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What “lumping” is in nosework, and how to tell if you’re guilty
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How to break down skills when odor rules
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Example training progressions you can adapt
About the webinar
Let’s talk about how to develop and stick to your training plan. That means HOW to break searching skills into small enough pieces to help your dog improve without frustration and without being a “lumper.” Nosework isn’t some kind of mystical woo-woo training. Yes, the hide trains the dog, which means we need to be smart about how we build skills! At the same time, we need to make the right training decisions for our dogs and our goals. Training with the end in mind keeps you honest and keeps you from just patching up holes for your next trial. Remember: Training is Training and Trialing is Testing! Learn how to keep yourself from falling into the abyss of training to trial. This is just SOME of what we cover: What is “lumping” in nosework, and how can we tell if we’re guilty? How DO you break down skills when odor rules? Why shouldn’t we focus on training trial skills? What are some example training progressions? Includes a downloadable handout with a summary, checklist, training log and more, so you can build your training plan and log your progress all year long. This webinar is perfect for competitors who practice outside of class and have aspirations for excellence!
Stacy Barnett
Stacy Barnett is both a sport and working dog handler. She is a top nosework competitor and trainer, and the first handler to put multiple Summit titles (16 so far) on 3 dogs (Judd SMTx3, Brava SMTx7, Powder SMTx6) in the National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW). Stacy is also a certified SARTECH II Search and Rescue professionally trained responder and has trained, certified, and deployed with her dog, K9 Prize, for Wilderness Search and Rescue. Stacy has recently joined Missouri Task Force 1 as a US&R Canine Search Specialist. She has been a faculty member at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy since 2015 and is an international clinician for seminars around the world. She is a licensed Judge for for AKC Scent Work where she was also retained in an advisory position for the AKC Scent Work program for 2 years. Stacy is the founder of Scentsabilities Nosework, and has delivered over 250 educational webinars since 2017. Stacy also co-hosts the popular podcast, K9 Detection Collaborative with Robin Greubel.
Watch Now and Make Your Training Plan WORK
This 1h 59m session (plus Q&A) gives you a plan that works all year, not just in January. Lifetime access means you can come back to it each time you reset your goals.
$39.00