Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

October 2022

OB118: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two

This class is all about foundations! Start a new dog on the right foot or discover missing pieces in your training. This class is designed to cover all the exercises in TEAM level 2. The TEAM program lays out ...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling

If you feel overwhelmed when you think about teaching your dog to heel or you simply don’t know where to start, this is the class for you. Instead of obsessing about every little detail (also a wonderful path for th...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

OB380: Unstick the Stuck Heeling: What's Keeping you from Trialing?

Are you and your dog struggling with heeling? Do you and your dog have nice heeling when you train, but the performance falls apart when you leave the comfort of home? Have you been stuck with the same problem for a...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(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)

OB733: Handler Choice - October

The people spoke! And FDSA Answered! After popular demand, and listening to the response from many…. the resulting outcome… Handlers Choice Class with Kamal Fernandez! During this 6weeks course, the handler can d...

Kamal Fernandez(Faculty)

December 2022

OB130: TEAM Sports Foundations Level One

This class is all about foundations! Start a new dog on the right foot or discover missing pieces in your training. This class is designed to cover all the exercises in TEAM Level 1. The TEAM program lays ou...

Heather Lawson(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)

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)

OB365: Open Obedience Fun - Putting the Pieces Together

Instructor: Petra Ford

Petra Ford(Faculty)

February 2023

OB135: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two

This class continues on with the foundations begun in TEAM 1! This class is designed to cover all the exercises in the TEAM Level 2. The TEAM program systematically lays out the building blocks for develo...

Heather Lawson(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)

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)

April 2023

OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One

This class is all about foundations! Start a new dog on the right foot or discover missing pieces in your training. This class is designed to cover all the exercises in TEAM level 1. The TEAM program lays ou...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB275: Finding the FUN in Fronts and Finishes!

Are fronts and finishes essential to your sport? Do you have a young pup who needs to learn these important skills, or an already-trained dog who could use a refresher? Maybe your dog is getting a little...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

OB320: Obedience Starter Games

This class is a "prequel" to the popular OB330 Obedience Games class. This is not a skills class but designed to present many short, fun, and fast paced games for beginner competition obedience training. W...

Julie Symons(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 g...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

June 2023

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)

OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

OB462: Shaping a Confident and Flashy Heel-Moving Foundations

Fancy, flashy, free, prancing, head up heeling! Want it? You've come to the right class. Got forging, vocalizing, crabbing instead? You've come to the right class too! (make sure you grab that first class as well, ...