Loot Ketchum – Gotta Catch Em All | A Flatwork Session

Last week I put out a piece with Loot on Punishing with a Pause and an Offered Down for better catching. I’ve been keeping on task with him with this method for almost two weeks. He’s coming along nicely and the drops are disappearing from our game.

In our daily training sessions he is offering a down rather quickly at a distance for any over-pursued miss and those misses are dropping in frequency. The only time I’ve not kept on the method was during Bite Club as I have an obligation to the team.

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