Albany Obedience Club presents Sandra Ladwig Obedience Seminar Straight Talkin Training Where: Albany Obedience Club, Glenmont NY (near Albany) When: October 11 & 12, 2014 Registration form: fairpoint.net/~aoc1294/Sandra%20Ladwig%20seminar.pdf Sandras philosophy is straight forward, no gimmicks, no nonsense. Just common sense dog training. She believes competitive obedience training is nothing more than constant problem solving. The handler must learn to be consistent and insistent. Creativity is a must to keep the dog focused and attentive. You must predict to prevent, and constantly work for attitude and demand work ethic. Sandra teaches dogs maneuverability and flexibility which she feels is a missing link in dog training. This maneuverability gives the handler and the dog a better understanding of how to connect the four body parts, feet, hips, shoulders and head for better control on fronts, finishes, heeling, drops, etc. She balances out her training, by first, teaching the parts and pieces of every exercise. She will only correct the dog when it fully understands the exercise but fails to comply. This establishes work ethic and reliability on the part of the dog. She also believes in teaching the dog to stay connected mentally, keeping the lines of communication going and not letting the dog make its own decisions. If the dog starts to make choices, she believes that this can be disaster waiting to happen in competitive obedience training. Since her involvement in the sport of competitive dog obedience She has won 252 High In Trials and 183 High Combined Awards and has earned multiple 200 scores and over 5,000 OTCH points and growing. Along the way, she has finished 8 Obedience Trial Champions. She has also shown and placed at many obedience tournaments and has repeatedly been ranked in the yearly rating systems. She has been sharing her knowledge for over 30 years through private lessons, seminars and yearly workshops. More information about Sandra can be found here: straighttalkintraining/aboutsandra.html For more information please contact Mary Maltbie at m_maltbie@hotmail
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:39:36 +0000