Advanced Handling:Continuing to build agility skills for those recently graduated from Intermediate and for TAG members wanting to improve handling skills. Skills building at this level can include distance work, strategizing for specific games and tricks to earning qualifying scores at competitions. Robert Stewart teaches Monday evenings. Debby Barnes instructs Intermediate students on Wednesday evenings.
Advance/Intermediate Level Handling
Intermediate Handling: For the improvemet and honing of skills required in competition for USDAA, AKC and NADAC, students who qualify for this class will be learning nuances to running complicated courses with their dogs and refining their skills. It includes paying attention to your body language and how your dog interprets this and strategies for advancing in complicated games and team events. Insight is given to competing at national events. All but level students can be accepted and accomodated except total newbies to the sport (depending on space available) Robert Stewart teaches this class Monday evenings.
NADAC Competitive Handling
Those competing in several venues (ie, USDAA, AKC and NADAC) will tell you that NADAC competitions are quite different from all the rest. Randy Pratt is a highly sought after NADAC agility JUDGE and has been competing at the highest level in this venue for many years with a wide variety of dogs. He has traveled many a mile to attend national NADAC competitions and has rare insight into how to succeed at the various games offered by NADAC, from Grounders to Chances, and all the strategies those games entail.
