This year’s edition of CAMP will focus on the super independent handling and obstacle skills needed to successfully navigate current course trends! The 2025 Edition of CAMP is designed to sharpen up your handling skills as well as polish your dog’s trained skills, to prepare you and your dog for the challenges you will see in the ring!
CAMP 2025 will have amazing opportunities for dogs competing at any level: hone your Masters dog’s skills, start your young dog’s trial career, prepare for big events, improve your teamwork, and everything in between! Streamline your handling system, improve your communication with your dog, and make sure your dog’s skills are well-trained and solidly understood. Let’s go to the next level and explore the fastest, most efficient ways to get your dog around the course!
The 2025 edition of CAMP will feature:
- 10 week CAMP format, with Games Packages posted every 2 weeks (total of 5 Games Packages)
- In each Games Package:
- Super Independent HANDLING Skills Challenges: Increase your dog’s understanding and independent execution of the handling challenges found on course!
- Super Independent Obstacle Skills Challenges: Increase your dog’s understanding and independent execution of the independent obstacle challenges found on course, as well as obstacle discriminations!
- Full Course Work: Master the challenges you’ll find on a full-sized jumping and standard courses! EachGames package will have 2 full Jumping courses and 2 full Standard courses!
- Small Space “Pop Outs”: Sequences that can fit into smaller spaces, with challenges drawn from the larger courses
- All CAMPers will have access to ALL of the courses, sequences, and skills challenges!
Additional Course Details
- Faculty:
- Tracy Sklenar
- Dates:
- Course starts on Monday, June 16, 2025.
- Registration closes on August 1, 2025.
- Course material access never expires.
- Level:
- Competition-level dogs ages 15 months and older
- Course Structure:
- The course will consist of courses, sequences and training games posted on June 16, June 30, July 14, July 28, Aug 11 (every 2 weeks). Course maps will be posted on the Sunday before the official release dates to optimize course building time. The final day for video submissions will be Sept 2nd
- Each lesson includes:
- Downloadable written instructions for each game and sequence
- Course Maps
- Video explanations and video demos
- Equipment needed (working participants only):
- Full Course Work: Full set of Standard Agility obstacles (all contacts, weaves, 2 tunnels, 8 jumps).
- Super Independent Skills Challenges: 1 tunnel and 6 jumps for the handling challenges. Weaves and contacts will be used in the obstacle challenges.
- Space required (working participants only):
- All games and courses can be tweaked to fit your space! Approximate space requirements are 80×80 for full courses. For Super Independent Skills challenges approximate space requirements are 40×40.
Course Information
Course Instructor
Auditing Spot
Can view and read all videos/assignments/posts from instructor and working students, will get instructor answers to course-specific questions posted, can actively participate in class forum, chat and office hours.
Working Spot
Posts videos of assignments, gets instructor feedback to all of these as well as answers to any questions posted, can actively participate in forum, chat and office hours.
Syllabus Coming Soon!
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