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Protection Helper Program

Program Overview

  • 150 Full Training Sessions
  • Total Investment: $20,000 + HST
  • Payment Plan Available: 4 Equal Installments (25% Each)
  • Every student receives professional, hands-on education with a clear, structured curriculum — from foundations to elite levels. I personally guarantee proper, safe, and real training results with every dog
  • In competition, the helper (decoy) is the person who demonstrates the dog’s protection value to the judges — showing the dog’s genetics, drive, and training under field conditions. In the training field, the helper is much more: a partner who builds and prepares the dog from zero to field-ready.
  • Being a helper requires mental, intellectual, and physical effort. A skilled helper finds a dog’s weaknesses and builds them up while preserving and refining the dog’s strengths.
  • It’s about shaping confidence, precision, and reliable behavior under pressure.
  • My respect to all professional helpers — I’m excited to start working together. Get your jacket and sleeve ready — let’s hit the field.
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Phase 1: Barking & Guarding Work

  • Barking and guarding - foundational skills
  • Distance control - maintaining correct space
  • Transition out of prey drive during barking
  • Pressure barking - understanding dominant barking
  • Active and intense barking sessions
  • Frustration barking - how to use and extend it
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Phase 2: Transition Phase

  • From barking to active fighting
  • Removing bad training habits and patterns
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Phase 3: Problem Solving

  • Barking but not targeting sleeve - how to fix it
  • Building a clear, upright guard position
  • Maintaining guard after decoy exits
  • Pulling the sleeve - building proper fight
  • Fixing chewing - creating solid grip
  • Scream during grip - diagnosis and fix
  • Building a confident picture of control & aggression
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Phase 4: Advanced Protection Work

  • Teaching long bite and escape bite
  • Rear transport (carry work)
  • How to use pressure with drive properly
  • Targeting sleeve, not body
  • Developing speed, reaction, and reflex
  • Understanding personal (defensive) drive vs prey drive
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Phase 5: Drive Development & Reading the Dog

  • Proper drive development in protection
  • Reading the dog’s energy and body
  • Adjusting training style to dog genetics
  • Step-by-step power and focus building
  • Correcting without harming confidence
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Phase 6: Advanced Theory - Trainer Q&A

  • Dominant barking vs dominance
  • Prey barking: what and why?
  • Is my dog genetically fit for protection work?
  • Blind work vs throwing sleeve
  • Silent barking - causes and fixes
  • Screaming during grip - genetic or handler error?
  • OUT command issues: what causes conflict?
  • Building a voluntary OUT
  • Prey drive vs person drive: key differences
  • Drive balance: building the right picture
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Phase 7: Puppy Training

  • How and when to start protection with puppies
  • Choosing the correct method for each pup
  • Early-stage red flags and what to avoid
  • Setting up long-term success from the start
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Phase 8: Grip Development

  • Genetics vs training: strong grips
  • Mistakes that lead to weak grips
  • Fixing chewing and bad bites
  • Improving pressure, calmness, and depth of grip
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Phase 9: Jump & Targeting

  • Why some dogs won’t jump
  • Teaching safe and accurate jumping
  • Targeting sleeve vs body
  • When obstacles help - and when they don’t
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Phase 10: Handler's Work at Home

  • What to do at home before protection training
  • Building obedience and structure
  • Control through rewards (ball, toy, food)
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Phase 11: Barking & Communication

  • Dominant barking - what it really means
  • Barking for toy vs personal motivation
  • Using person drive before bite
  • Rewarding vocal communication correctly
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Phase 12: Tools & Equipment

  • How and when to introduce tools
  • Choosing the correct equipment for each stage
  • Safe tool use without conflict
  • Age-based approach for both young and adult dogs
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Who Is This Program For?
Serious trainers looking to go professional
Dog owners who want reliable, high-level protection training
Handlers seeking real results without shortcuts
People ready to understand the why, not just the how
Ready to Begin?
Start your journey into elite protection dog training.
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The Protection Helper Program
150 sessions. Real training. Real results.
From foundation to field — a step-by-step system that builds powerful protection dogs with confidence, control, and true drive.
Whether you’re starting with a puppy or preparing for trial-level work, this program will take your training to the highest level.
Not just bite work — this is deep, professional development for serious people.
Only 3 clients accepted per year.
This is high-level, personal coaching with real results. No shortcuts.