“Distance Work” is not just a matter of whether a dog will work at a distance. The handler must have the skill to shape the dog’s path to frame the distance presentation. Sometimes the wise words of an old golfing buddy of mine occur to me as I watch someone spoiling a line of approach for a distance send; he would say to me “Have you ever tried aiming”?

It’s my intention to publish a suite of distance training exercises in my weblog. This entry begins the foray. I have a number of students keenly interested in distance work. Because most of them come from an AKC background it will be a matter of prying apart the Velcro™. Just between you and me and the wall, it has been my observation over the years that Velcro is a two-part fabric. It takes both parts for a good stick.