The Upland Disciple Podcast

My vision for the Upland Disciple Podcast is to bring you face to face with some of the best bird dog trainers in the world, diving in to their methods, styles, tips, tricks, and tools to help make you a better dog trainer and assist in the overall develop of your bird dog!Each episode will highlight a different trainer or method OR will have an understudy who has used a method who will share his or her story of training bird dogs in the way of the greats! I hope all of us can take at least a small nugget of training goodness away from each and every episode!Happy trialing and hunting friends!

The Upland Disciple Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by Josh Ruiter, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Josh Ruiter hosts The Upland Disciple Podcast, a sports show with 47 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  Summer Shorts - Conditioning

  Mar 5, 20262h 22mS3

  <p>Welcome back to the final episode of the summer shorts/season longs series with us on the Upland Disciple Podcast. In the final episode we dive deep into dog conditioning and all that goes along with that. We cover roading, free running (how they are best done as complementary parts of one whole program), swimming, nutrition, supplements, heat, and how to work on mental endurance in fatigue through training while conditioning. It is really a great conversation, and one that often gets overlooked or underutilized as we await next years opener, letting Fido chill on the couch and hope...

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  Episode #10

  Summer Shorts - Handling

  Jan 8, 20261h 56mS3

  <p>Welcome back to episode 10 of season 3 at the Upland Disciple Podcast. We continue on with our summer shorts series this week, diving in to the topic of handling. An often under discussed and under appreciated part of bird dog development and hunting/trialing is the working together of dog and handler in the field. This doesn't just mean following your dog around the field but being able to cast your dog, bend them in the field from objective to objective or cover to cover. It means not hacking at your dog but communicating with them via cues, body language...

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  Episode #9

  Summer Shorts - Honoring/Backing

  Dec 1, 20251h 33mS3

  <p>Welcome back to episode 9 of the Summer Shorts series. This week we take a deep dive with our four Pro Trainers into the topic of Honoring or Backing. Whether for safety, etiquette, or more birds in the bag, honoring is one of most important skills we can teach our dogs. Nobody wants to hunt with the guy whose dogs blow up everyone else's points! As we dive into the four different methods, you will find a baseline of similarity in the desired outcome, with unique approaches on how to train honoring. Some use launchers, others throw birds. Some use...

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  Episode #8

  Summer Shorts - The Retrieve

  Nov 10, 20251h 53mS3

  <p>Welcome back to the 8th installment of the summer shorts series!! In this episode we dive deep into the trained retrieve. We discuss shaping a natural retrieve, when to train the retrieve in the dogs development, and a number of "fixes" for a poor or lacking retrieve. The 4 pros give us 4 different takes on the retrieve training process, all with their own unique twists, YET with many similar philosopical and foundational elements brought back from puppy development! Buckle up and enjoy another episode with us!!</p>

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  Episode #7

  Summer Shorts - Heel & Recall

  Oct 21, 20251h 58mS3

  <p>Welcome back to the 7th installment of the "Summer Shorts" series, which Jake correctly renamed the "Season Long" series in jest. In this episode we dive back in with our four pro trainers/methods to discuss Recall & Heel. This is an incredibly fun dive with some similarities (such as going back to foundational training to teach a new command) as well some uniqueness from each method. From method to timing and philosophical approach these 4 trainers/methods have much to offer and consider as you look at your process of development your bird dog. When should I teach recall? When...

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