Simanovich, Flores, and Hoelcher 3 of my top 5 - Page 4

Yet another loaded topic.  Okay I'm on the East Coast and from NJ. In the last 5 years who has been on the cover of Sch. USA more times and on more national teams. Here are my choices Wallace Payne, T. FLoyd, Carlos Rojas, James Honda, My fifth spot I must mix betwen Mezroly(sp), Zappia, Banke and Burmer!
Kyle

Kyle, what I find funny is how little Mike Diehl is mentioned.

Bgstout,
                  I was born in Tulare California....
My family is French, and my step father and brother are
German. My Step father and brother became USA citizens
in 1986...My Uncle is French and lives in Belgium, but
has done alot of work on the west coast in wine grapes.

I would say my uncle is the best hundsman I have ever met.
He was my mentor....And my Step dad was also the one who
taught me.

Mike Diehl is on the UScA world comity...

I was very happy to see that..I think they now have a
well balanced group of people for future World Competition events.

If there is ever a website for old farts like me, I would have
it broken down into 3 groups for forum...One would be Law Enforcement
because they deserve a group to discuss the police canine alone.
This also is where I see the Czech, DDR GSD, and The Malinois as
very prominent. They are very, very good at police work.

To choose a good mentor is important,...but you will learn from the
bad ones to.

Wayne ownes the sire of my two girls and just trained and titled their mother this year.
I hear he is excellent!

These are my peer group, friends....They are outdated like
me....But do not feel sad for them or me. We still have our
knitting and daily walks.

I have a phone from Belgium. It's 
Ronny Van Den Berghe


Hi how are you?

Whats new?

I say...Ronny you and me are outdated now.

 Ronny says to me ...Really?...why do you say that?

 I say..There is a new breed now,.. I heard this on PDB.

I say...We are simply antiquated...get over yourself, you
are a dinosour from the old days. A throw back
to the paliolithic times.

Ronny says to me... why do you say that?.....I just won the 2010 WUSV


I say to Ronny..... Ya but that was months ago.

Ronny says who are the new breed of hundsman?

I say.... don't you ever go to PDB..( The professional Tool)

They are Sock Puppet, Beetree and Don Corlione.

They will have a beer with you, but they feel sad
because you  and the rest of us are simply stuck in
the passed. ( Glory Days)

Ronny says to me.....you stop drinking so much wine,
and stay off the Internet...

I said OK..........

Haha! Max, let me stop by Home Depot to buy some putty. I'll be by later to fill that chip in your shoulder. Who said anything about Ronny? Are you Ronny now? Is that who you are? I haven't talked about anyone but you. What I find puzzling is the fact that numerous people on here ask for training help and I don't know if I've ever read any posts from you other than to stroke other trainers, tell people how great a certain dog is, or to tell everyone who you have been in the same room with. Why would someone come on here and not share their vast training knowledge? But you are right. You are an elite person. I may train with a national and world champ every once in a great while, but you are probably good friends and mentor them. Oh, wait! I got Joe Blow on the phone...oops, was his voicemail.

Hey Max are you still in Italy???

Max,

If the only people you want to converse/reminisce call you on the phone, what is the point of coming here harassing me, one of the little people?

I think it is wonderful that you are so very famous and know all the other famous people. Too bad you make it so hard to tell who you really want to hang out with, I believed I could have had an interesting conversation with you once upon a time. It actually took me a while, but then I realized you can only respect one of your peers, a silly pet person like me brings nothing to your table. I've never felt sadness that you live in your glory days. I've felt sadness that you pretend to encourage (mentor) only to leave (them/me) with an insult.

I have no problem giving you whatever space your ego requires, Max, I'll refrain from mentioning your name and you can do the same for me.