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Train with Stacy Online!Stacy teaches several classes each session through Fenzi Dog Sports Academy (FDSA). Classes at FDSA start the 1st of every other month, with registration available approximately a week in advance.
The next session starts April 1st, 2023. Registration will open March 22nd.
Classes this Session
See descriptions below for more information.
N130S: NW130 – Developing Advanced Nosework Skills
NW215: Air Flow Superpowers for the Developing Dog (NEW!!!)
NW455: Converging Odor Deep Dive
Registration Opens MAY 22nd
Class Runs JUN. 1 – JUL. 12
N130S: NW130 – Developing Advanced Nosework Skills
Want to continue the Nosework fun? Then this class is for you!
This is the third skills level course in our nosework program and will build on the skills acquired in the previous two skills classes. We will search for odor only and work to develop the teamwork necessary for successful trialing – and that involves trusting your dog to lead you to source. We will cover training skills such as:
- thresholds and corners,
- environmental considerations around airflow and weather conditions,
- aged hides,
- non-box containers,
- how to set up and work through distractions,
- how to evaluate search are challenges/approach,
- how to effectively search an area,
- multiple hides,
- inaccessibles,
- advanced vehicle searches,
- building search stamina,
- combo odors,
- what to expect when trialing,
- assessing trial readiness, and
- problem solving individual team skills.
This class is open to any dog who is currently searching for odor only; titles are not required. If you are not currently trialing, don’t let the topics discourage you, as they are all easily modified for each dog. Our goal is always to increase the challenge in increments that the dog can handle and successfully overcome!!
NOTE: This class will offer a Teaching Assistant (TA) who will be available to Silver and Bronze students in the Study Group. FDSA TA’s will answer questions and review videos in the Student Study Group.
Registration Opens MAY 22nd
Class Runs JUN. 1 – JUL. 12
NW215: Air Flow Superpowers for the Developing Dog (NEW!!!)
Did you know that where and how you place your hides are some of the biggest predictors for well your dog will search? Did you also know that you need to be able to predict air flow to set an effective hide? Have you ever set a hide that you thought was going to be easy… but your dog struggled? This class will teach you how to harness the superpowers of air flow to help your developing dog to search at their very best!
Did you ever wish that you had Scent Goggles? Well since they haven’t yet been invented, we can strive for the next best thing!
We will learn and more importantly predict, how air will move around corners, up walls, and how it will swirl and pool… among all the other cool things that air does! And not only will your dog start to search way more effectively, but you will get way better at understanding the beautiful story that your dog is telling you about the odor’s behavior.
This class is so much more than scent theory and hide placement… it’s about setting hides to make your dog a stronger searching dog and to make YOU a more effective trainer and handler!
We will leverage the world around us… so get ready to get out to new places to set some thoughtful searches. Variety is essential in our sport! This class will help you to think about your search areas and will push you to get out of your predictable patterns.
Ultimately this class will help to build amazing, effective foundations for the dogs just starting in novel areas and will help more experienced, but still developing, dogs search faster with fewer missed hides or false alerts.
NOTE: This class will offer a Teaching Assistant (TA) who will be available to Silver and Bronze students in the Study Group. FDSA TA’s will answer questions and review videos in the Student Study Group.
Registration Opens MAY 22nd
Class Runs JUN. 1 – JUL. 12
NW455: Converging Odor Deep Dive
This class is ALL about Converging Odor…
What IS Converging Odor? Converging Odor occurs when there is at least a partial overlap of scent cones from 2 or more hides. For a dog to work this skill effectively, they need to understand how to work GROUPS of hides without getting stuck on one particular hide for perpetual reinforcement. The dog also needs to have minimal latency in returning to the search process after finding a hide. This means that once a hide is found, the dog immediately goes back to searching. This requires FOCUS and ENGAGEMENT.
This class will use my signature method utilizing the dog’s innate ability to pattern in order to create an expectation of a hide nearby. I introduced this method in my popular workshop “The Key to Convergence: Using Patterning to Build Expectation”. This class replaces, overhauls, enhances, and upgrades my original converging odor class NW241: Nosework Challenges Series 2. You will learn my patterning method and then apply it in all sorts of scenarios that challenge your dog including the use of thermals and complicated air flow.
NOTE: This class will offer a Teaching Assistant (TA) who will be available to Silver and Bronze students in the Study Group. FDSA TA’s will answer questions and review videos in the Student Study Group.
Self Study Classes
Learn at your own pace with Self Study Classes! You get all the lectures and example videos from the original course all for only $50
Learn WHY your dog might be smashing boxes and learn HOW to fix it.
This class will lead you through diagnosis of your box smashing problem and then will give you the necessary steps to address the CORE ISSUE.
This class is designed with written assignments and thought provoking questions that students will use to discuss how to PLAN AND RUN a successful in person Nosework class.
PLEASE NOTE: This class will NOT teach how to teach Nosework… we have other classes for that! In fact, this class will be methodology agnostic… please feel free to participate regardless of your methods for introducing odor.
This self-study option is a series of three recorded webinars that work together. There are no written lectures. Webinars include:
- The Single Hide
- Multiple Hides
- Blank Areas