Brilliantly stated. As a trainer who tries to avoid physical corrections as much as possible it feels so great to hear people I look up to and learn from say what you've been thinking.

You reminded me of an interesting thing that happened while training one of my dogs, I let my son use the control for the e collar for 2 weeks on a dead collar and the dog was always compliant because he had the confidence of being able to correct event when the device was dead.