Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

December 2023

OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One

Interested in dog sports? Come teach your dog the foundations needed to be successul in obedience and rally! This isn't a class full of heeling around in circles. Learn about using foot targets, fancy ...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB160: Ring Confidence for Obedience, Rally, and Agility

This course is officially expanded to include agility as well as obedience and rally! Most handlers spend months or even years teaching their dogs the specific exercises and obstacle performanc...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB215: Competition Heeling Part One - Fundamentals

Great heeling is a pleasure to watch. Dog and handler moving together as one. The dog is happy, animated, joyful and confident. Heeling is a dance that should express joy and teamwork. How do you accomplish th...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB340: Strike a Pose: Fabulous Positions!

You enter your sport ring/field, dog heeling by your side. When the exercise comes, you leave them on a specific position and walk away. You cue each position change, and your dog executes them perfectly with paws s...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

OB370: Reliable Retrieves

This class will cover all of the pieces needed to train a reliable obedience retrieve. We will begin by teaching each piece of the behavior chain including the hold and front position. Then we will work to put the p...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

February 2024

OB205: Creating Optimal Drive State for Learning and Competition

Understanding and managing your dog’s drive state/arousal level is a critical component of training and trialing successfully. It is very difficult and uncomfortable for a dog to learn and compete in a state o...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB225: Competition Heeling Part Two - Skills & Engagement

Heeling requires significant concentration and sustained focus to maintain position, focal point and engagement. Heeling is easily the most difficult obedience exercise. When trained properly, it is a bea...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Novice Ring

This class will teach you how to take your TEAM foundations skills in levels 1 & 2 and use those to create the formal chains used in trials. We will be looking specifically at the exercises at the novice l...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

April 2024

OB120: TEAM Sports Foundation - Level Three

Team 3!! This is where the real fun begins as you start to chain together the little pieces you learned in levels 1-2. Now the dog gets to really move and you can start to see real glimpses of the fina...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB355: Open Foundation Fun!

Open Obedience Foundation Fun! It’s time to move away from thinking of obedience as serious. An open run is really just a long chain of pet tricks! Breaking the exercises into small pieces and teaching each p...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB460: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Foundations

Do you have “heeling envy”? Do you see all those prancing dogs in perfect position looking up at their handlers and wish you could teach your dog THAT? Does your dog love the pivot platform, but how DO you get from ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

OB480: Train to Trial

How do I get the same performance in training and in the ring? That is one of the most common challenges in competitive sports. It is something everyone struggles with. “My dog ONLY does that in th...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB600: Healing Your Heeling Handling

This course is designed for experienced handlers as well as new obedience handlers that know nothing about the finer points of handling during heeling in obedience. Dogs make mistakes in heeling when they are not p...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

June 2024

OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling

Does the thought of teaching heeling leave you feeling overwhelmed? Not sure where to start? Maybe your dog is stuck on the bowl? This class will get you off the bowl and moving forward! If you jus...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

OB160: Ring Confidence for Obedience, Rally, and Agility

This course is officially expanded to include agility as well as obedience and rally! Most handlers spend months or even years teaching their dogs the specific exercises and obstacle performanc...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB800: Mondioring OB: All-Breed Obedience

Mondioring Obedience is a fun new obedience venue catered to all breeds! Based on real-life challenges and working under distraction, Mondioring takes familiar obedience exercises to a new level. With the devel...