Specialised Training:

 ..... as a Live Class or a NEW V-Class!

Creating the Dream Team
for
Freestyle, Heelwork to Music and Dressage

A two year training course developing young dogs for careers in competition or performance. Suitable for new handlers or young dogs (from 16 weeks) with experienced handlers. Clicker training experience needed.

The course will examine:

• the fundamental skills of a competition dog: focus, connection, reliability
• develop style and strength in natural movement: creating balance, co-ordination, rhythm, agility
• exercises to strengthen performance skills: reinforcement patterns, mental and physical stamina
• build repertories through creative teaching: behaviours with flair, complexity and minimal signals

Unit 1 The Foundations

• Training exercises for the competition dog.
• Building skills for the future: connection and focus, default behaviours, emotional control.
• Learning to move to compliment your partner.
• Learning the tools of creative teaching, targets, guides.
• Inbuilt generalisation.
• Planning for lifelong cues.
• Constructing long term plans of behaviours.
• Building reinforcement patterns and self control.
• Exercises to build young dogs for the performance skills.

Live Class

Starting: Sep 20, Oct 18, Nov 15 9.30 - 5pm

£165 10 places only

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virtual Class

Starting: Oct 1 finishing Dec 12

6 Lessons, 1 every two weeks
Group Class from 10am - 10pm (GMT),
starting Friday Oct 3, every 2 weeks

£165 (inc VAT- not payable outside EU) approx $261

4 book a place

4 more details of V-Classes

Unless participants are already competent (which means really good!) they will need to arrange additional classes in personal dance/movement training, and study musical interpretation (study guides will be provided for this) outside the classes.

At least 3-4 hours training per week per team will be expected, inclusive of personal dance and music development

Kay has successfully competed in Obedience, Trials, (Working and Sheepdog), Heelwork to Music and the Show Ring.

She competed in the first UK competition in 1996, and partnered Mary Ray to several successful wins in pairs competitions as well as demonstration at Crufts.

In 2000 she founded the Paws n Music Association, which is the only UK Kennel Club affiliated organisation that specialises in the sport. The Association incorporated the successful Progress Awards designed by Kay that serve as a curriculum for structured training across the four PNM divisions: Musical Dressage, Heelwork To Music, Freestyle and Dances with Dogs.

Kay is the author of Dances With Dogs which contains a range of recipes for teaching the movements for all four divisions. She has presented several workshops around the UK, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and USA in Freestyle influencing the young sport from the outset.

She currently competes with Speck and Dottie (aka “The Spots”) in a handful of UK competitions and was a judge at Crufts 2008 for the finals of the Freestyle, Heelwork to Music and International competitions.