A Critique

So as per request, I took a video of Ryder working on my Blackberry.  I'd like to ad this disclaimer - it's very, very difficult to figure out what your dog is doing while trying to keep the Blackberry on him and somewhat steady.  This video was taken a while ago, and he was fresh off a break from work.  We have definitely progressed past this point.  He's now doing nice clean little outruns.  He still doesn't have his flanks down.  He's doing fairly distant drives (albeit with little to no direction).  And I've cleaned up the lie down - which it was my fault it had gone away in the first place.

After editing this - it was five minutes of bad - here are some things that I need to work on.
1) Tone of voice - you could really tell when I was annoyed he wasn't doing his normal awesome work.  Clue - when distracted dog will play...
2) I know he cut his top (and this is now cleaned up) but to be aware of keeping him correct.
3) Don't push - his dive bombing the sheep was because I didn't support him and gave him too much freedom too quickly.  His flanks aren't concrete enough to do what I was asking.
4) Stop with "ah" or "uh uh".

But here it is..... warts and all...

Oh!  Apologies for the sniffle nose...