10/15/2026
Breaker Learning the lifeguard blind retrieve (Running with a handler, hitting the water, and beginning to search) Bumpers are used here as a tool to complete the sequence and learn the behavior with confidence to move forward to more realistic work. Water is an incredibly vulnerable environment. Without confidence, going full speed into waves looking for something they don’t even know is there is a close to impossible task. So we start here. Bell was just showing the pup how and knocking the rust off!