{"id":1384,"date":"2021-11-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"3670d6cd-0662-41e1-a85c-ae7d6a200c36"},"modified":"2021-11-04T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T07:00:00","slug":"variable-reward-intervals-soft-surface-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Variable Reward Intervals &#8211; Soft Surface Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The differences between hard and soft surface tracking (see episode 53 for more on hard surface tracking).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Advantages of soft surface tracking.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Having multiple ways to reward a dog during tracking.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The importance of variation and its relationship to hope.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">To start, begin in shorter grass. Taller grass will hold human scent more than short, manicured grass.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Think of your track as a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It is important that the dog is engaged at every part of the story, or track, and not just anticipating the end.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is important to know where your tracks are and to train yourself to be a less intrusive handler.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Unpredictability increases intensity and focus on the track, especially as you increase the distance and spread in your track.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The unpredictability of when the reward is going to come is going to keep the dog pinned into the track and concentrating on every aspect of the length of that track.&#8221;<\/em> \u2014\u00a0 Jerry Bradshaw<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Get Jerry&#8217;s book <a href= \"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Controlled-Aggression-Girard-Bradshaw\/dp\/B005D2SAQ6\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1529296853&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=COntrolled+aggression+book\"> Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contact Jerry:<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href= \"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/\">controlledaggressionpodcast.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href= \"mailto:JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com\">JBradshaw@TarheelCanine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tarheel Canine Training: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarheelcanine.com\/\">\u00a0www.tarheelcanine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Youtube: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tarheelcanine\">\u00a0tarheelcanine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tarheelcanine\">@tarheelcanine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instagram: <a href= \"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tarheelk9\/\">@tarheelk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href= \"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TarheelCanineTraining\">TarheelCanineTraining<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protection Sports Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/psak9-as.org\/\">psak9-as.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/controlledaggression\">\u00a0\u00a0patreon.com\/controlledaggression<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slideshare: <a href= \"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/gwbradshaw12?utm_campaign=profiletracking&#038;utm_medium=sssite&#038;utm_source=ssslideview\"> Tarheel Canine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calendly: <a href= \"https:\/\/calendly.com\/tarheelcanine\">https:\/\/calendly.com\/tarheelcanine<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ALM K9 Equipment: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almk9equipment.com\/\">almk9equipment.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PSA &#038; American Schutzhund: <a href=\"https:\/\/psak9-as.org\/\">psak9-as.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tarheel Canine: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.tarheelcanine.com\/\">tarheelcanine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Train Hard, train smart, be safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Audio production by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnkeypodcast.com\/\">Turnkey Podcast Productions.<\/a> You&#8217;re the expert. Your podcast will prove it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses: The differences between hard and soft surface tracking (see episode 53 for more on hard surface tracking). Advantages of soft surface tracking.\u00a0 Having multiple ways to reward a dog during tracking.\u00a0 The importance of variation and its relationship to hope.\u00a0 \u00a0 Key Takeaways: To start, begin in shorter grass&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controlledaggressionpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}