TODO List Archive

Today I'm replacing the TODO list with a newer version, so I wanted to record my old TODO list for future reference:

• Dinner
• – Fine-tuning alignment at line for blinds and memory birds (doodling)
  
• – Remote retrieve and return to SL
• Solo/Land
• – Interrupted series
• &mdash Bird thrown from behind the line
  
• – Pick-up drill
• – Offset drill
• – Practice 2-seconds, "dog", 2-seconds, hand over head, 2-seconds, dog's name (2/3 of time)
  
• – Triple blind:
• >> Quick 2nd whistle for gawking (include in "The 2Q Retriever")
  
• >> Short blinds for Lumi to build confidence
• >> Bird scent irrelevancy
  
• >> Casting into cover
  
• – Remote retrieve and return to SL
• – Holding blind and SL approach
• – Heeling
  
• Solo/Water
• — Interrupted series
• — Bird thrown from behind the line
  
• – Use walk-outs for slow pick-ups or procrastinating on water entries
• – Set up short handling drills and call dog back to heel for slipped whistles or refused casts
  
• – Diagonals across ditches:
• >> Pile work in ditch
• >> Baseball drill, where P1/P3 are the banks
  
• >> Lining with straight and angle entries
  
• – Rewatch Lardy video:
  
• >> Cheaters
• >> Walk-arounds
• >> Chinese singles
• >> Cold blinds
• – On-and-off point per Woodyard article
  
• Thrower:
• — Interrupted series
• — Bird thrown from behind the line, including with a winger
  
• – Long, unpredictable waits before sending dog on flyers
• – Always practice honoring, on lead if necessary
• – Try to have a blind planter during practice, so dog learns to deal with that distraction
• – Get someone to act as judge: wait 3 seconds, say "dog" (quietly, like a judge); then I should wait 2-seconds, hand over head, 2-seconds, send dog
  
• – Land and water blinds in every series if possible, with dry shots if possible
  
• – Occasional hip-pocket and other picture drills
• – Senior Hunt Test preparation:
• >> Practice handling off of diversions
  
• >> Practice walk-ups
• >> Practice with line gun
• >> Practice multiples with HT line mechanics, but 99% singles
• >> Honoring flyers
• – Master Hunt Test preparation:
• >> Develop ability to handle smoothly and compliantly on a mark, and then go on to pick up the rest of the test as marks.
  
• – L-W-L-W-L:
  
• >> Last land
• >> Intermediate point
  
• >> Thrower on different point than fall