In the bite work I have always compared the attacks of ring dogs (French Ring And Mondioring) to boxing. These two sports both require a tremendous amount of technique. It is necessary to have a perfect team, one cannot work without the other; a good handler, a good training decoy and a good dog with the qualities necessary for these sports. The handler is the corner second or caretaker, the dog is the boxer and the training decoy, for me the most important, is the sparring partner and coach all wrapped in one.

Some think that sometimes it's possible with a very strong dog, one that enters very hard in the attacks, but that lacks technique, to still work on any competition decoy. It's true, but never will the dog finish on the podium, or if so only briefly. It's the same with a boxer that has a crushing punch, but lacks technique. He will win and lose by chance.

I had the good fortune to work with the best of trainers and handlers. Some of them for a long time and others for only short stays, but all of them were masters of technique. The best of trainers was actually a retired boxer and with him I learned that I is necessary to leave NOTHING to chance.

In my seminars, the first part, you will understand, my discussions deal a lot with technique.

In the second part, I try to give explanations on how I work with dogs that have problems. Examples: Why and how to use the bungee for certain dogs and pulling a tire for others? Why do I put certain dogs on the pants and others on the jacket for the bite work? And why do I pull on the leash for a dog that has a weak or chewy bite? I prefer to stop here as the list will be too long. And particularly for starting the young dogs (5 or 6 months) with the tug and the rag because the basics is very important for the young dogs to start in the sport. In my seminars, I try to show my technique and my strategy in all exercises.