Advanced Handling:Continuing to build agility skills for those recently graduated from Intermediate and for TAG members wanting to improve handling skills, these classes work at building skills such as distance work, strategizing for specific games and tricks to earning qualifying scores at competitions. Portia Purfey teaches Monday evenings.
AdvanceD/Intermediate Level Handling
Intermediate Handling: For the improvement and honing of skills required in competition for USDAA, AKC and NADAC, students who qualify for this class will be learning the nuances needed for running complicated courses with their dogs and refining their skills. This includes paying attention to your body language and how your dog interprets this as well as strategies for advancing in more complicated games and team events. Insight is given to competing at national events. Students at various skill levels can be accepted and accommodated (except total newbies to the sport). Portia Purfey teaches an intermediate class Monday evenings. Rebecca Highfill, Joie Flees, and David Lauderman instruct Intermediate students on Wednesday 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.
