Loki Board and Train day 4

This boy is so goofy. We had a good time today. We took a long walk today in the nice weather and had a good group of work outs. He is starting off leash (using a long line) and his biggest problem is when he gets frightened. Any time he purposely ignores a command or purposely does the opposite of what I asked him to do he immediately acts frightened and then tries to run. I correct him for this and then have to build him back up with some confidence building work. He is also still shaky on the recall. There is a great deal of inner turmoil going on between his longing to want to do the right thing and get some praise and wanting to run in the opposite direction and make me chase him. We aren't going to try true off leash until I can trust him to come back routinely.
Tomorrow we are going to do more long line work and work on the Come command.
Today Loki discovered the Kong Wubba toy. He spent 10 minutes tossing it to himself, "killing it," and play bowing and barking at it. He is such a funny boy.