SCHUTZHUND DRIVE TRAINING AND HANDLING

Take your Schutzhund training program to the next level!

Our 3-day Schutzhund Drive Training seminar explains how to use the dogs natural instincts IN ALL 3 PHASES OF SCHUTZHUND to make your dog stronger, more confident, and more under control without creating conflicts.

If you're just starting in Schuthund, our 3-phase drive building seminars will help you avoid the most common problems trainers and handlers face in the sport. Your dog will be light years ahead of the compeititon!

If you are experiencing problems in your training program, our drive training seminars fix rather than cover

up common problems seen with traditional Schutzhund training. This seminar will help fix:

Tracking: lying about the track, lack of focus, over-shot corners, missed articles, and lack of enthusiasm for the track.

Obedience: Forging, crowding, slow sits, slow downs, slow recalls, and lack of focused attention.

Protection: lack of intensity while barking in the blind, screaming and excessive barking (AKA - leaking), looking back at the handler in the hold and bark/guarding, shallow grips, growling, and slow outs.

All of these problems are caused by conflict in the dog's training program and can easily be fixed through our 3-phase Drive Training Seminars. Stop wasting your time with tricks and gimmicks. Get to the root of the problem and fix the cause rather than the symptoms.

We also offer a 2-day competition handling seminars designed for the busy handler / trainer who can't make our more indepth 3-day seminars.. Instruction is concentrated so note taking and video recording is encouraged.

These seminars are now limited to 6 dog/handler teams per session so that we may give individualized attention and help our clients get the most out of their experience. Spots fill quickly. Sign up now to reserve your spot!

1-Day puppy training Seminar Next Session:   TBA Location: Tumwater, WA

3-Day 3-Phase Drive Training Seminar Next Session: Feb 29 - Mar 2 Location: Tumwater, WA Cost is $475.00 per handler/dog team Register Now

 

HELPER / DECOY TRAINING SEMINARS

Do you want to learn how to catch dogs? Learn the fundementals of protection helper/decoy work from the best teacher in the nation - Les Flores.

Les is well known and admired in the Schutzhund community for his trial helper program development. His ideas and programs are currently the foundation of helper programs being used and developed internationally as well as in major National Schutzhund organizations in the United States.

Les' helper seminars promote safe, consistent, reliable, trial helpers. His unique ability to teach both green and experienced helpers safe protection work through technique is unsurpassed.

After eight years of service, Les recently retired from the DVG America office of National OFS (national training director). Before his retirement, Les certified over 200 helpers nation wide and has given countless helper seminars. Please contact us to schedule a trial helper seminar in your area or for dates, prices, and availability in the Puget Sound region.

For information about already scheduled helper seminars, please see the Seminar Schedule.

And, for those who are ready to move beyond trial helper work, try our teaching helper seminar. This instruction is provided in tandem with our Drive Training and Handling seminar (described above). You'll learn how to recognize what drive a dog is really in (it's usually not what you think), how to get dogs in only one drive at a time, how to channel and shift drives without creating conflict, and how to solve the common problems described in the Drive Training Seminar.

Only two spots are available per seminar for teaching helper work. Please contact us for availability, pricing, and dates.

Private 1-on-1 training helper sessions are also available by request only. Please contact us for availability, pricing, and scheduling dates.