Prerequisites: Dogs 12+ month old, Successful completion of OBC100 Beginner Obedience
This beginner class starts the foundation of teamwork between handler and dog! Dogs should have basic obedience skills such as heel, stay, come, sit and down. Skills need not be advanced as we are just building beginner foundations.
We spend time on the techniques of training movement, but just as important, we teach the concepts that help you to create a movement piece while handling your dog in a way that enhances every motion. The objective of Freestyle Dogwork is to show the dog/handler team's working relationship, share the joy of training and present the dog to his/her best advantage. In six 2-hour long classes we'll achieve this by learning to recognize the most beautiful of our dogs' attributes and by learning to blend those into a logical movement piece, accompanied with music, that is a pleasure for spectators to watch.
