Novice Obedience: From TEAM to Trials

This class will teach you how to take your TEAM foundations skills in levels 1 & 2 and use those to create the full exercises used in trials.  We will be looking specifically at the exercises at the novice level in most organizations and will also touch on the ring preparation skills that you didn’t know you needed to train for! 

You don't need to be close to trialing to take this class!  In fact I highly recommend taking this very early on in your dog's training career!  But if you're already trialing, you'll get lots of good support for improving your trial experience. 

It is designed for a wide range of students: 

• Do you feel lost in knowing how to progress from small individual behaviors to actually prepping for a trial? 

• Are you newer to obedience and have a bunch of skills with props, but aren't sure how to progress it to look like actual heeling or reliable fronts?

• Do you need some accountability in pulling in all the stuff you've learned in different classes together?

This class is also not a "heeling" class (actually there are still 11 whole heeling lectures!) but it goes heavily into how to progress heeling from pivots to actual heeling! We don't look at the individual skills of heeling (about turns, pace changes..) as much as looking at how to keep focus and joy and balance that with our precision training!

This class also welcomes more advanced students who may already have a novice title and are looking to either cleanup their "skills" of heeling, fronts, and finishes, or need more work on those "ring prep" pieces of all the stuff that happens before and after each exercise!

You do not need to have taken the TEAM 1 or 2 classes, but please look at the prereqs if you want to join as gold.

Put Jan 22nd on your calender to get a working spot when registration opens! Class starts February 1st!

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