Training
Troop Presents Kathy Keats
March
25 through 27, 2011: #12
November 25 through 27, 2011:
#13
Agility
Coaching Seminar Series.
Goal
Whether you are aiming for the Nationals or the Worlds, or if you
just want to improve your Q ratio at local trials, join us in our
ongoing Coaching Series with Kathy Keats.
Kathy Keats
Kathy Keats, one of the prominent Canadian agility handlers and
trainers, provides international level coaching on a regular basis
(twice a year) that helps bring out the best handling system for
you and your dog. With a background in kinesiology, she has a keen
eye for those little things that can improve how you and your dog
work together. There is no perfect handling system – whether
you run NADAC, AAC, USDAA, CKC, AKC or any other agility organization
– there is only YOUR handling and training system and Kathy
helps you improve on it.
This coaching series is geared for (but not restricted to) those
handlers and dogs with competition experience. The handler will
get more out of this seminar if the dog knows the equipment and
is capable of complex agility sequences. Over the last four years,
Kathy has had us working on drills and skills – skills that
up until last year we’ve been practicing and reviewing at
each seminar. We have now progressed so that we no longer just review
them, we are now working on the complex course sequences where we
would put the skills to use and Kathy films the runs to show us
where we can improve.
If you are new to the series, you should be familiar with front
and rear crosses, basic agility patterns (such as 180s, 270s, serpentines,
pinwheels, boxes, etc.) and obstacle performance standards. If you
would like to catch up to where the rest of the regular participants
are, Kathy has an online training program that provides you with
weekly exercises and training feedback. Please check out the Agility
Distance Education Program at Boywood Dogs for further
information.
Costs
- A working spot is 8 hours (all day Friday or split over Sat/Sun).
- The cost of the seminar is $165/working spot.
- To encourage as many handlers as possible, we ask each handler
to try to limit themselves to one working spot. However, the costs
of the seminar must be covered to continue bringing Kathy back
so if handlers would like more than one working spot (if available),
the cost of each additional working spot will be $150.
- Priority will be given to previous session attendees, past
auditors, and new participants, in that order.
- Auditing: $15/half-day session, $25/Friday session or $50 for
all 3 “civilian” sessions (Friday, Saturday afternoon,
Sunday morning)
Tentative
Schedule
Friday Coaching Series
- 8:00 am to 12:00 noon
- 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Saturday Weekend coaching series
- 8:00 am to 12:00 noon – Training Troop
- 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Civilians
Sunday Weekend coaching series
- 8:00 am to 12:00 noon – Civilians
- 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm – Training Troop
Please contact Cindy
Swiney by October 15 to confirm your spot. Your
cheque is the only thing which guarantees your spot. The full amount
is due by October 30, 2010..
Next Kathy Keats Seminar
Early spring, 2011.
Training
Troop Presents Terry Simons
2011
dates: April 29-May 2.
| Day |
Morning
8 am – 12 noon |
Afternoon
1 pm – 5 pm |
| Friday
April 29 |
Introduction to Trialing
8 working spots |
A-Frame/Dogwalk
& Tunnel
Discriminations
8 working spots
|
Are you just starting to trial with your dog?
Or considering entering your first trial? This workshop is
set up to give you some exposure to competition courses at
the starters level and sequencing exercises to help you &
your dog learn to run together.
|
Fast paced exercises to help with discrimination
of the contacts with a tunnel. This is a discrimination exercise,
not distance, although distance will be discussed. This is
not a contact exercise & dogs in this seminar should have
a good, solid understanding of contact performance. |
Saturday
April 30 |
Advanced Handling
8 working spots
|
Masters Serps &
More
8 working spots
|
Exercises and full courses to test your skills
and teamwork at the advanced level and/or higher. |
Basic serpentine exercises build as they (the
exercises) increase in difficulty, putting you in situations
you may not expect. |
| Sunday
May 1 |
Can You Handle It? And Masters
Mini Trial
All Day: 15 working spots and judges
Working spots include trial entries. Course walk-throughs
and after-run analysis exercises are part of the workshop.
This is an extremely limited trial. A handful of non-workshop
entries may be accepted.
For an entry form, please contact Cindy.
|
WHO?
A one-day workshop and AAC masters trial for handlers and
dogs that are currently at the masters level of competition.
|
WHAT?
Focus will be on timing, course analysis, and crosses.
We will be running 4 sanctioned masters level AAC courses
– three Challenge and one Jumpers. |
| Monday
May 2 |
Tighter & Tactical
Turns
8 working spots |
Masters Handling
International
8 working spots
|
Would you like to shave a few precious yards
(& seconds) off your course? Or set up a turn that will
show your dog their next line of obstacles? This workshop
will help you find places where you can tighten up your times
by using tighter turns or obvious lines.
|
The challenge of masters level handling with
the flair of international style. Creating exercises to test
your skill level and teamwork with your dog at a new and higher
level. |
We are accepting names for waiting lists for workshops
marked Full.
Half-Day Workshops
$125/1 workshop, $110 ea./2 workshops, $100 ea./3 or more
CAN YOU HANDLE IT? and MINI MASTERS TRIAL $200
Extremely Limited Entry Rules
- 15 working spots only – one working spot/handler (unless
the workshop does not fill) – priority given to masters
level dogs entering the workshop & trial.
- Workshop participants who have multiple masters dogs may enter
their other dogs in the trial portion.
Auditing
Unlimited: $15/workshop or $25/day.
Please contact Cindy
Swiney to confirm your spot. Your cheque is the
only thing which guarantees your spot.
Notes
- Contact us first to make sure there is room in the workshop(s)
you want.
- Cheques are made payable to Training Troop.
- Cheques need to be received and cleared by April 22, 2011.
Mail to:
Training Troop
c/o Cindy Swiney
Box 21, Site 4, RR 1
Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0
- After April 19, if you cannot make it as planned, full refunds
will be given only if your spot can be filled.
- Auditing fees are due upon your arrival. If you're attending
a workshop, feel free to add your auditing fees to your workshop
cheque.
- If a workshop is less than half full by April 19, a different
workshop may be offered, depending on demand. Registered participants
of the cancelled workshop will have the first option of keeping
a spot in the new workshop.
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