Workshop Registration June 1st, 2024 - June 15th, 2024
[ workshop starts on June 18th]
How do the transitions and strength
affect position changes
Do you struggle with position changes in obedience?
Is your dog always creeping forward or moving their feet?
Do you want to learn NEW ways to work through training issues?
Do you want to learn strength training exercise that help to improve position changes?
Then this is the workshop for you!
The workshop will include training and multiple exercises for all 4 positions.
Stand
Sit
Down
Moving into Heel
If you understand why your dog is doing what they are doing, then you can fix it.
In this workshop, Bobbie will help you through a posture evaluation and she will review your position changes. She will then recommend at least THREE exercises that will help your dog improve most. As a worker you will turn in a video for evaluation of your dog, a video of them doing obedience along with a history form so that Bobbie can best help you.
Why Take This Workshop?
➤Understand how to adjust position changes and transitions based on how your dog is performing them
➤Learn how to train a more precise stand, sit, and down with smooth transitions between them
➤Learn how to prevent creeping, sliding, and unwanted foot movement
➤ Stop your dog from over or under rotating into heel position
➤Receive personalized feed back on your dog via video voice over review. (Workers Only)
Who Should Participate?
→ Dogs should be 6 months old or older to participate in this workshop
→ All ages of dogs will benefit as well as those competing in obedience as well as other dog sports (agility, flyball, dock diving, herding, IGP, Ring etc)
→ Anyone who is interested in canine fitness and performance
→ Anyone needing continuing education for CSCC will earn 5 hrs of CEUs for working students and 2 hrs of CEU's for Auditing students.
Advantages of the Workshop
✔️ Convenience of live instruction online with voiceover video analysis
✔️ Save on travel expenses (flight, hotel, meals etc)
✔️ Time efficient to learn the material vs. than the traditional workshop format
✔️ Work with your own dog in the convenience of your home
✔️ Access to the material for as long as BLCC exists
What's Included?
↳Real-time instruction and live Q&A via zoom LIVE sessions. ↳Bobbie will show a power point presentation that will be available to you after the workshop to download
↳Access to discussion threads and LIVE session recordings
↳Working spots will be able to submit up to 4 minute video for posture evaluation and receive voiceover analysis
Bobbie will teach using zoom, power point, and videos. You can ask questions during the live sessions as well as later in the online classroom.
TWO LIVE sessions (approx. 2 hrs) will be held:
June 18th, 2024 - 3:00pm Pacific
July 9th, 2024 - 3:30pm Pacific
This is for all participants Workers and Auditors. After the workshop I will upload supporting information for download.
After the initial Workshop, workers will turn in a 1 min video per position for a maxmium of 4 minutes by July 2nd.
Further instructions will be given during the workshop. Bobbie will review all videos by July 8th and another live coaching call will be held on July 9th to answer any questions you have and to give you a couple starter exercises to support good posture in your dog.
LIVE Q&A
During the LIVE Q&A sessions Bobbie will answer questions, demonstrate live, and give feedback on videos submitted for review.
DISCUSSION THREADS
There will be discussion threads for workers to post their videos and for auditors to ask questions.
VIDEO REVIEW
Working students can submit a maximum of 4 minutes (1 minute per movement) of video evaluation. Videos will be submitted by July 2nd AFTER the live workshop on June 18th. Voiceover video review will be done by screen-casting for a more personalized experience and more detailed information. Screen-casting is audio-visual feedback (the next best thing to a 1:1 conversation)
START DATE
The live workshop will officially start on June 18th, 2024, with a coaching call on July 9th,2024. Access to material for as long as BLCC exists.
The school reserves the right to modify, update or remove this class at any time.
Suggested Pre-requisites -
➤An understanding or willingness to train targeting skills
➤A basic understanding how to positively train dogs and an open mind
Possible Equipment –
substitution will be recommended if you don’t have equipment used in the videos. FitPaws equipment can be purchased HERE. Klimb is offering a discount as well. Information to get the discount will be available upon enrolling.
▸ TWO 2x4's
▸ Feed bowl
▸ Target mat (~12' wide & 24" long - ex FitPaws FitMat)
▸ Cato plank or equivalent (narrow platform that fits your entire dog in a balanced stand)
▸ Another platform that is the same height as the Cato Plank (Cato board, aerobic bench, homemade platforms, 2 Klimbs with no legs and non slip top, etc)
There are many possible equipment options or you may use something you have laying around your house.
Training Methods -
A variety of training methods can be used to obtain the proper movement, position, or posture - shaping, luring, capturing, targeting and molding. These will be discussed and demonstrated in the video tutorials and through video review but every tiny step will not be demonstrated.
Disclaimer: Some information in this class/workshop may overlap or appear in other classes/workshops due to the foundation needed for many behaviors, tricks and fitness exercises. In addition, there are overlapping skills needed for many different performance activities so you may see exercises that are the same but packaged up differently toward a slightly different goal.
Bobbie Lyons, CSCC, CCFT, KPA CTP
Lead Instructor and Program Director - Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach Program
Certified Canine Fitness Trainer
Karen Pryor Academy Faculty
Bobbie owns and operates Pawsitive Performance LLC which offers dog training, fitness training, and trick training around the globe. Bobbie is the lead instructor and program director for the Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach program that is offered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University Veterinary Medicine. She was also a part of the TEAM that contributed knowledge and experience to design the CCFT II Live Lab and was a course instructor for the program. Bobbie completed the certification program for Canine Fitness through the Companion Animal Sciences Institute and she is a Certified Training Partner with Karen Pryor Academy.
Bobbie has 4 awesome dogs that train a variety of skills for agility, fitness training, trick training, tugging, and dock diving. Bobbie enjoys the training process and strives to communicate in the best way she can to help her dogs and clients dogs understand the task at hand. She starts every training session with this question "how can I set the dog up for success and give the dog the best information to successfully complete the behavior".
To learn more about Bobbie, visit:
- Ask questions in the discussion threads
- View video feedback recordings in the working students threads
- Ask questions in the discussion threads
- Submit videos for feedback
- Earn certificate of completion