LAND WORK FOR WATER TRAINING WORKSHOP MAY 21, 2016 OWATONNA, MN Want to do some water training with your dog, but aren't sure where to start ? Or maybe you don't have easy access to water, so need additional opportunities to train? Maybe you have specific problems you'd like to work on? Or perhaps, as is often the case in Minnesota, the water's so cold that you have a very short training season in the water? If you answered yes to any of the above, come to the workshop on "land work" for water training! Land work can be a great tool for water training. Whether working with a very young puppy who has never been swimming, or a seasoned water dog, there's plenty that can be done on land, to introduce various exercises, or to fine tune things. Even dogs that don't know how to retrieve can be started with various exercises on land...and you'll also learn the steps for teaching a reliable retrieve. No water training experience is needed to participate in the workshop. There will be plenty that dogs of all ages and stages of training can do. There will be plenty of opportunity for hands-on experience doing "land work" with the dogs. Videos of the different levels of NCA water tests will also be available. Participants will be expected to help with each other's dogs..the more people help each other, the more everyone will accomplish. There will be three experienced instructors - Ann & Andre Lapeyre and Ann Dunnigan. All three regularly train in obedience, draft and water - have extensive titles on their newfs including WRDX titles and have put on numerous workshops in the past. With three instructors we will run three "stations" at a time so everyone will get plenty of hands on time. We will view videos (old fashioned VCR tapes) of our dogs doing each of the levels at a test so that people can not only see the exercises but can see how tests run. While our goal is to serve regional club members, non-members and non-newfs are welcome from our standpoint. However, please contact Ted Mittelstadt at tjm88@charter.net for a full registration packet. Anyone interested should download the current rules from the NCA website and read them before the workshop. Here is the direct link: http://www.ncanewfs.org/working/water/pdfs/WTRegs%20Approved%20for%202016%20 release.pdf Chris Plum 5452 Kimberly Rd Minnetonka, MN 55345

Sure wish I didn't live halfway across the country! Hope you have a great workshop! Dawn Fretts On 12 April 2016 at 21:16, Christopher Plum <christopher.n.plum@gmail.com> wrote: > LAND WORK FOR WATER TRAINING WORKSHOP > > MAY 21, 2016 > > OWATONNA, MN > > > > Want to do some water training with your dog, but aren’t sure where to > start ? Or maybe you don’t have easy access to water, so need additional > opportunities to train? Maybe you have specific problems you’d like to > work on? Or perhaps, as is often the case in Minnesota, the water’s so cold > that you have a very short training season in the water? If you answered > yes to any of the above, come to the workshop on “land work” for water > training! Land work can be a great tool for water training. > > > > Whether working with a very young puppy who has never been swimming, or a > seasoned water dog, there’s plenty that can be done on land, to introduce > various exercises, or to fine tune things. Even dogs that don’t know how > to retrieve can be started with various exercises on land…..and you’ll also > learn the steps for teaching a reliable retrieve. No water training > experience is needed to participate in the workshop. There will be plenty > that dogs of all ages and stages of training can do. > > > > There will be plenty of opportunity for hands-on experience doing “land > work” with the dogs. Videos of the different levels of NCA water tests will > also be available. Participants will be expected to help with each other’s > dogs….the more people help each other, the more everyone will accomplish. > > > > There will be three experienced instructors - Ann & Andre Lapeyre and Ann > Dunnigan. All three regularly train in obedience, draft and water - have > extensive titles on their newfs including WRDX titles and have put on > numerous workshops in the past. With three instructors we will run three > "stations" at a time so everyone will get plenty of hands on time. > > > > We will view videos (old fashioned VCR tapes) of our dogs doing each of > the levels at a test so that people can not only see the exercises but can > see how tests run. > > > > While our goal is to serve regional club members, non-members and > non-newfs are welcome from our standpoint. However, please contact Ted > Mittelstadt at tjm88@charter.net for a full registration packet. > > > > Anyone interested should download the current rules from the NCA website > and read them before the workshop. > > > > Here is the direct link: > http://www.ncanewfs.org/working/water/pdfs/WTRegs%20Approved%20for%202016%20release.pdf > > > > > > > > Chris Plum > > 5452 Kimberly Rd > > Minnetonka, MN 55345 > > > > _______________________________________________ > NewfLink mailing list > NewfLink@nsnewf.org > http://nsnewf.org/mailman/listinfo/newflink_nsnewf.org > > -- Your life is your message to the world. Use it to inspire.