The Expert Paradox.

Key Takeaways:

• There is no such thing as a master trainer.

• Just because something is popular, doesn’t mean it’s the “only” way to do something.
• There aren’t only two options in training. It’s not an either/or situation. Train a variety of ways to prepare for different scenarios.
• Don’t ignore the probability factor in dog training.

“There are many, many things that we understand as absolute states, and expertness is not one of them. If you are attached to lifelong learning, you can still learn something new that will make you a better trainer in the end.” —  Jerry Bradshaw

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com

Contact Jerry:

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ControlledAggressionPodcast/creators & https://www.patreon.com/user/overview?u=12751896

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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PSA Q&A Clubs, Trial Prep & More! 

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

-How to start a PSA Club.

-The reason there is not a traditional scenting component in PSA.

-What makes PSA different from other dog sports.

-Trial preparation for PSA. 

Key Takeaways: 

-Get a club started, put yourself out there, and you will start to get traction.

-Just because a dog is a good sport dog, does not mean it will necessary be a good police dog. They are two different fields completely.

-Don’t judge other trainers based on the outcome of a trail, you don’t know what their dog is like.

-Don’t over train weak areas. Balance weak areas with stronger areas to give your dog the greatest chance of avoiding the anticipation. 

“You really have to focus on the dog at hand that you are training. There is no one set of guidelines.” —  Jerry Bradshaw 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/ 

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/ 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ControlledAggressionPodcast/creators 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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Training Framework Part 2 – Protection 

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

-Having a system in place for training protection.

-What goes into the foundation of protection for your baseline to build skills.

-What to look for in a dog in temperament evaluation, including sociability, drives, hardness, focus, and attention span.

-The defense margin and avoiding avoidance and displacement behavior.

-The importance of targeting the bite. 

Key Takeaways: 

-Don’t race through your foundation just to get to skills.

-You need to know what your end goal is when going into training.

-Start your training in the dog’s strongest natural drive.

-Proximity is a big part of threat – if it’s not close, it’s not a threat.

-Fights ebb and flow, the dog needs to be able to flow from defense to prey because that’s when he fully learns. 

“It doesn’t really matter whether you’re training an IPO dog, or a PSA dog, or a police dog, the foundational work you must do in order to have a well-developed protection dog is pretty much the same.” —  Jerry Bradshaw 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

Contact Jerry: 

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/ 

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/ 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ControlledAggressionPodcast/creators 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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NE Street Tactics Keynote – Be Good Not Lucky 

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: 

·         Creating options for yourself in deployment, rather than just habits. 

·         Constantly thinking about tactics and how you should be deploying your dog and staying in the safest place you can for the situation. 

·         Being an advocate for your dog and being empathetic to other  

dog trainers and dog handlers. 

·         Striving to improve, not just maintain. You are responsible for your training outcomes. 

·         Learning more. Invest in and learn what you are doing and how it applies to your dog. 

Key Takeaways: 

·         You can have poor tactics but good luck and have success. That doesn’t mean you’ve been doing something good. Poor tactics and bad luck can lead to tragedy. 

·         If you’re going to make big mistakes, do it in training. Take constructive criticism and learn from those mistakes. 

·         Train how you fight – you can’t train at a 6 and run 10+ on a deployment and expect the same results. 

·         Don’t let ego drive you. It’s okay to not do everything that everybody else does. It’s okay to back up on your training and go through training progression. It’s okay if your dog isn’t ready for something right away. 

·         Know your weaknesses, but don’t take your strengths for granted. 

“It boils down to knowledge and options. If you have good tactics, lots of options in deployment, and knowledge of the situations that you’re going into, you can increase the probability of success.” —  Jerry Bradshaw 

Get Jerry’s book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com 

Contact Jerry: 

Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/ 

Tarheel Canine Training: http://www.tarheelcanine.com/ 

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarheelcanine 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarheelcanine 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TarheelCanineTraining 

Protection Sports Website: http://psak9.org/ 

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Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie 

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