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Hey guys, any advice you have would be helpful...

I am fairly new into Brad's training, I am reading the E-Book and working with umbilical. My problem right now is, when I am walking my dog Molson (he is a 4 year old border collie X), and my boyfriend and our other dog, Molson's attention is mainly on my boyfriend, he does pay attention to me and look back often but I find myself having to turn quickly or run ect.. to get him back to focus on me and I end up stepping on him a lot. When it is just myself and Molson he is wonderful, I barely have to correct him and he is always focused on me even when other people are walking past. He still has dog issues but that is a work in progress
Has anyone had any similar experiences? I know it will take time, patience and hard work but I am just wondering if anyone has any tips or things that worked for them in this kind of scenerio.
I did the pinning excersize yesterday - it was just myself and molson and he was excellent, no fight put up whatsoever. I did it today with my boyfriend around and I had to fight and fight and fight, I think i was doing it for a good half hour before he started to give in and just relax about it.
He has definately improved, when we used to go for walks before this training he was constantly pulling me and wouldn't even pay attention to me no matter how hard I tried.
I am waiting to get into some of brad's training classes so I can get proper guidence but until then I would appreciate anyones advice or similar experiences would be great!!

I can relate to your problem. When i walk with my 3 yr old lab alone, he does really well, walks beside me, runs just behind me, its wonderful. When my husband and i take him together, he pulls, and i try to turn around quickly, and he just looks at my husband and where he's walking instead of spinning around and walking the other way with me. Instead i end up doing more karate chops of the leash, and hip tugs to get him to pay attention to me. I also take a step away and do some trees or posts to get his attention back on me.
When my husband does the class with him on his waist, the dog is always looking for me (he's a momma's boy), and i have to almost hide to get him to pay attention, even though he usually does better with my husband doing umbilical.
We are 3 weeks into the street safety training also, and we were told that we shouldn't need to do the pinning technique, and that Brad doesn't really teach that in class anymore. We haven't had issues of dominance at our house that have needed that but, we do other things that show dominance like going through doors and up the stairs first, controlling when and where the dog gets fed, and keeping them off the furniture.
Hope that helps.

Yes I also do those other dominance things, our dogs are not allowed on the furniture so Ive never had to deal with that. I also do not allow them to have free range of their toys or bones. Everything is mine and I only let them borrow it or have it in the case of food.
I think I am just going to have to keep working hard and stay determined, I was just hoping there would be some other techniques I could use.

This is what we've found:

When you are out walking with your dog and YOU are in command, as your husband/boyfriend to follow YOU like a dog in the pack !
Make sure he doesn't get ahead of you.
When you stop. He stops.
When you turn around . He turns around.
Make him watch you.
The dog should start to do the same.

We had the same issues with our dog.
It didn't matter which one of us was actually walking him, it just seemed that when it was the 3 of us, Keymo thought it was more of a game.
This helped us. Try it with both of you actually having him on umbilical on different walks. This way he should learn to pay attention to whomever is "holding" the leash .

Good luck.