Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Janice Gunn - Making a Stand
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
The stand is a fundamental skill that is often overlooked, despite being present in ALL levels of competition obedience and mastering it is crucial for success.
I will cover all the stand variations required in competition obedience: the Novice Stand for Exam, the Open class Command Discrimination stand, the Open class Stand-Go-Get-Your-Leash exercise, the Utility class Moving Stand, and the Utility Signal Stand. This in-depth webinar will feature numerous video demonstrations to illustrate the teaching process. I will also discuss common mistakes that can lead to point deductions in the ring and offer strategies for perfecting your dog's stand to avoid losing valuable points.
One of our goals is to eliminate any forward motion or unnecessary movement during the stand. I will demonstrate how to achieve a flawless stand and teach you how to maintain handler focus when teaching the Stand for Exams, including Pre-Novice, Novice, and Moving Stand exercises. My proven methods have been successful in teaching dogs of all temperaments – from nervous and timid to overly friendly and excitable – to be comfortable with the stand. This webinar is suitable for handlers at all levels, both those who are just learning and those who need to improve the stands they already have. This is a webinar you don't want to miss!
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Chris Zink, DVM - Train Your Dog to Jump
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
The goal of jump training is to give your dog enjoyment, accuracy, and confidence in any situation where jumping is required, whether that is formal training and competition, or just jumping over logs on a hike or onto your couch in the evening. Yet so many dogs struggle with jumping.
In this webinar, Chris describes how to train your dog to jump, from the very foundational puppy work, to the most advanced world-class jumping venues. She discusses how dogs jump differently from horses, the mechanics of jumping, the myth of the bascule, and lots more important, step-by-step information to easily teach your dog to be a confident power jumper. Don't miss this information-packed webinar!
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Dante Camacho - Focused Heeling - Creating Your Dream Heeling One Step at a Time
Date: Thursday, March 13th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Heeling is to me the most beautiful of all obedience exercises, a combination of focus, intensity and precision.
The dog moves seamlessly, balanced, connected to his handler both physically and mentally in an effortless "dance."'
Is that the dream heeling you want to achieve with your dog?
What does it take to reach the level of focused heeling of your dreams?
In this webinar we will dive into the foundations that make this dream heeling possible, a simple but effective approach with clear criteria for each step of the way.
I will share the process I use to increase duration, focus and intensity while maintaining good positioning and balance of body and mind.
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Erin Lynes - Jumping to Solutions: Understand and Solve Common Dock Diving Problems
Date: Thursday, March 13th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
This webinar will dive deep into the common problems in dock diving, offering practical solutions and troubleshooting tips to help handlers and their dogs overcome obstacles. Whether you are working on introducing a new dog to the sport, or trying to get your experienced dog's issues sorted out to help improve personal bests or scoring for the next big event, you'll find the topic range here helpful! We will examine common dock diving struggles and their solutions, including the following:
- Hesitations: Understanding why dogs hesitate to jump, and how to choose dryland training exercises, and backchaining strategies on the dock, to boost confidence and increase your dog's speed and fluency.
- Early Take-Offs: Jumping too soon wastes a lot of distance and reduces your dog's scores! We'll look at the possible reasons for early take-offs and how your training plan differs, depending on why your dog is taking off early.
- Erratic scores: Sometimes big, sometimes small, often variable jump distances? Or does your dog jump differently depending on the facility or location? We'll take a deep dive into why scores may fluctuate and how to build towards consistently BIGGER scores over time.
- Struggles in Specialty Events: Spinning or slow returns in hydrodash, sharking in Air Retrieve or Vertical, 'failure to launch' in any of these types of events- many of these problems can be solved away from the pool, with graduated training and I'll show you how!
- Difficulty in Transitioning From the Ramp to the Dock - newbie dogs, I've got you! We'll discuss the common reasons that dogs may find it difficult to jump from the dock even if they are going in eagerly from the ramp- and how to help bridge that gap.
- Smaller than Expected Jumps - If your dog jumps significantly below their breed average, or you just feel like they are not quite going as far as they could, the tips in this webinar will help your dog build the confidence, technique, and conditioning to improve those scores.
- Stays!: How to fix them if they are broken, and I'll talk to you about why you want your dog to have one if they don't already! (or at least, having a respectable ability to be held back without injuring your helper!)
No matter what sort of dock diving issue you are dealing with, and no matter what your end goals are, you'll find help in this webinar with practical ways that you can use dryland training and/or strategic use of your pool rental time to help get those solved, so that you and your dog can have the best dock diving season yet!
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Stacy Barnett - Clearing Areas Part 1: What Is Your Dog Telling You?
Date: Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Picture this. You step the line and survey several thousand square feet that you have to search. You only have a matter of a few minutes and you have no idea how many hides there are. There could be a bunch, or there could be absolutely none. You know your dog is amazing and you want so much for all of that great training to result in a confident, successful, and complete search. This webinar series has been developed with you in mind.
Clearing areas of unknown number of hides while under time pressure and as efficiently as possible requires you to have excellent observation skills of BOTH your dog AND the search area. In this two part presentation, we will cover both in depth. While you can watch just one part, you will get a full picture with both.
Part 1: What is your dog telling you?
If you are at the level where you don’t know how many hides there are, odds are you already know pretty well how to read your dog. You probably have a pretty good handle on things like changes of behavior and alert behavior… Or, maybe you are aspiring to this level and you want to learn what you need to train for next.
Part 1 covers an interpretation of the dog’s body language as they work things like unproductive space (areas without odor), pooling or trapping odor, converging odor, and high hides. We will also get explore what tells your dog gives you when there just isn’t anything else to find! Expect lots of example videos in different scenarios.
This webinar double header is primer for success at the upper levels. You’ve trained your dog well. Now you just need to perform!
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Stacy Barnett - Clearing Areas Part 2: What Is The Search Area Telling You?
Date: Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Picture this. You step the line and survey several thousand square feet that you have to search. You only have a matter of a few minutes and you have no idea how many hides there are. There could be a bunch, or there could be absolutely none. You know your dog is amazing and you want so much for all of that great training to result in a confident, successful, and complete search. This webinar series has been developed with you in mind.
Clearing areas of unknown number of hides while under time pressure and as efficiently as possible requires you to have excellent observation skills of BOTH your dog AND the search area. In this two part presentation, we will cover both in depth. While you can watch just one part, you will get a full picture with both.
Part 2: What is the search area telling you?
As you increase in level, the need to also increase your situational awareness. This means that you need to be able to assess a search area in a way that you can quickly set the flow of the search based on a rapid evaluation of air flow. You will need to look for trouble spots and have a plan for how quickly (or thoroughly) you will cover each portion of the search area. And ultimately, you will need to be able to set your search pace so that you actually finish clearing the entire area without lingering too long in some spots or rushing through others.
Part 2 covers easy to remember rules of thumb for understanding air flow. For instance, did you know that air generally moves towards heat sources like windows? We will cover how these rules of thumbs should inform us as to the most efficient flow through the area in a way that our dog will get in the way of odor. We will also look at other major drivers of air flow and identify trouble areas or “traps” that can generate more than typical false alerts or eat up a handler’s time. Lastly, we will cover the concept of “pace” and how being aware of the pace with respect to search area coverage can minimize false alerts and missed hides.
This webinar double header is primer for success at the upper levels. You’ve trained your dog well. Now you just need to perform!
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