Xen

October
19 Lessons
- Xen's first day - pocket hand, front, toys, switch, fetch
  Start
- First bite development and second session of pocket hand
  Start
- Car socialization
  Start
- Platform, nosebridge, chin rest & a little play
  Start
- Start of tiny tugs, toy returns, and more heeling
  Start
- Visiting the horse park!
  Start
- Shaping fly, touch, and retrieve
  Start
- Switch with bite toys and retrieve
  Start
- Heeling without a cookie! Plus more on shaping touch, retrieve and fly
  Start
- Switch, nose target, back up, front, retrieve, cones, and fitness
  Start
- Switch game and contact heeling
  Start
- Play at tennis courts
  Start
- Cones, contact heel, catch, and switch
  Start
- Interactive play with toys in house
  Start
- Interactive play with toys in the house
  Start
- Tennis courts - catch, chase, sit to stand, pivots, retrieve
  Start
- Play with two toys
  Start
- Full session: frisbee, fitness, heeling, and bitework
  Start
- Scent work after a few days
  Start
November
26 Lessons
- Scent Articles: Lesson 1
  Start
- Articles: Lesson 3
  Start
- Increasing fight drive
  Start
- Restrained recall
  Start
- Shaping retrieve, personal play, and toy play
  Start
- Bite development - pushing in
  Start
- Shaping with "Energy"
  Start
- 3rd session on bite sleeve
  Start
- Tug, ball in hand, pivots, and ball
  Start
- Leg sleeve - 3rd session
  Start
- Pushing Bite and stand to down on platform
  Start
- Retrieves! The secret sauce
  Start
- Pushing bite and stand to down on platform
  Start
- Getting on sleeve
  Start
- Shaping play
  Start
- Retrieve - the "anti-click"
  Start
- Introducing switching between toys and food
  Start
- Shaping play part 2
  Start
- Socialization to things
  Start
- Using scatter for ball feelings
  Start
- Personal play with a tarp
  Start
- Playing tug with another person
  Start
- Two toy game for ball possessiveness
  Start
- Growling - fun or insecure?
  Start
- First search for mondioring
  Start
- Whistle recalls with other person and dog
  Start
December
33 Lessons
- Flirt pole for out
  Start
- Scatter for toy release
  Start
- Out, switch, discrimination, and failure!
  Start
- Start of impulse control with flirt pole
  Start
- Close retrieve, contact heeling for toy and other stuff
  Start
- Normal unsure puppy behavior
  Start
- Socialization without greeting
  Start
- Possession - hard morning!
  Start
- Clarity of position cues and discrimination
  Start
- More shaping with toy and food switching
  Start
- Shaping place with a toy
  Start
- First shaping around cone with toy
  Start
- Second shaping around cone with toy
  Start
- People are boring fail
  Start
- First lesson in hand down for heeling plus more food training
  Start
- Two toy issues - holding the first toy
  Start
- Distraction, nose bridge, retrieve and arm down position
  Start
- Success with returning toy and scatter
  Start
- Increasing arousal through play to get a successful "out"
  Start
- Rebuilding trust around toy
  Start
- Circle walking method around horse park
  Start
- Huge improvement in building trust
  Start
- Progress in heeling
  Start
- Retrieve: proofing the hold
  Start
- Self control and ball play compilation
  Start
- Adding stress and going "straight" into stress
  Start
- Adding restraint, handling impulse error and hoarding
  Start
- First lesson heeling for toy
  Start
- Heeling outside for toy second time
  Start
- Fronts from the beginning
  Start
- Holding toy in work plus first toy releases
  Start
- Raising criteria in contact heeling
  Start
- Training away from home with a friend
  Start
January
43 Lessons
- Pushing heeling, contact heeling and games
  Start
- First rotation and control for bite with another person
  Start
- Nose touch and leaving work
  Start
- Heeling with cue discrimination and adding an object to contact heeling
  Start
- Scent discrimination
  Start
- First time with the jump
  Start
- Life skill - dealing with barking when people arrive to house
  Start
- Retrieve with sit and scent work error
  Start
- Bite techniques for pushing in and toy return
  Start
- First session with sit in heel
  Start
- How to encourage "pushing in" in tug
  Start
- Second lesson on front for a toy with platform
  Start
- Fronts - adding the cone for speed & distance
  Start
- Pressure vs. Pushing in
  Start
- More fronts!
  Start
- Raising Criteria in Scent Discrimination
  Start
- Out vs Whistle Recall Confusion
  Start
- Cueing your heeling
  Start
- More pushing in toy training
  Start
- Moving leg sleeve onto body
  Start
- First down and out combination
  Start
- Day at the park with distractions
  Start
- Fitness via positions
  Start
- First bite work with decoy
  Start
- Part 2 of first bite work session
  Start
- Juxtaposition training - contact heeling vs regular heeling
  Start
- Contact heel, go outs, and formal heeling
  Start
- 3rd session with the decoy!
  Start
- First out, guard for toy, contact heeling, guest arrives
  Start
- Rhythm in heeling
  Start
- Stress and cue discrimination
  Start
- Pivots
  Start
- Jumps in front of platform
  Start
- Guarding decoy, accessories, face attack
  Start
- Go to platform, contact and formal heeling
  Start
- Retrieve from ground
  Start
- Dumbbell retrieve from behind
  Start
- Hard verbal correction in heeling
  Start
- First 5 minutes of training
  Start
- Chair and contact heeling
  Start
- Speed with dissociation
  Start
- Unedited cue discrimination
  Start
- Structured shaping vs. Luring
  Start
February
15 Lessons
- Release from leg sleeve onto toy
  Start
- Fast-paced heeling with natural arm position
  Start
- Position Changes
  Start
- First release off sleeve
  Start
- Retrieve novel object success
  Start
- Proper release off toy
  Start
- Object guard
  Start
- Handling overrotation in heeling
  Start
- Parallel walking
  Start
- Removing props
  Start
- Responses to "out"
  Start
- First out & down off leg sleeve
  Start
- Patterning high jump and flyball
  Start
- Fitness
  Start
- Patterns to a place or object
  Start
March
16 Lessons
- Escort - follow toy without biting
  Start
- Down for object guard retrain
  Start
- Unpredictable and adding cues
  Start
- Games to maintain attention
  Start
- Back to foundations
  Start
- Settle stay in training area
  Start
- Unpredictability & adding cues
  Start
- Problem solving 4-foot box turn for flyball
  Start
- Habituation
  Start
- Introducing the bite suit
  Start
- Behavior work at home
  Start
- Clean outs off bite suit & toy play
  Start
- Restraint at the vet
  Start
- Skills & cue transfer with another person
  Start
- Control around suit & working on cues
  Start
- 4 Games for decoys
  Start
April
19 Lessons
- Front drills
  Start
- Heeling drill: pulling right
  Start
- Adding cue & cue discrimination
  Start
- Look and go to toy
  Start
- Adolescent ass crate training
  Start
- Car crate training
  Start
- Collar grab to toy
  Start
- Fronts: Removing hand help
  Start
- Leash skills, food refusal, contact and cavaletti
  Start
- Work in public with focus games
  Start
- More work in public with speed
  Start
- Working with Dawn + get ready cue
  Start
- Car socialization to people without food
  Start
- Muzzle training
  Start
- Harness training
  Start
- Bite work gear training
  Start
- Food refusal + down to stand
  Start
- Mondio obedience and bite work
  Start
- Unedited routine training
  Start
May
29 Lessons
- Fast stand and stop for relaxation work
  Start
- Park and pairing distractions with play
  Start
- Away from home and ready to work
  Start
- Sendout in front of toddler area
  Start
- Arm behind head heel position
  Start
- Chin rest for retrieve
  Start
- New object hold
  Start
- Holds: reducing value
  Start
- Issue with retreive
  Start
- Object guard progress
  Start
- CGC prep + reducing possession
  Start
- Send outs away from home
  Start
- Contact heeling with "get ready"
  Start
- Object guard in distraction frame
  Start
- Send out and escort
  Start
- "Out" from high arousal
  Start
- Adding obstacles to contact heeling + intermediate skills
  Start
- Informal walk - leash skills
  Start
- Moving from house to training area
  Start
- Object guard with wheelchair
  Start
- Object guard with bite suit
  Start
- "With me" from house with punishment
  Start
- Wheelchair object guard
  Start
- Object guard with a new object!
  Start
- Subtle shaping
  Start
- Distraction and position changes in the house
  Start
- Working with decoy, Jake
  Start
- New object guard
  Start
- Retrieve with problems
  Start
June
32 Lessons
- 6.1 - Hunt game in house
  Start
- 6.2 - Hunt games outside
  Start
- 6.3 - dogs in house with workers outside
  Start
- 6.4 - Fronts & holds with tug toy
  Start
- 6.5 - Entries for bite suit work
  Start
- 6.6 - Position changes for lots of food
  Start
- 6.7 - Adding accessories to bite work
  Start
- 6.8 - retrieving different objects showing errors
  Start
- 6.8 - Head cues for heeling
  Start
- 6.9 - Jumping Foundations
  Start
- 6.10 - Jumping Fitness
  Start
- 6.11 - Jump Foundation Progression
  Start
- 6.12 - Object Guard Progression
  Start
- 6.13 - Unedited Jump Training Fitness
  Start
- 6.14 - Speed Changes in Object Guard
  Start
- 6.15 - Contact Heeling Challenges
  Start
- 6.16 - Escort Challenges
  Start
- 6.17 - Defense of Handler
  Start
- 6.18 - Impulse Control for Stay
  Start
- 6.19 - Position Changes Improving
  Start
- 6.20 - Object Guard Progression Recap
  Start
- 6.21 - Jumping Style & Send Outs
  Start
- 6.21 - New Decoy
  Start
- 6.22 - Counter conditioning
  Start
- 6.23 - Jumping & Release Games
  Start
- 6.24 - Counter conditioning continued
  Start
- 6.25 - Position Changes for toy & whistle recall
  Start
- 6.26 - Body Language
  Start
- 6.26 - Pool Games
  Start
- 6.27 - Engagement
  Start
- 6.28 - Go Outs / Send Away
  Start
- 6.30 - Whistle Recall off Sendaway
  Start
July
38 Lessons
- 7.1 - Contact Heeling
  Start
- 7.3 - Retrieve Fixes
  Start
- 7.4 - 30" Elevated Jump
  Start
- 7.5 - Spiral Training
  Start
- 7.6 - Retrieve to hand
  Start
- 7.8 - Closer retrieves with distress
  Start
- 7.9 - Combining retrieve skills
  Start
- 7.10 - Activities to Encourage Retrieving
  Start
- 7.10 - Escort on Suit
  Start
- 7.11 - Defense with Sitting
  Start
- 7.11 - Jumping Failure & Success
  Start
- 7.11 - More Fetch Games
  Start
- 7.12 - More Retrieve
  Start
- 7.14 - Retrieves & Slow Motion Jumps
  Start
- 7.14 - Position Changes for Style
  Start
- 7.15 - Refining Fetch
  Start
- 7.16 - Discs for Jump Pattern
  Start
- 7.17 - Importance of Clarity
  Start
- 7.18 - Cuddle Cue
  Start
- 7.19 - Prey Sequence for Clean Outs
  Start
- 7.20 - Food play & drive switching
  Start
- 7.21 - More drive switching
  Start
- 7.22 - Retrieve to hand
  Start
- 7.23 - Pool Retrieve
  Start
- 7.23 - Proofing Defense of Handler
  Start
- 7.23 - Elements of retrieve with new objects
  Start
- 7.24 - Flyball box work
  Start
- 7.25 - Retrieve Weird Objects
  Start
- 7.26 - Moving chair in retrieve
  Start
- 7.27 - first lesson in search pattern for Mondio
  Start
- 7.27 - Coaching Jake for Search
  Start
- 7.27 - Making it weird
  Start
- 7.28 - Retrieve stuff from chair
  Start
- 7.29 - Defense of Handler with helper
  Start
- 7.30 - Hold random objects
  Start
- First time jump
  Start
- Flyball - Passing dogs
  Start
- Flyball distraction training
  Start
August
19 Lessons
- 37" Jump
  Start
- 8.3 - tuck front and sit with ball and at heel with sloped platform
  Start
- 8.3 - Tuck sits and full session
  Start
- 8.4 - heeling update
  Start
- 8.5 - Food refusal
  Start
- 8.5 - search away from home
  Start
- 8.7 - Jumping video
  Start
- 8.10 - food for positions
  Start
- 8.11 - using suit to search
  Start
- 8.12 - cues, objects & guarding
  Start
- 8.13 - cue discrimination with objects
  Start
- 8.15 - wood on ground
  Start
- 8.17 - arm position to stop forging in heeling
  Start
- 8.18 - Retrieve While Standing
  Start
- 8.20 - Position Changes
  Start
- 8.22 - Stay & Positions
  Start
- 8.24 - Jumping
  Start
- 8.27 - Stay for Jumping
  Start
- 8.30 - Close Fronts Holding an Object
  Start
September
25 Lessons
- Crowding in heeling
  Start
- Flyball tournament - out of crate
  Start
- Toy release (clean outs)
  Start
- Toy play, outs, and start pivots with toy
  Start
- Human error causes dog error
  Start
- Small space skills: targeting the wedge for bite work
  Start
- Targeting & pivots for bite work
  Start
- Scentwork & Retrieve
  Start
- First decoy
  Start
- Adding formality for trial prep
  Start
- Scent work: mixed pile
  Start
- Shit happens -- respond accordingly
  Start
- Positions and heeling struggles
  Start
- Dominance or Confidence?
  Start
- Fronts with & without toy
  Start
- Working with toys off body
  Start
- Positions with toy off body
  Start
- Handling errors in position changes
  Start
- Start of call off with food refusal and fun with fast cues
  Start
- Positions: more experiments
  Start
- Heeling games for focus & precision
  Start
- Positions in bite suit
  Start
- Pressure Release
  Start
- Jumping & fronts
  Start
- Reinforcing biting
  Start
October 2022
26 Lessons
- Positions without platform
  Start
- Bite work: bite development
  Start
- Bite development, fronts, scent work, and stuck!
  Start
- Hard retrieve & heeling with hand down
  Start
- Bite work with Dawn
  Start
- Retrieves & Positions
  Start
- Pain, anger & training
  Start
- Toy & fly for heeling
  Start
- Fronts: all the games!
  Start
- Heeling & cuddles
  Start
- Toy behind for positions
  Start
- Around, jump, stay & heel
  Start
- Fixing heeling & fronts
  Start
- Habit or conscious thought?
  Start
- Xen vs. fishie
  Start
- Stay
  Start
- Leave it to goats: start to finish
  Start
- Jumping
  Start
- Small space skills + rewarding errors
  Start
- Error of positions
  Start
- Proofing stay with distractions
  Start
- Positions, object guard & down stay
  Start
- Calm in crate at flyball
  Start
- Tent for object guard
  Start
- Chasing in flyball
  Start
- Flyball weekend recap
  Start
November 2022
15 Lessons
- Behavior chain to lower arousal
  Start
- Missing jump
  Start
- Reducing reinforcement
  Start
- Front or back clip harness?
  Start
- Jump to send out
  Start
- Positions in heel + lion Xen
  Start
- Concepts around reward placement & positions
  Start
- Classical conditioning for contact heeling & positions
  Start
- Positions, errors, and pressure
  Start
- Third flyball report
  Start
- Games for flyball
  Start
- Push while biting me and pressure
  Start
- Hold until told otherwise
  Start
- Arousal modulation via choice of work
  Start
- Object Guard
  Start
December 2022
29 Lessons
- Contact heeling - make it practical
  Start
- Retrieve odd objects - errors & contact heeling
  Start
- Errors in search + toy play and removing hand in fronts
  Start
- Easy tug + object guard with accessories
  Start
- Forging, contact heeling and human error
  Start
- Long down stay
  Start
- Error of anticipation, or arousal?
  Start
- Garbage truck distraction
  Start
- Object guard - accessories/cues
  Start
- Jumping proofing
  Start
- Position changes with challenges
  Start
- Listening games with a toy
  Start
- Breaking performance-reward relationship
  Start
- Challenge retrieve
  Start
- Removing hand help for fronts
  Start
- Challenging down and sides for positions
  Start
- Stay out of sight with distractions
  Start
- Prevent forging with middle
  Start
- Increase jump, forging prevention, and long stay
  Start
- Retrieve error, desensitization and impulse control!
  Start
- Testing obedience exercises
  Start
- Come close with toy
  Start
- More contact heeling proofing
  Start
- Train for bad weather
  Start
- Focus on errors
  Start
- Backing up for food or toy
  Start
- Attention games
  Start
- Object hold with errors
  Start
- Reward distracted behavior
  Start
January 2023
27 Lessons
- First time backing up with gates
  Start
- More positions and backing
  Start
- Quiet hold and desensitization
  Start
- Adding an obstacle
  Start
- All positions and quiet hold with impulse control
  Start
- More obstacle
  Start
- Fight without tug
  Start
- Play without tug
  Start
- Tiny object retrieve
  Start
- Retrieve over obstacle
  Start
- Problem solving front with object and escort work
  Start
- Positions
  Start
- Prepare for call off
  Start
- Adding pressure to obstacle
  Start
- Handling error by being more wrong
  Start
- Control Games
  Start
- Different perspective of heeling
  Start
- Heeling, distraction, and front
  Start
- Fetch the tent
  Start
- Heeling Progression
  Start
- Looking Away in Heeling
  Start
- Latent Learning
  Start
- Attention From Front
  Start
- Learning Isn't Linear
  Start
- Escort: Adding Challenges
  Start
- Sendaway and using nose
  Start
- Generalized Leave-It
  Start
February 2023
18 Lessons
- Heel vs. "with me," errors, and reducing arousal three ways
  Start
- Scentwork games
  Start
- Heeling warm up and jump anticipation
  Start
- Contact heeling with other dog present
  Start
- Escort: breaking it down
  Start
- Retrieve new object
  Start
- Challenges: make the basic work easier
  Start
- Whole session condensed
  Start
- Why?
  Start
- Building confidence for positions
  Start
- Ring entrances
  Start
- Arousal, motivation & ability
  Start
- All jumps plus handling errors with reward
  Start
- Object guard accessories
  Start
- Escort with obstacles
  Start
- Cleaning up the out
  Start
- Drop cue and unpredictable in jumping
  Start
- Lure with toy and drop cue
  Start

Xen

Sport Foundations

Course Summary

Course Curriculum

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September

October 2022

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December 2022

January 2023

February 2023

Denise Fenzi

John Smith

Highly Recommended Course. Easy to Understand, Informative, Very Well Organized. The Course is Full of Practical and Valuable for Anyone who wants to Enhance their Skills. Really Enjoyed it. Thank you!!

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