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Post by aktyson on Mar 8, 2006 1:44:40 GMT 1
Does anyone on this board do FCI obedience? I'm curious about the similarities & differences between FCI & AKC formal obedience. I'd love to learn new teaching methods/exercises.
Thx, Anne
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Post by ralph on Mar 14, 2006 21:00:45 GMT 1
Anne
Anne
We dutch have two different (somewhat simular) things
obedience and something called Behaviour & obedience (i've translated this but let's refer to it as G&G)
I'm not aware of any differences between FCI and AKC formal obedience.
G&G is an other ballgame but there are simularities with obedience, for example scent discrimination, the retrieve, change of positions at a distance
Differences then? the heelwork, if i'm not mistaken the dog has to keep in contact with his
handler. When you participate in G&G, heelwork like that is like cursing in the church, NO PHYSICAL CONTACT. In the G&G world you would call that blocking.
I'm not only a trainer of gundogs but i also teach G&G courses, so what new teaching methodes are you searching for. I'm always curious for different methodes, for example how do you train your dog for heelwork with so much physical contact. Sure i can teach a dog that but i'm just curious how you people do it.
gr. Ralph
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Post by aktyson on Mar 24, 2006 23:35:30 GMT 1
Ralph,
Sorry its taken so long to get back here. In AKC our dogs lose marks every time they bump or crowd in heeling so maybe it is similar to FCI heeling. They need to stay in heel position with a small amount of space between the dog & handler.
Our exercises at the Utility level include: signals; directed retrieve; directed jumping; moving stand for exam & scent articles. The way it works in AKC is that each dog starts with 200 points and the team loses points as they make errors. If an exercise is not completed correctly the dog loses all the points available for that exercise and will NQ (non-qualify) for the class. Is that similar to FCI?
Thx, Anne
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