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 |
Puppy “Proprioception”
10 working spots |
Introducing Distance
Work
8 working spots
|
Geared towards puppies, young dogs and/or
dogs that cannot find their rear end without a GPS. In other
words, to build balance and coordination, as well as simple
flat work to build on your foundation training.
You will be required to bring props.
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This workshop will cover the basic teaching
principles for distance – concepts such as “go
on”, “get out” – as well as touch
on obstacle discrimination and verbal directions.
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Saturday
May 1
|
Can You
Handle It? And Masters Mini Trial
All Day: 15 working spots
|
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 couses with us, evaluate our Q runs and offer
strategy for a second non-Q run.
We will be running 4 sanctioned masters level AAC courses
– three Challenge and one Jumpers. |
Working spots include trial entries.
Course walk-throughs and after-run analysis exercises are
part and parcel of the workshop.
This is an extremely limited trial. A handful of non-workshop
entries may be accepted but will not receive individual analysis. |
| Sunday
May 2 |
Back to Basics
8 working spots |
Tighter Turns
8 working spots |
| This workshop will take you back to the basics
of the front and rear crosses. It is always important to return
to basics to brush up on the simple things we take for granted.
It is the basics that fall apart as we add new and different
twists to our handling styles. This is open to all levels of
dogs. |
Would you like to shave a few precious yards
(ie: seconds) off your course? This workshop will help you find
places where you can tighten up your turns – off contacts,
from weave poles, using front or rear crosses. It is all about
timing, where to be and why and some simple verbal skills. |
| Monday
May 3 |
Exercises to Jump
By
8 working spots |
Handling the Front
Cross
8 working spots
|
Open to all dogs, at least 16 months of age,
that have some understanding of jumping. A series of single
jump and multi-jump exercises to help improve your dog's jumping
ability and understanding of their job performance.
|
Focus will be on improving your timing and execution
of the FC. It is recommended that participants have worked with
Terry before or are at the advanced level of competition. |
We are accepting names for waiting lists for workshops
marked Full.
Half-Day Workshops
$120/1 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 17, 2009.
Mail to:
Training Troop
c/o Cindy Swiney
Box 21, Site 4, RR 1
Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0
- After April 17, 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, 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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