Online Classes:

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Novice Scent (dogs are on odor already, designed to follow "Intro to Scent" )

Beginning Competition (NW1/NW2/Novice/Advanced/Excellent)

Upper-Level Competition (Unknown # Hides & Upper Skills)

45 participants, cost: $130 (6 weeks)​

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Online only: Unlimited questions and video feedback.

You will be given a lecture and assignments each week.

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Session 3 - 2023 In-Person classes:

Beginning Competition (Novice/NW1/Advanced/NW2)

Competitive Push (NW3/Excellent/Master/Elite/Detective)

5 people per class, In Person

(FULL)

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​Payment is due by the first day of class to reserve your place in class.

Material presented in class builds on the previous week. Missed classes are not credited forward. 

No refunds or make-up classes if you have to miss a week.

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CLASSES

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Novice Scent - Online Only

Who: You've started competing or have trained to the level that you can, this class is for you! Dogs should be confidently searching birch (or more!) in various different environments and have done container and area searches.

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What you can expect: We will be working on reading your dog, building more confident alerts, and learning how to handle. Each week your dog will be working on different skill-building puzzles while we get to work on your own skills in handling and reading your dog.  Topics include:

• Cleaning/creating communication at the odor source

• Buried Hides (AKC)

• Expectations & Assumptions

• Handling

• Containers

• Multiple hides (finding UNFOUND odor)

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Classes start on May 1st (lecture posted Monday, live lecture Tuesday), and go for 6 consecutive weeks

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Live online lecture (attendance optional, meeting is recorded): Tuesday evenings at 5:15pm

(No "In-Person" classes)

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Beginning Competition - Online (& In-Person)

This class is designed for teams that have just started competing, competing for a little while, or have trained to the level that can start! Dogs should be confidently searching birch (or more) in various different environments and have done container and area searches. I have teams in this class that range from 16 weeks of classes to Competing in advanced AKC, NW2, and just starting in Excellent AKC. Topics include:

• Clearing areas (blank areas within a search)

• Presentations (how to get your dog to search something/somewhere)

• Inaccessible hides (intro to them and maintaining drive to source)

• Alerts & Cleaning up communication at source

• Handling (TBD topic)

• Games! Enjoying this awesome sport!

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All students in this class have access to the live lecture on Tuesdays at 6:00pm. The written lecture will be available for online students. Online students have access to unlimited video feedback through the forums. Videos must be uploaded to a person platform (youtube, vimeo, Gdrive for example), and the link shared in the forums. 

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In-Person class Schedule:

• Wednesday 8am (Excellent Level) - FULL

• Wednesday 10:20am - FULL

• Thursday 6pm - FULL

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Competitive Push - Online (& In-Person)

This class is designed for teams that are working with an unknown number of hides and focusing on scent puzzles and handling required to succeed in AKC Master/Detective or NACSW NW3/Elite. Topics include:

• Blank Areas and Blank Searches

• Presentations (how to get your dog to search something/somewhere without false alerts)

• How to read dog at source for inaccessible hides

• Video Review - breaking down your videos to find training goals

• Handling (TBD topic)

• Games! Enjoying this awesome sport!

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All students in this class have access to the live lecture on Tuesdays at 7:00pm. The written lecture will be available for online students. Online students have access to unlimited video feedback through the forums. Videos must be uploaded to a person platform (youtube, vimeo, Gdrive for example), and the link shared in the forums.

 

In-Person class Schedule:

• Wednesday 9:10am - FULL

• Wednesday 11:30am - FULL

• Wednesday 6:00pm -  FULL

• Wednesday 7:10pm - FULL

• Thursday 8:00am - FULL

• Thursday 9:10am - FULL

• Thursday 7:10pm - (Possibly 1 spot open)

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Private 1-on-1 Services

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1-week of unlimited Private Coaching OR One-hour private online zoom session ($50)

• Any Topic​

• Exchanged videos through any platform that works for you (youtube videos, Gdrive, private Facebook group)

• Build a training plan specialized for YOUR team. 

  • We will create an action list (checklists!) of things you can work on to improve your weaknesses​

  • I will have different setups and exercises that you can do to target these skills​

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Zoom 1-on-1 room available to discuss or do live feedback (used for the 1-hour option). (contact me to arrange meeting time, the schedule in online booking is not updated with all my schedule)​

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1-week coaching: You have one week to work on assignments, we will go back and forth throughout the week to target specific skills. We will need a platform to share videos, this can be a facebook group, messenger, youtube playlist & email, or anything else that works for you! Videos are too large to email back and forth, so we will need some sort of platform to share them.

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In-Person Private Lessons - ($65 - 1 hour)

• Please contact me for availability - Currently booking at least 1 month out.

• The location could be my home or a nearby park or space, depending on my schedule and topics needed to be worked.

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