ANNA EIFERT – APRIL 26/27, 2011
KineticDog LLC will be hosting FCI Vice World Champion and Hungarian Champion Anna Eifert April 23-25. The seminars will be held at Orchard Hills Training Center, Barto, PA (outside of Philadelphia). It will be held indoors on Sprinturf.
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International Competitors
April 23-24, 9am-5pm
This 2 day seminar is currently open for those competitors who are attending one of the following 2012 events: AKC/FCI Team Tryouts, IFCS World Championships, WAO Championships, and/or European Open. Spots may open to other similarly qualified teams if seminar does not fill.
Cost is $375 for a working spot (limit 10-12) and $90/day for auditing. Seminar is no frills.
Registration is not available online for this seminar. To register, please contact Mary Ellen at mebarry@kineticdog.com
Payment in full is due within 7 days in order to hold your spot.
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International Handling (Working spots full)
April 25, 9am-5pm
In this 1 day seminar we will work on challenges commonly seen at the International level. This is open to all dog/handler teams who are currently competing at the Masters level and are able to complete Masters Challenge / IHC / International level classes. Challenges will include blind crosses, back sides, threadles, serpentines, tunnel entrances and exits, multiple discriminations, angled weave entries, etc. Dogs must be competent on all equipment.
Cost is $185 for a working spot (limit 10-12) and $90/day for auditing. Seminar is no frills.
Payment in full is due within 7 days in order to hold your spot.
Registration will open on Monday February 13 at 8am for current KineticDog students and Tuesday February 14 at 8am for all others.
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About Anna:
The dogs: My first dog was a rescued mixed breed – I was 8 years old. After Pajti, I got my first purebred dog, HCH. Hungarian Gladiator Carlo Freddie (1992-1997) was a Standard Bull Terrier male. He was very good in obedience and won many CACIB and BOB titles in dog shows. He died of blood cancer. My next dog was again a Bull Terrier, but a smaller one: ICH. Anterrabae Memorial Don Giovanni, a beautiful Miniature Bull Terrier male. Not a typical sport dog, but I began to run agility with him! He taught me to be always positive and he showed me every dog can have fun and success in agility! I continued the training with two other uncommon breeds of agility dogs. My ex-partner had a very clever American Staffordshire Terrier female (Backwoods Your Baby Wanda) and a big Staffordshire-type mixbreed called Vigo. Both of them enjoyed agility very much. Giovanni and Vigo had a beautiful running contact on the dogwalk. Since 2003 I train together with Ildikó Halász. She’s a breeder of the beautiful and healthy Bergerac Belgien Shepherds. I got the possibility to run with her dogs. Flört, Faust and Fax were born in the same litter. Tessa is the grandchild of Fax, they live together. (Their owner is not able to run agility.) Nevian was born on the 12th of March 2004 in France. Her father is double World Champion Loch MacLeod. Her mother Silvertips’s Ai Loch Red Girl was born in the States. Nevian was only 2.5 years old when we won the silver medal at the World Championship in Basel, Switzerland. In 2010, Nevian won the British Open and the International Class at Crufts.
My method of training: I like positive agility – that not only means to be positive with the dog, it means positive handling too. I always show the next obstacle and I never hide something on the course. My position shows more than the next obstacle. I give the dog as much information as possible and I’m very consistent. I use my voice, my body, and my hands. Verbal commands and body language are very important for me - and trusting the dog too! I try to be fast, but agility is not only about running like crazy. When I run in competition with Nevian, I always have the feeling she reads my mind. I know, she’s the dog of my life and she’s very intelligent – but “thought-reading” is the result of my consistent handling. The more consistent and clearer the handler is, the faster the dog is. My basics are the same for every dog, but every dog and every handler needs an individual way of training. My method helps every team solve the most complicated combinations. I would like to prove the sentence “My dog can’t do it” doesn’t exist. Either the handler can’t do it yet or the dog wasn’t taught how to do it – both of them can be corrected! Adult dogs and their handler too can develop very well. I would like to show my methods at the seminars, because I, and my students too, have lot of fun and success with it and it’s a positive and healthy method for the dogs. But I’m always very interactive with my students. Seminars can give good tips and ideas, but you have to build your own system and work with it very consistently! To learn more about me, visit my website at http://www.eifertanna.com/