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- Why are so many stress drills in sport world so introductory?

- In my recent viral Facebook videos, I got a comment asking if we do stress drills they often see on other videos. Loud noises, rattle cans, weird items around the dogs.

- Many stress drill have fundamental misunderstandings of the dogs mental capabilities and rationale
- Dogs cannot reason the same way a person can
- Dogs are pattern driven, experiential creatures
- Well bred dogs do not experience fear the same way a human does. Can it hurt me? Can I fight it?

- Low level stress drill

- High level stress drills

NOTES & OTHER STUFF Training Story
- Muzzle Work video that freaked everyone out

What’s new on the dogstead? Water lines, irrigation and automation of water for chickens.

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Maeve/Ryker - GSD (Oct 2023)
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Communication with your dog

- 3 Primary Forms of Communication

- Verbal - Words & Tone
What you say
How you say it

- Lead Direction
Seems simple - but Most people suck at this
Stop allowing a tight lead
Reward the dog for doing what you ask by allowing them to create slack in the lead

- Gestures Subtle body language
How you lean
Using your hands and arms to lead or direct - Hand and arm signals
Lead into Dynamic Movement 

- How to be a better handler and trainer using proper communication

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Shooting, Moving and Communicating.

The foundations of defense and tactics
- 10% of tactics is shooting - 60% of tactics is moving - 30% of tactics is communicating

- Shooting - Cool Shit!
- Fundamentals of shooting - reloading, manipulation (including malfunctions), hitting
- These should all be subconscious
- Incorporating Shooting into Moving and Communicating

- Moving - Individual Movement Techniques
- Forward, Backward, Getting Up & Down with Firearm, Moving around objects to minimize target, Entering & Exiting Vehicles
- Stealth vs Dynamic - Slower is almost always better even in a dynamic situation
- Team Movement Techniques - Room & Building entry and clearing, Formations, Triangulation, Avoiding Flagging, Situational Awareness, Flanking

- Communicate
- Movement communication - Left, Right, Flanking, Ready (Squeeze),
- Shooting communication - Reloading, malfunction, clear, cease fire, hostile/non-hostile, covering and going hands on
- Radio comms vs verbal - VOX vs PTT
- Minimizing the need for verbal or hand communication through TTPs and rehearsed tactics

- Don’t forget tactical medical training

- Shooting Skills are great, but if you want to communicate that into a tactical capability, you must master and incorporate the tactics of moving and communicating

- Don't forget to integrate your dog into this training as well

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We talk about Business, and working with a Niche Business, Marketing and more. And then we talk about dogs, you know...cause that's kind of my thing. Check it out, awesome conversation with Nicole and John.

Nicole has a podcast called Living Free in Tennessee (LFTN) and sells gourmet coffee at Hollerroast.com.

John has a great YouTube Channel and makes Tactical Nylon gear at originalsoegear.com.

Why should you care about the effects of stress? 
- Fights / Self Defense 
- Driving Accident or other high stress dangerous situation 

Physiological 
- Elevated heart rate and breathing, adrenaline and other hormone rushes...but what does that mean in real life? 
- Shaky - loss of fine motor skills 
- Tunnel Vision 
- Auditory Exclusion 
- Visual Exclusion 

Cognitive 
- Reduced ability to think and reason under stress 
- Fast Time 
- Slow Time 
- Memory gaps immediately follow - no statements to police (lawyer) 

How to train yourself to overcome these effects 
- Stress Inoculation 
- Mental Scenarios 
- Training and Rehearsing Basic Critical Skills until they are automatic / subconscious 

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- I am not a room and gloomer, but let’s look at a few things going on in the world 
- Financial Recession/Depression 
- Global Financial pressures on dollar 
- Potential conflict with nuclear powers 
- Food shortages 
- AI / Tech changes drastically change job market 

- What can we do about it? 
- Cover your basics: 
- Three months financial reserves 
- Solid assets 
- Food, store what you eat and eat what you store. Be a producer 
- Water 
- Security 

- Build resilience in your life 
- Second or passive income 
- Savings in assets, not dollars 
- Flexibility of mindset 
- What will this likely actually look like?

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Training Your Mind for self defense through scenarios

- There are many limitations to training. Maybe you’re just busy and can’t spend time training. Range only allows static shooting? RUN MENTAL SIMULATIONS

- Subconscious Decision making
- The subconscious takes over in high stress situations, this is where fight or flight comes from
- The subconscious doesn’t know the difference between real and make believe, so you can train it through vivid imagination of situations, SIMULATIONS

- Reverting to your lowest level of training
- You know that you have trained your subconscious on a taks when you can complete the task while distracted by a new task. Walking and chewing gum
- Running and reloading at the same time
- Moving and communicating at the same time

- How to run mental simulations - be as detailed as possible.
- This is where at least going to a realistic training facility can be helpful first.
- But if not, run your initial mental simulations, and then test them with fake guns or airsoft type training guns

- Examples of simulations
- Home Invasion
- Bump in the night
- Attack on handler
- Vehicle attack

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Killing the Poverty Mindset

- What is Poverty Mindset?
   - Always concerned there will not be enough to go around

- How I used to think
   - Competition is bad and cuts into my business
   - How will I make enough to get by

- How to embrace the Prosperity Mindset
   - First, realize that you aren’t competing with anyone else
   - You are unique and no one else can be you
   - Second, there is always plenty to go around
   - People connect with other people they can relate to. Be genuine and honest and you will be un-cancelable
   - Don’t feel like you have to please everyone, your personality is what people will connect with

- What areas of your life does this affect
   - Environment
   - Income/Work
   - Investments/Saving
   - Purchasing Decisions

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Be a Victor, Not a Victim 

1. The victim mentality - you can not have a happy life if you see yourself as a victim. 

2. There are actual victims and there are a lot of people who think they are victims that are not. 

a. Even actual victims do not benefit from embracing victim hood 
b. Those who are not victims are only making their own lives less joyful by playing the victim 
c. Everyone can claim that they have been victimized by someone 

3. What is a victor? 

a. They accept that bad things happen and decide to do their duty anyway 
b. They do not blame others for their problems, they take responsibility for their own lives 
c. They see obstacles as opportunities to excel and develop character 

4. What does this have to do with dog training and handling? 

a. Your mental state has a huge impact on your dog’s performance 
b. Why do my dogs bite so quickly? Because I want them to. 

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The Difference Between Dog & Man and What Makes Dogs so Unique to Us

- 12 Pillars of Dog Training - 7. Dogs are not humans. 8. Dogs do not think humans are dogs.

- There is this predominating theory in the dog training world that you have to be the dog’s alpha, as if you are the pack leader.
   - Have you ever seen a tiger lead a dog pack? Or a bull elephant? Why not? Those animals could dominate any single dog in the pack.

- What makes us similar and draws us to the dog?
   - Humans and dogs both have a desire to bond. Humans often have desires to bond to many different types of animals and you see that in the variety of animals that humans work with. Dogs want to bond to a human.
   - This makes the dog unique in the animal world.

- How are we so different?
   - The dog has no access to the world of human reason and morality. If an evil person trained a dog to bite children on command for no reason, the dog would do it. Dogs do not know why we ask them to sit and wait. They do not understand the morality of defending yourself. They only know what they have been taught and operate on their basic instinct.
   - The man has limited access to the raw world
     - The world of scent
     - Higher and lower pitches of sound
     - Access to the soul

- I personally believe that the dogs did not come from the wolf. I believe that man and dog co-existed as partners since creation and that the wolf and other wild dogs are a combination between the cast aways and lost dogs.

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