SEMINARS and WORKSHOPS
Each year we sponsor several seminars by well known trainers as well as hold workshops on specific skills for sports, fitness and health. Our goal is to help our students and instructors perfect skills as they grow in the careers in dogs. Workshops typically are 2 to 4 hours long and are concentrated training in a specific subject like utility articles, weave poles, or canine conditioning. Seminars are longer more diverse training opportunities with a guest speaker in a specific sport or discipline and typically last for several days.
Check out the workshop and seminars below and let us know if there's a trainer you'd like to us to invite for a seminar or a topic for a workshop we should cover.
COURSE WALKING AND STRATEGY
Have trouble remembering courses? Do you come off the course thinking I wish I'd done that differently and wishing there were "do-overs"? Frustrated by too many 1 mistake/NQ runs?
This seminar will focus on helping you develop course walking skills. It will help you analyze a course, analyze your skills and your dog's skills plus learn to apply them more efficiently. You'll learn when to lead out and when run off the line, when to do a back cross instead of a front and learn tricks and tips to remember technical courses.
Seminar is open to 10 dog/handler teams and unlimited auditors. Dogs must be reliable off lead, have manners and know all obstacles. Dog/Handler teams will walk courses and run them, then figure out what worked and what didn't and why. Come join the fun! $30/dog handler team $15/Auditors
K9 FITNESS FUNDAMENTALS
Whether your dog competes in agility, conformation, obedience, flyball, dock diving and more. Injury prevention for the canine athlete starts here! Discover the secrets of canine conditioning in a fun, easy and effective way. Target the iliopsoas muscle to enhance your dog’s core strength, agility, and stability. Improve strength, flexibility and balance plus reduce the risk for injuries. In as little as 10 minutes per day.
Learn how to warm up and cool down your dog correctly. How to feed for performance and so much more. 12 dog/handler teams $30 Unlimited Auditors $15
CANINE FIRST AID for OWNERS
Back by popular demand. This workshop is for every owner who would like to be more prepared to handle minor issues with their dogs at home or while traveling. Learn what you should have in your First Aid Kit, when to call the Vet or go to the ER and when you can handle a basic treatment yourself. Workshop we be taught by medical professionals. Learn basic first aid, canine CPR, and develop your disaster and evacuation check list now before you need it. Workshop will run from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Workshop Fee: $30
CONTACTS WORKSHOP
Agility dogs need to have clean, consistent and fast contacts. This workshop will assess your dog's skills and build on them to get a positioned as well as a running contact on all three contact obstacles. Bring your dog's favorite treats, toys and ball. Workshop runs from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Limit 12 working teams. Auditors unlimited. Prerequisite: Off lead reliability. Workshop Fee: Teams $30 Auditors: $15
INTRODUCTION TO FRIZGILITY
Do you own a manic retriever? Is your dog disc obsessed? A committed tunnel sucker? Then you need to learn about this fun blend of agility and disc/retrieving sports. Learn the basic skills, rules and strategy needed to get started in Frizgility. Can't catch a disc? No problem, we'll teach you how to roll and throw one. Even dogs who don't catch can play.
There will be two sessions. Handlers and dogs will be divided by skill level and work in one session and audit the other. Working Teams: $45 (includes audit of other session) Audit only $15/session.
Session 1 - 9:00 a.m. to noon is for beginning dogs to learn to catch a disc, do the equipment and understand the rules and skills needed Limit 8 teams.
Session 2 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. is for advanced dogs that catch discs, have agility skills and want to get ready to compete. Limit 12 teams.
Seminars are usually limited to 10-12 working teams and unlimited auditors.
Workshops vary but typically have more than one instructor. Dogs and handlers get concentrated work on a specific topic like Jumps, Weaves, Article Discrimination, etc.
Check above for any prerequisites and/or limits on dog handler teams.