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Hey everyone. Welcome to the Houndations podcast. I'm your host Tony Peterson. And today's

episode is all about dealing with the attrition of hunting skills when we leave the training

grounds and head out into the fields and on the water with our dogs.

If you haven't yet gone through what I'm going to talk about on this show,

you're either the best dog trainer on the planet, or you have the best dog on the planet,

or you're blissfully aware of the reality when you actually hunt.

All three would be great, but only one is very likely.

The truth is, we train our dogs for a lot of real-world scenarios when it comes to hunting,

but those skills, as sharp as they can be off the field,

will often just dull up out of nowhere when the wild birds start flying and the guns start going off. There are some ways to nullify the atrophy of skills, though, which is what I'm

going to talk about right now.

You know that fellow who used to be a pretty big deal in basketball?

Isn't he goes about the name Michael Jordan?

Have you ever seen the video of his first dunk attempt in the NBA way back in the mid-80s?

If you haven't, I'll give you a quick synopsis, but first, I want to break down a few things.

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