Transparency
How We Record Every Session
Every Kai's Run session is filmed start to finish on two cameras, for one reason above all others - your dog's safety. The footage also lets you see the work and track real progress over the weeks.
Safety is the reason, not a feature
When you hand your dog to someone for conditioning work, you should be able to see exactly what happened - not a summary, and not my word for it. So the cameras roll on every session, every time. If a dog ever moves wrong or has an off day, the record exists and we both have it - footage you could take to your vet if you ever needed to. It also keeps me honest and makes me better: I review my own sessions and catch things on the screen I can miss live.
Why two angles
One camera lies to you. Point a single lens at a dog on the mill and you get a clean shot of the legs and the belt - and you miss the head, the ears, the tail, the tongue, the parts that actually tell you how the dog is doing. Two cameras, one on the gait and one on the whole animal, mean nobody is guessing.
The rig
Right now I run two AKASO Brave 4 action cameras on every session, and a third is on the way. After that, the plan is a 360 camera and a wearable for the handler's-eye view. I use action cameras on purpose - they sit in waterproof housings, hold a wide enough frame to keep the whole dog and the whole mill in shot, mount to almost anything, and are affordable enough to run in multiples without driving up the cost of a session. This is the first piece of a recording setup that will keep growing.
You can see the work
Fitness is hard to notice day to day - you live with your dog, so you miss the change. Line up week one against week five and you can watch it: the gait smooths out, the dog holds a working pace longer, it steps onto the mill like it owns the thing. The recording turns "he seems fitter" into something you can see. That is the point of doing this as structured, repeatable work instead of a random walk.
Your footage, your call
It is your dog and your driveway. Consent to record - video and the cameras' built-in audio - is spelled out in the session waiver before we start, because Florida is an all-party consent state for private conversations. Publishing anything with your dog in it publicly is a separate, opt-in yes. The default is that your footage stays private to you, and you can request clips or the fuller footage of your dog's sessions any time.
Building in the open
I am also documenting the journey of building Kai's Run. Some sessions become content that shows people what this work really looks like - always with your permission, never by default.
Book an intro session, or ask about the Founding Athlete Program to make conditioning a regular part of your dog's routine. Serving Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, and the Emerald Coast.
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