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The difference between practicing and training

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How to split skills so your dog understands the objective

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Recognize when your normal training is working against you

About the webinar

If you’ve ever struggled with ANYTHING in Scent Work, you’ve probably had too much “practice” and not enough “training.” When we practice, we risk confusing objectives, losing the point, and worse, making it all worse! The hard part is that it can be REALLY challenging to avoid doing the same thing over and over again. What am I talking about? A great example is AKC Buried. Did you know most people struggle with that element because of skill deficiencies that have nothing to do with sand or water? And that they can be addressed by shoring up other skills? The problem is that the answer is always to practice MORE, and the result is more headache and inconsistent results. Eventually the dog might figure it out, just because they’re smart! This webinar isn’t about Buried specifically, but it IS about learning how to slice up your training and increase the CLARITY of what you’re trying to train. Did you know your normal training practices might be working against you? In this webinar, we talk about CLARITY: how to recognize it and how to train with it! Includes a downloadable handout with a summary, checklist, training log and more, to help you split your training into clear pieces and log each session’s objective.

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 Train With Clarity

This 2h 20m session (plus Q&A) changes how you plan every training session. Lifetime access means you can come back to it whenever you’re tempted to just “practice.”

$39.00

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