 bark and hold in protection. So I'm working with my dog in protection for a while now but we had the misfortune of changing several places to train which is not advisable but we kind of were forced to do that and so right now my dog is a little bit confused on what he's supposed to do and bark and hold and so he usually comes in he's thinking he needs to bite and then the bite is not given and what usually decoys or helpers do in the in the club is that they try to use the pinch and force the dog to stop kind of biting which with my dog did not work I don't use pinch to begin with but they try to pull the dog back and for him it's just an obstacle and he's trying to break through it much harder and so he hits a lot harder and so it gives me a clear sign of the fact that the dog does not understand what he's supposed to do and so I've decided to fix it on my own at home and we'll see how it works but I want to clearly explain to my dog then there is a command and for that command you bark and there is a command when you bite and so there are two distinct commands for him and how I set it up and so I want him to learn those commands at home with a lot higher drive and a lot more control on my end rather than do it with the helper in the club so let's see how this works I've done this once before with him already so he sort of figured out but you'll see how we do this so hey you can see the excitement right and so I usually set him up and then I hold this and then when I give him the command he he does and then you'll see how how we do this hey enough enough enough enough sit bark bark bark he doesn't really want to bark at me because it's actually I don't let my dogs do it this come on so he's a little bit hesitant I and I reward him but I reward him only when he can give me a couple of solid barks in the rhythm so I don't reward if there is no rhythm and he'll get it pretty quickly so let's try again hey so you can see that he kind of he's getting it slowly come on so the reason why I have him sit and run up to me rather than be next to him is because that's where we have a problem at the field with the helpers because when he's running he's running for the bite or he doesn't know that he needs to bark so that's what I'm working on with him that's the reason why no let's good boy so as you can see you figured out pretty quickly though it's our second session first session he was not sure what to do and so you can see that he's giving me solid barks he kind of got into the rhythm and he likes this exercise and so I hope if you have the same issue as me and you need to clean your dog from holding bark in a neck in holding bark exercise I hope this will help you happy training