Page 1 Home Page

page2 Seminars

Page 3 All Products

page 4 Our Services

page 5 Flow Chart

Page 6 Articles

page7 Testimonials

page 8 Champions!

page 9 Glossary of terms

Evan Graham LLC/Smartwork for Retrievers

EXCELLENCE WITH EASE!

Evan Graham’s
Smartwork System™
Books & DVDs

NEW ITEM!

GUNDOG ESSENTIALS

A special course focused on Basic Gundog skills; land & water! With special emphasis on Obedience & Force Fetch, plus much more!

Gundog Essentials, Phase 1; the Basic Gundog DVD $19.95; free shipping

Contents of Gundog Essentials, Phase 1

 

1)     Basic Skills for Gundogs: What hunters said

2)     Picking a Gundog Puppy & Pedigree

3)     Bonding & Socialization

4)     What should I do with my puppy?

5)     Ropes & paint rollers

6)     Basic Obedience

7)     Getting ready for puppy when he comes home

8)     Introduction to gunfire

9)     Introduction to water

10) Introduction to Cover & Decoys

11) Introduction to birds

12) Marks for gundogs

13) Steadiness

14) Signs of maturity

15) Memory drill

16) Field ready marks

17) Fundamental Force Fetch

18) Working from blinds, stands & platforms

19) Live birds

20) Formal Obedience

 

 


The Full SMARTWORK Package Special!
 

Includes all of the following DVD’s

  • Smartwork Puppy Program
  • Smartwork Obedience
  • SmartFetch
  • Smartwork Basic Handling
  • Water Force & Swim-by
  • Transition; Phase 1
  • Transition; Phase 2
  • Transition; Phase 3

Regular price $229.60 + $40.00 S&H

NOW specially priced at $195.00 and Free Shipping!!!

Full System Special
$195.00
Basics Pack Special
BASICS PACK SPECIAL!

All four of our Basics DVD’s:

  • Smartwork Obedience
  • SmartFetch
  • Basic Handling
  • Water Force & Swim-by

Purchased individually these would total $124.80 plus a total of $20.00 for S&H

Special pricing: $105.00, free S&H!


Basics Pack Special
$105.00
Bonus Basics Pack
BONUS BASICS PACK SPECIAL!

All four of our Basics DVD’s:

  • Smartwork Obedience
  • SmartFetch
  • Basic Handling
  • Water Force & Swim-by

Plus our new Smartwork Puppy Program DVD!

 

Purchased individually these would total $154.73 plus a total of $25.00 for S&H

Special pricing: $131.50 free S&H!

Bonus Basics Pack Special
$131.50
Transition Special: All 3 DVDs
The new Transition Special

Includes all of the following DVD’s

  • Transition; Phase 1
  • Transition; Phase 2
  • Transition; Phase 3
All 3 for only $64.00! Free Shipping!

Transition Special
$64.00
Water Force & Swim-by DVD $24.95

Smartwork Water Force & Swim-by DVD

$24.95

Smartwork Obedience DVD

$24.95

Men of Steel DVD

$34.95

Transition; Phase 1 DVD $24.95

Smartwork Basic Handling DVD

$24.95

SmartFetch DVD 2 discs/2 hours & 18 minutes. Ultimate force fetching detail!

$49.95

Transition: Phase 1 DVD

$24.95

Transition; Phase 3 DVD 24.95
Walking Baseball DVD $12.95

Smartwork Transiiton: Phase 2 DVD

$24.95

Smartwork Transiiton: Phase 3 DVD

$24.95

Walking Baseball DVD - the Casting-only drill you can do alone!

$12.95

Special pricing

Puppy DVD

$29.95

DCD on DVD

$19.95

Original WF
$20.00
Gundog Essentials: Basic gundog
"No Cheating!" Decheating program
 
Gundog Essentials - Basic gundog
$19.95
No Cheating!
$24.95
 
STICKMEN
Truly the Latest & Greatest!

The all new MARKSmen are the very best Stickmen available! Lightweight and highly visible, this portable human form is one of the most valuable tools for the retriever trainer!
See our DVD,
Men of Steel for many applications of these versatile tools in training your retriever. MARKSmen can be easily seen by your dog at over a quarter of a mile in most circumstances.

They can be used in many creative ways, including providing a human form for your helpers to stand behind as gun stations, or where only a launcher is used. The same use can easily extend to ABC-type multiple gun station drills to establish permanent stand-up gun stations with as few as one helper walking from one station to the next, as you direct.

As you will also see on our Men of Steel DVD, we show you many ways to use MARKSmen as portable structure to place in strategic ways for blind work, and for marks in association with blinds.

Highly flexible in their applications, their use is only limited by your own imagination. The more you use them, the more ideas you will generate for their use in the training of your retriever!

1-2 units $36.00 each. /3-5 units $34.00 each. /6 or more units $32.00 each
Contact Vince Benedetto for
shipping cost calculations and payment at
vbsdogs@aim.com
or call 816-686-2538

*BUMPER LAUNCHER NOT INCLUDED


  • The Smartwork system in order;

    Books:

    Smartwork for Retrievers volume one; Basics and Transition
    SmartFetch
    Smartwork II: Secrets of the Pros


    DVD's:

    Puppy Program
    Smartwork Obedience
    SmartFetch
    Smartwork Basic Handling
    Smartwork Water Force & Swim-by
    Men of Steel (the Stickman Drills)
    Transition: Phase 1
    Transition: Phase 2

    Transition: Phase 3
    Walking Baseball (casting-only drill)
    Definitive Casting
    No Cheating
    Gundog Essentials; Phase 1

Regarding the new SmartFetch DVD's:

"Just finished viewing these training DVDs from Evan Graham.
They are excellent. Even though they are designed to tie in with
the Smartwork books, I found that they stand-alone very well.

These should be a must for anyone planning on forcing their own
dog or even sending a dog off for training.
A very big Congrats on these to Evan and his crew."

~ Gordy Weigel
pro trainer, Missouri

Content of Smartwork Books and DVD's

Books

 

Smartwork for Retrievers volume one; Basics and Transition

 

·        Fundamental Training Principles

·        Correct Principles of Application

·        Starter Program for Puppies

·        Basics; an overview with Flow Chart for Development

·        Obedience (formalizing)

·        Force Fetch

·        Pile work

·        Handling/3-handed casting

·        Establishing the Mechanics of Tee work

·        “Teaching” triples, and Extending Patterns

·        3rd Compound Stage; Double T, Extending pattern distances

·        Diversion Mark
4th Compound Stage; Water T/Swim-by, Multiple Marks

·        Cold Blind Transition/Land

·        Cold Blind Transition/Water

·        Critical Elements of Marking, Diversion Pressure

·        Water Marks

·        Diversion drills

·        Glossary of Terms

 

SmartFetch

 
  • Heel, Sit, Here
  • Force Fetching
  • “Fetch” Compulsion Begins
  • E-collar conditioning
  • Force to pile
  • When things don’t go like the books & videos say they should go!
  • Water Force
  • “What good is all that forcing, anyway?”
 

Smartwork II, Secrets of the Pros

 
  • Finishing the Transition
  • Late Transitions in Marking
  • Bird Placement
  • Advanced Diversions
  • Land Blinds
  • Water Blinds
  • Handler Tips & Attrition
  • Tips for Testing
  • Troubleshooting

 

DVD’s

 

Puppy Program


  • Socialization and Beyond
  • General field protocols
  • Beware of excesses
  • My Puppy Plan
  • How To: Tasks and Skills
  • Operant Conditioning
  • E-collar conditioning
  • Introducing puppies to feathers
  • Introducing puppies to bumpers & Artificial Game Birds
  • Puppy Marking
  • Introduction to Gunfire
  • Introduction to Water  & Water marks for puppies
  • Decoy introduction
  • Summary
    1 hour & 20 minutes
     

Smartwork Obedience

 
  1. Principles
  2. Formalizing “Here” w/e-collar
  3. Pressure Conditioning
  4. Restraint
  5. Follow-up
  6. Heel & Sit
  7. A Square Sit
  8. Kennel
  9. De-bolt

SmartFetch

 
  1. Objectives
  2. Flow chart
  3. Obedience
  4. Schedules & Marking
  5. Hold
  6. Acceptance vs. Avoidance
  7. Fetch objectives
  8. The Puzzle
  9. Tables
  10. Walking Hold
  11. Turning off pressure
  12. Fetch
  13. Clamming
  14. Forcing progression
  15. Transition Review
  16. Conducting sessions/Hold
  17. Roller to bumper
  18. Transition to ear pinch
  19. Going down
  20. E-collar conditioning to Fetch
  21. Stick Fetch
  22. Fetch-no-fetch
  23. Force to pile
  24. Mini-pile to 9-bumper
  25. Vital details
  26. Pattern blinds
  27. Bonus material
  28. Forcing on birds
 Basic Handling 
  1. Prerequisites
  2. 3-handed casting
  3. Follow-up 3HC
  4. Transition to Mini-T
  5. Follow-up/Mini-T
  6. Drill essentials
  7. Words of caution
  8. Running Single T
  9. En Route Force
  10. Identify & force on casts
  11. “Here” as a cast
  12. The power of Double T
  13. Running Double T
  14. Trouble shooting T’s
  15. Bugging
  16. No-go
  17. Popping
  18. Closing comments

Water Force & Swim-by

 
  1. Prerequisites
  2. Mentorship
  3. Warm up & Start session
  4. “A snag!”
  5. Rope-a-dope
  6. Follow up & Review
  7. Swim-by
  8. Identify piles
  9. Treading water
  10. More than one way
  11. Put it together
  12. Non-acceptance
  13. How do I know when I’m done?
  14. Ready to move on!

Transition; Phase 1

 
  1. Steadiness
  2. Passive honor
  3. Walking baseball
  4. Pattern blinds
  5. Running Patterns
  6. 5-leg Patterns
  7. Wagon Wheel Drills
  8. 4-way Push/Pull Drill
  9. 8-bumper Drill
  10. 16-bumper Drill
  11. 8-handed Casting
  12. BB Blinds
  13. Change to Orange
  14. Zig-zag Drill
  15. Four-phase Drill

(The drills and procedures of Early Transition!)

 

Transition; Phase 2

 
  1. Tune-up Drills
  2. Swim-by in Tune-up’s
  3. Tune-up Drill #1
  4. Tune-up Drill #2
  5. Blind Attitude
  6. Cheating Singles
  7. Walk around blinds
  8. KRD
  9. Primary marking
  10. Land Diagonal Drills
  11. Gradient Blind Drill
  12. Cast-into-water Drill
  13. No-hands Back Drill

(The drills and procedures of Mid Transition!)

  Transition; Phase 3
  1. Advanced Tune-up Drills *
  2. No-Hands “Back” Drill *
  3. Cast-off-points Drills *
  4. Check-down Drills
  5. Chair Drills *
  6. Split Drills
  7. Chinese Drills
  8. Advanced Mark & Blind use in Cold Set-up’s
  9.  Journal Keeping *
  10.  Choosing Factors
  11.  Blinds; a beginning/middle/end
  12.  Handling/casting tips

(The drills and procedures of Late Transition!)


The Core of the system:

 Smartwork volumes One and Two, + SmartFetch


Smartwork volume one
SmartFetch
Smartwork II

Smartwork for Retrievers volume one: Basics and Transition by Evan Graham
Detailed easy to follow instructions for retriever training, from puppies through Basics and early-to-mid transition. ILLUSTRATED by the author, this unique training text is designed for your use. It is SPIRAL BOUND so you can leave it open to the section or diagram you are working on without breaking down the binding. LAMINATED COVERS help to protect it from the elements. There are NOTE PAGES with each diagram to help you track your dogs progress. Also included is a comprehensive GLOSSARY OF TERMS to help you to get acquainted with the language of dog training.

REVIEWED AND ENDORSED BY:

The Retriever Journal. See review in this spring's "SPECIAL PUPPIES ISSUE", page 65.

"...an informative book with a nifty design,...Smartwork is filled with the kind of information you'd expect from a retired professional dog trainer...laying down a good philosophy that usually gets glossed over in some books, but something that Evan puts first and foremost in his."
~Jake Smith
Managing Editor

Send $24.95 USA ($38.95 Canada) plus $5.00 S&H to: Rush Creek Press PO Box 680 Liberty, Mo. 64069

AND NOW!!!: Smartwork II: Secrets of the Pros.

Finishing your retriever the ways the pros do it. Late transition through advanced, plus troubleshooting the fully trained retriever. Everything you always wanted to know about dog training, but were afraid to ask!

$33.95 plus $5.00 S&H

SmartFetch The definitive text on force fetching retrievers and all gun dogs. There is no other source for force fetching information nearly so detailed!

$20.95 plus $5.00 S&H

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NOTE: All books must be purchased through our distributors as part of an agreement with our printer. We only sell books at our seminars; not through our website. Thank you.

Our distributors:


Order Books direct from
 COPY COW PRESS by mail,
OR BY
TOLL FREE PHONE NUMBER 1-800-624-6378 to:

~Copy Cow Press~
Steve Snell
P.O. Box 80133
Starkville, MS 39759
1-800-624-6378

or...online from our distributors:


 

WATER DOG SUPPLY

www.hcwaterdogsupply.com

and

Books are also available through  or...

 Click This Banner To Visit Our Sponsor 
and
 

 


GUN DOG SUPPLY
Free Training articles at GDS
Southwind Outfitters
Preferred Links
Next Level Retrievers/Wayne Dibbley
Doc E's Dog Nutriceuticals
Refuge Gun Dog Forum
RTF training forum
OZARK MOUNTAIN LANYARDS
Alabama Ducks Gun Dog Forum
The complete training system for working retrievers!

Smartwork is a system I developed over thirty years, and is presented in a multimedia format to provide the premier learning tool for aspiring trainers. The three books, Smartwork for Retrievers volume one; Basics and Transition - Smartwork II, Secrets of the Pros - and SmartFetch, consitute the full system.

However, to allow ease of learning and a fuller understanding of the material, we provide a growing collection of DVD modules of the system. Each DVD module offers the most detailed and graphically illustrated explanation of the steps of development for your retriever available anywhere! We include all the sequential steps and tips you'll need to do your own training with your dog, and to develop him or her to the highest level you desire.

In addition to this, in future DVD productions we will be presenting even more instruction beyond that which is contained in our books. Handling, marking, practical hunting applications, and competition-based instruction are all proposed for future productions.

The cost of each item has been kept at an affordable level to allow you to expand your library of information at your own pace, while giving you the information you need to enjoy the pride of having done it yourself! This will continue to be our commitment to you.

NOTE: Because it is important to me that my system be presented as it is intended to be used, we shoot all our own video, and do all our own editing and DVD production. No non-dog trainers participate in this process, and that has allowed each presentation to be geared toward the trainer exclusively. No aspect of our information has been watered down, modified, or omitted because of production concerns. Every effort has been made to assure that this program is enjoyable to watch, while sparing no effort to provide extensively detailed instruction.

Evan Graham
author/producer

  ___________________________________________________________________________________________


Rush Creek Press
PO Box 680
Liberty, MO 64069  
816-213-9397
  
 
rushcreekpress@aol.com

Copyright © 2009 Evan Graham LLC. All Rights Reserved.