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Wednesday Night Trial Applications
Class Do you find that in a trial situation your performance criteria slips? Can you see things you practice in the courses you run? Or do you just try to get from the start to the finish without faults? Do you find that the trial atmosphere affects how you and your dog run? K9 Express is again offering a year long class in Trial Applications. This is an opportunity to run an actual course in a trial atmosphere yet train at the same time. The K9 Express instructors will "judge" on a rotation basis and participants will be expected to act as course builders, pole setters, gate stewards, timers and scribes as necessary. Dogs will be benched as is normal for a trial situation. When: 2nd Wednesday of each month and 4th Wednesday of some months. Dates are below. We will be setting up a handling course—standard, jumpers, steeplechase—at the advanced/masters levels. As in a real trial situation, everyone will be expected to help course build, pole set, leash run, and gate keep. You will be given five minutes to walk the course and then you will have a set time to run it (instructor/judge will time). You will get a course map to plan your path, mark your trouble spots, your crosses (what types and why), and to jot down notes of how certain sequences run. Once everyone has run we will break it down and briefly work on the trouble spots. Pre-requisites: dogs should be competing or ready for competition, at minimum have some advanced handling classes under their belt Please bring: a pen/pencil, crate or x-pen, treats and toys (for after the run) . We are trying to mimic the trial environment as much as possible. This class will use the whole arena and will probably run beyond the scheduled time—much like a real trial!
Notes
Participation Previous participants will have the first option to participate (one
dog/person). Then, if there are more dogs than available spaces, a random
draw will be made from the 2008 substitute list (and then to new people)
to fill those Each substitute will be paired up with one student - if that student cannot make a class night, the student will be responsible for contacting their substitute to take their place. The approximate cost to the substitute is $10/class, which will be up to the missing student to collect if they so wish. If couples would like to share one spot, that is permissible as long as only one dog/handler team participates each course or exercise - if neither can make a class, they can inform their assigned substitute. Courses AAC courses, CKC courses, NADAC courses, USDAA courses, handling "drills/games" at an advanced or masters level. Emphasis is on handling and strategy to improve times and/or reduce faults. Suggestions from actual trial experiences/problems are welcome and encouraged. Class Format
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