Good for you, I think any training helps build a bond All I would say is that I have trained lots of breeds professionlly and although my experience with ridgebacks is limited to half a dozen they were all slightly stubborn (using a variety of methods) and a couple were temperamentaly unsound and couldn't be trusted around people.
I wouldn't say that the breed is near the inteligence level of the usual suspects, collies, labs, shepherds etc. If you are interested in canine inteligence testing there is a well written book by Cohen
Now as I have posted in the past I have a terrier but