Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

April 2026

OB130: TEAM Sports Foundations Level One

Have big obedience dreams, or want to dip your toe in and give obedience a try? This class will give you an excellent set of foundation skills for AKC, CKC, FCI obedience, or freestyle and it will help you prepare t...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

OB385: Precision Without Pressure: Achieving Accuracy and Joy

Train for precision without losing the joy that makes your dog want to work. Are you ready to improve your dog’s precision without losing the confidence, attitude, and joy that make them want to work? Precision Wit...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

OB425: From TEAM to Trials: Building Skills & Chains for the Open Ring

Obedience can be fun!! Even if you are just starting your journey and think that getting past novice sounds like a pipedream, you want to start this class! Get unstuck from the tedious stuff in novice an...

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 2026

OB315: Balancing Motivation & Precision

Dog training is like balancing on a tightrope. We want our dogs to be happy, engaged and motivated. Yet we also need precision which often leads to a loss of enthusiasm. It’s a delicate dance. Once dogs have learned...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB335: Gloves and Go-Outs!

Do you dream of doing fancy obedience work someday? No need to wait until you’ve slogged through novice! We can start splitting down the parts for even the most advanced exercises right fro...

Laura Waudby(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 2026

OB215: Competition Heeling Part One - Fundamentals

Great heeling is a pleasure to watch. Dog and handler moving together as one. The dog is happy, animated, joyful and confident. Heeling is a dance that should express joy and teamwork. How do you accomplish th...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB340: Strike a Pose: Fabulous Positions!

You enter your sport ring/field, dog heeling by your side. When the exercise comes, you leave them on a specific position and walk away. You cue each position change, and your dog executes them perfectly with paws s...

Shade Whitesel(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)

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)

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...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

OB800: Mondioring OB: All-Breed Obedience

Mondioring Obedience is a fun new obedience venue catered to all breeds! Based on real-life challenges and working under distraction, Mondioring takes familiar obedience exercises to a new level. With the devel...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

October 2026

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)

OB370: Reliable Retrieves

This class will cover all of the pieces needed to train a reliable obedience retrieve. We will begin by teaching each piece of the behavior chain including the hold and front position. Then we will work to put the p...