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During this seminar we will cover how to build and increase distance skills. Focus will be on how to teach your dog to move ahead of you as well as work laterally away from you. This seminar will help your team gain the understanding and confidence needed to enhance and increase your distance skills. Saturday, we will work on smaller sequences to teach directionals while incorporating more distance into the exercises. Sunday we will work on sequences / courses including running some Chances courses.  Teams at all levels are welcome but dogs must be able to perform tunnels, jumps, hoops and contacts. Sequences/Courses will be presented in a way that will push each team for distance according to their level of training. More advanced teams will be pushed to gain more distance and more novice teams will work on gaining distance skills.  

Fees: A working spot is $250 for weekend $130 a single day. Auditing $30 a day

Please fill out the following registration form and mail along with $100 Deposit to Lisa Bonker

REGISTRATION FORM

Site Info: Indoor on Sand Nonheated arena http://www.chapteronefarms.com/index.htm

Time: 9-5 with break for lunch (lunch is not provided)

Things to Bring: Chair, crate, lots of good treats, toys, & food/drinks for yourself

For information, contact Lisa at lmsphd@gmail.com

Lisa Bonker has been active in agility for over 10 years. She is a NADAC certified Clinician and gives seminars across the continent. Lisa hosts over 15 NADAC Trials yearly as In The Zone Agility and In The Zone Agility of Illinois. Lisa has won the NADAC Championships six years in a row with three different dogs. Her dogs are consistently in the NADAC Top 10 with Jet being the Highest Scoring Skilled Dog in 2007 and Moxie the Highest Scoring Skilled Dog in 2008. Moxie and Expedite have also earned six NADAC Platinum Speed Star Awards. Lisa and her dogs have earned over 50 NATCHs. A complete list of Lisa’s accomplishments is on her website at: http://inthezoneagility.com/accomplish.html.

Lisa currently has six dogs – four Border Collies, an Aussie, and a Boston Terrier Mix, two of which are rescues. Two of Lisa’s dogs fall into the double digit category and two of them are just starting out their agility careers. Lisa’s dogs cover a wide spectrum; from soft to hard, slow to fast and pre-novice to multiple championships. This allows Lisa to bring real life experiences into her training. The core of which is good foundation training, motivation and consistent, clear handling all in a fun positive way.

Photo by Priscilla Warnock