Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

February 2025

OB135: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two

This class continues on with the foundations begun in TEAM 1! This class is designed to cover all the exercises in the TEAM Level 2. The TEAM program systematically lays out the building blocks for develo...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

OB225: Competition Heeling Part Two - Skills & Engagement

Heeling requires significant concentration and sustained focus to maintain position, focal point and engagement. Heeling is easily the most difficult obedience exercise. When trained properly, it is a bea...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Novice Ring

Have you been dabbling in obedience but hesitant to actually take it to the next level? Or maybe you even trialed and realized your dog doesn't know how to heel unless you have a treat in your hand or can talk...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB320: Obedience Starter Games

This class is a "prequel" to the popular OB330 Obedience Games class (now in self study). This is not a skills class but designed to present many short, fun, and fast paced games for beginner competition o...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

OB375: Enhanced Engagement - Building Competition Skills

Most dogs know how to do the exercises. They even have a foundation in engagement. But when they compete, things often fall apart. Competition requires another level of engagement. Dogs must maintain engagement whil...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB600: Healing Your Heeling Handling

This course is designed for experienced handlers as well as new obedience handlers that know nothing about the finer points of handling during heeling in obedience. Dogs make mistakes in heeling when they are not p...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

April 2025

OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One

Interested in obedience or rally? This isn't a class full of heeling around in circles. Learn about using foot targets, fancy pivoting, teach scent articles, an independent back up, and start a go out! ...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB335: Gloves and Go-Outs!

Instructor: Laura Waudby

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB460: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Foundations

Do you have “heeling envy”? Do you see all those prancing dogs in perfect position looking up at their handlers and wish you could teach your dog THAT? Does your dog love the pivot platform, but how DO you get from ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

OB480: Train to Trial

How do I get the same performance in training and in the ring? That is one of the most common challenges in competitive sports. It is something everyone struggles with. “My dog ONLY does that in th...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB485: Step it Up: Advanced Heeling for Competition

In this class we will be challenging the dog AND handler to step up their game! We will use fun games to build and maintain drive, engagement and precision. When heeling is well-trained, the majority of points lost ...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

June 2025

OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling

Does the thought of teaching heeling leave you feeling overwhelmed? Not sure where to start? Maybe your dog is stuck on the bowl? This class will get you off the bowl and moving forward! If you jus...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

OB355: Open Foundation Fun!

Open Obedience Foundation Fun! It’s time to move away from thinking of obedience as serious. An open run is really just a long chain of pet tricks! Breaking the exercises into small pieces and teaching each p...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB430: Maintaining Engagement at Distance

We often have to leave our dogs in the obedience ring. They need to work at a distance from us in spite of pressure from the judge, the environment and the ring gates. We have no connection with them, th...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB462: Shaping a Confident and Flashy Heel-Moving Foundations

Fancy, flashy, free, prancing, head up heeling! Want it? You've come to the right class. Got forging, vocalizing, crabbing instead? You've come to the right class too! (make sure you grab that first class as well, ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

August 2025

OB305: Fronts & Finishes: From Foundations to Fabulous!

There are lots of fronts and finishes in obedience! Fronts and finishes are incredibly complicated. They consist of many pieces that all need to come together. Because they are so difficult, the error ratio te...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

October 2025

OB380: Unstick the Stuck Heeling: What's Keeping you from Trialing?

Are you and your dog struggling with heeling? Do you and your dog have nice heeling when you train, but the performance falls apart when you leave the comfort of home? Have you been stuck with the same problem for a...