As a sport, obedience has many facets and relies solely on solid foundations. After running level 1 classes for a year, we made the decision to no longer offer them. Due to the nature of skills development, dogs progress at different rates which can be really demotivating to the handler who is also learning an entire new skill!
Instead, we now offer our entry programme via 121 training only for those new to the sport.
For those already competing in sports, we invite you to get in touch where we will discuss your skillset and if direct entry into club is an option.
Entry level skills
We teach you and your dog:
- Luring mechanics
- Pivot awareness
- Heelwork foundations
- Recall & Send away foundations
- The dreaded retrieve foundations!
What you get:
- Access to our training community via discord
- Access to social meet ups to train through the year
- Access to club following your 121 training package
- Support via your 121s with your trainer, but also support from our 3 trainers via discord
Class progression
Our classes run in 4 week blocks. Instead of moving directly from foundation A to B, we recommend you complete each level until these behaviours are fluid and you both have a solid understanding of them, and your reinforcement values.
This does mean that you may do each class multiple times, each time being in a class mix of new dogs, and more advanced dogs. Not only is this inspiring to new dogs, but it allows you to work amongst different dogs.
Once you are fluent in these basic skills, we recommend you move into the club where we meet regularly for class; but also take our training into the real world!
This can be useful for competing dogs, but also for social media dogs, and enthusiast owners.
We welcome dogs that may can exhibit reactive behaviour in public: please get in touch for more information.
*These classes are strictly for obedience training, not behaviour modification.