I’ve just come across this: http://fenziteamtitles.com/ It’s a detailed training plan (leading towards US -style competitive obedience) and the content is free -you only pay if you want to submit videos and receive awards. I think it looks really interesting, as every stage is broken into small steps, so I think I’ll give it a try. What appeals to me is that you do more advanced behaviours right from the word go, but at a simpler level -so initially in your own home or garden ( low distraction) , with the dog only a few feet away ( low distance) and each exercise is short ( low duration). It seems much more interesting than the UK obedience which is heelwork, heelwork, heelwork. (Click on ‘levels’ to see the content.)
This is interesting, but that is about the least user-friendly web site ever. If you wouldn't have explained it in your post, I would have had no idea what it is was. Maybe I'm just out of it and the trainer is so famous as not to need an intro? But still interesting, so thanks!
Ok perhaps my phrase ‘training plan’ was misleading. What it gives are detailed written and video examples for each small step on the way to having a competition dog. On the Facebook page where I found the link, she explains that it was a response to lack of interest in competitive obedience and the need to make it more achievable by breaking down the skills into small units. If you click on ‘show me’ under ‘levels’ you get a list of levels. Click on any one of these and you get a description of exercises and videos of successful rounds. One exercise at level 1 is for the dog to find the heel position from an angle. I tried it with Molly and she could do it from all directions really confidently. However another level 1 exercise is to find front position from an angle. This Molly could not do (she wanted to go to heel) and it was helpful to me as Molly often sits crookedly in a front / present and I can see now that she doesn’t understand and that I need to do some placeboard work and help her to understand this cue. @Emily_BabbelHund I think Denise Fenzi is very well-known.
If you click on the Sport Foundations Levels you can open a pdf document which lists the exercises in each level and the requirements for them
Yep, makes sense...I'm pretty out of touch except when someone from the Forum (like yourself!) makes me aware of such things!
