Training
Troop Presents Kathy Keats
March
26 to 28, 2010.
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 (#9 of the Friday series)
- 8:00 am to 12:00 noon
- 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Saturday Weekend coaching series (#10 of the weekend series)
- 8:00 am to 12:00 noon – Training Troop
- 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Civilians
Sunday Weekend coaching series (#10 of the weekend series)
- 8:00 am to 12:00 noon – Civilians
- 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm – Training Troop
Please contact Cindy
Swiney by January 31 to confirm your spot. Your
cheque is the only thing which guarantees your spot. The full amount
is due by February 15, 2009.
Next Kathy Keats Seminar
November 26 (Friday session) and November 27-28 (weekend session),
2010.
Training
Troop Presents Terry Simons
April
30 to May 3, 2010.
| Day |
Morning
8 am – 12 noon |
Afternoon
1 pm – 5 pm |
| Friday
April 30 |
Serpentine Savvy
8 working spots |
Young Dog and Basic
Handling Drills.
8 working spots
|
For the advanced handler; emphasis will be
on getting down the line for serpentines and front crosses.
Also: fine tuning of front crosses, touching upon the differences
for push- and pull-throughs.
|
Emphasis on helping the young dog discover
and execute basic patterns (such as front and rear crosses).
Also, creating more reliable cues for the handler in the development
of their handling skills |
Saturday
May 1 |
Turn Tactics
8 working spots
|
Course Analysis and
Breakdown
8 working spots
|
Knowing where a tight turn is the best option
and where a wide turn will give a better path.
How to tighten turns to make better time and/or cut yardage.
Determining the turn that will set a better line and shave
time.
|
Course work for those who are competing (or
ready to compete) but not yet at the CHYI level.
Courses will be set up and handlers will walk the course
and run it as if for competition.
Terry and handlers will then analyze the course(s) and the
problem sequences will be broken down into drills.
After working the drills, the course will be rerun, incorporating
the drill work to better the first run. |
| Sunday
May 2 |
Can You Handle It? And Masters
Mini Trial
All Day: 15 working spots and judges
Dogs eligible to run Masters Challenge (ie: competing in
masters standard) will be given priority for the working
spots. Only handlers that have a working spot may run other
dogs in the trial.
Working spots include trial entries. Course walk-throughs
and after-run analysis exercises are part and parcel of
the workshop.
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
or may be running at the advanced level and have taken at
least 2 handling workshops from Terry previously.
These will be difficult courses.
|
WHAT?
Focus will be on timing, course analysis, and crosses. Terry
will walk our courses with us, evaluate our sanctioned runs
and offer strategy for a second non-sanctioned run.
We will be running 4 sanctioned masters level AAC courses
– three Challenge and one Jumpers. |
| Monday
May 3 |
A Visual Language
8 working spots |
Handling Behind
the Line
8 working spots
|
Jumping patterns, drills and exercises to
help build a visual language between handler and dog with
respect to equipment
In particular, such things as recognizing the back side
of a jump for 270s and 180s
Dogs should be comfortable jumping their competition height
and be able to sequence 3-4 jumps
|
Distance work will depend on demand
If mostly experienced people/dogs register, we will work
on various gamble scenarios
If mostly new handlers/dogs register, we will work on the
basics of distance and discrimination.
If an equal mix, we will work on distance & discrimination
drills and then apply them to gamble situations |
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?" One Day Clinic
$200
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 19, 2010.
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 10, 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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