Ivan Barabanov

Maybe you can give some good advice.

Maybe I will get confused.

There's got to be a little bit more of a follow-up, some kind of consistency.

Yeah, this was... I mean, it is the best way to do it, really.

Like, I didn't have much opportunity because... Well, once I, you know, I had to... I escaped from Bulgaria because it was communism at the time.

And in Belgium, I went just straight into Belgian ring because I was already interested in the Malinois.

And...

Once I came to the States, it was just so difficult for me.

And that was before social media.

So we had this one magazine, Dog Sport, and that's kind of, you know, it was a monthly edition and that's where you hear scores or competition, but it kind of, you hear about them after the fact.

So it was very difficult for me to, you know,

to find where to go.

Like the young generation now, it's so fortunate in so many ways because of access and because of, I mean, how easy it is to communicate with anybody you want to, you know?

It's just so, so cool.

What is your, as a judge, where do you stand

Like, what do you make of where IGP is now?

What is the direction where we are going?

Like, specifically thinking about the rules, you know, sometimes we change it this way, but then we see that it's not quite the right thing, we retract it, we go back to what it was.

But there is, of course, constantly some search to improve

My question is, what are we trying to improve?