Course Details
Join Kamal Fernandez, world-renowned dog sports coach, for this in-depth presentation on chaining in dog training. Kamal has coached handlers to the elite level across a wide range of dog sports, including World Team members, Crufts winners, and national and international competitors across the globe. His experience spans multiple disciplines and includes success with breeds not traditionally considered “conventional” for high-level competition.
In this session, Kamal will break down the often-misunderstood skill of chaining—one of the most critical (and frequently challenging) elements of preparing dogs for competition.
In this presentation, you will learn:
* What chaining is and how it applies to dog sports
* Why chaining is essential for competition performance
* How to introduce chaining in a clear and progressive way
* Common challenges in chaining and how to problem-solve them
* How to build stronger, more reliable behaviour sequences
* The importance of release cues and duration markers
* How clarity in communication impacts successful chaining
Whether you’re new to chaining or looking to refine your approach, this session will give you practical tools to build confident, competition-ready dogs.
About the Instructor:
Kamal Fernandez, Internationally renowned dogs trainer, author, World Championship Level Sports dog coach. With over 36yrs experience in the world of dogs and dog training, Kamal has helped promote the use of reinforcement based methodology to train dogs from unruly pets to Crufts winners.
He has competed at the highest level in dog sports, and speaks at conferences and delivers seminars all over the world, including the Victoria Stillwell Bite Conference, IMPACT conference for service and military personnel, as well as Television appearances on Sky Televions ‘Dogs Might Fly’, where 12 rescue dogs were followed on their journey to ‘flying a plane’.
In addition to numerous Television appearances both in front and behind the camera, including:
- The One Show
- Dogs Behaving Badly
- The Underdog Show
- Lewis
- Channel 4’s The Dog Academy as a featured trainer
Also author of ‘Pathway to Positivity’ and ‘Relabelling Reactivity’.
Career Highlights so far:
- Multiple Crufts competitor
- Competed in Obedience, Agility, Working Trials and IGP.
- Speaker at Lemonade Conference for FDSA
- Instructor for Fenzi Dog Sport Academy
- World championship level dog sports coach
- Crufts judge/steward/team manager
- Keynote speak: IMPACT conference
- Victoria Stillwell Bite Prevention conference
- International Seminar presenter
- Author of: Pathway to Positivity
- Clicker Expo presenter
- Out on Control Dog Summit keynote speaker
- Decoding Your canine Summit Keynote speaker
- Ding Bat Dogs Border Collie Summit
- Susan Garret’s Dogsthat Podcast guest speaker
- Coach for New zealand Crufts World Cup Team
- Coach for Australian Crufts World Cup Team
- Coach to Crufts Championship competitors
- Coach to IGP World Team members
- Coach to FCI Agility team member
