Seminar

PADS is Proud to host Chris Zink & Janet Gauntt


Chris Zink D.V.M.,.Ph.D. will present a two-day seminar focusing on how the Canine Athlete Academy: Everything you need to know to keep your canine athlete healthy and competing well into the senior years : June 11th-12th, 2011

Chris Zink, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a consultant on canine sports medicine, evaluating canine structure and locomotion, and designing individualized retraining and conditioning programs for canine athletes. She is the award-winning author of Peak Performance: Coaching the Canine Athlete, Dog Health and Nutrition for Dummies, and The Agility Advantage, and co-author of Jumping from A to Z: Teach Your
Dog to Soar and Building the Canine Athlete: Strength, Stretching, Endurance and Body Awareness Exercises. She has obtained more than 70 obedience, agility, retrieving, tracking, and conformation titles on dogs from the sporting, herding, working, terrier, and hound groups.

The broad purpose of the seminar is to provide information on how the canine body works, and what we can do to improve performance and keep our dogs healthy and injury-free. The seminars are highly interactive and provide ample opportunity for attendees and their dogs to participate in structure and gait analysis, lameness evaluation, to practice conditioning exercises with their dogs and to participate in jump-training and exercises appropriate to targeted performance events.

General Topics using participating dogs include:

Canine Structure – What it Means for Performance

* Your dog’s structural strengths and weaknesses
* What those strengths and weaknesses mean for performance
* How to capitalize on your dog’s strengths to maximize
* performance
* Understanding your dog’s weaknesses to minimize injury

The Amazing Canine Athlete

* The six canine gaits and how to put them on cue
* Gaits your dog uses for different performance events
* Abnormal gaits, why they’re abnormal, and how to banish them
* How your dog uses its body in agility/obedience and other events
* Age-related tips for performance training

Jumping – a Core Athletic Activity

* Training jumping – from puppies to seniors
* Lead legs – what they are, why they are important, and how to train your dog to use them appropriately
* Jumping problems – what causes them and how to fix them

Keeping your Athlete at Peak

* Body work for your teammate
* Fitness – it’s easy!
* Balancing strength, endurance, body awareness and stretching exercises
* Nutrition tips for the canine athlete


When Things Go Wrong

* Common athletic injuries your vet might not know about
* How to recognize them and get the best treatment
* Complementary and alternative therapies for healing and improving performance
* Canine rehabilitation – what it is and how to do some of it yourself



Janet Gauntt will be holding a one day seminar at the Pine Agility Dog Sports Club (PADS) grounds on the Friday 10th June 2011 from 9am—4pm.

Janet has been involved in dog agility since 1989. She has been judging since 1990 in the U.S. and internationally. Last year Janet was invited to judge at the World Agility Championships in England. Many of her students have gone on to participate and place in national and international competitions. Janet has been a semi-finalist at USDAA Nationals and Cynosports World Games pretty much every year since 1993 and has made finals four times. She has earned multiple Agility Dog Championships and Lifetime Achievement Awards with her Shelties, Border Collies, and Swedish Vallhund, with her most successful dog, Legend, standing in 16th place overall in USDAA for lifetime Q's. Her current dog is Legend's son, Sequel. He has just turned three years old and is the youngest dog on record to earn USDAA's Lifetime Achievement Award (Bronze, 150 Q's) and was recognized as one of 2010's Top Ten dogs nationally in the categories of Standard, Jumpers, and Snooker.

Her seminar will cover the following topics:

* Solving jumping problems and developing skills
* Contact/Weave-pole problem solving (Janet uses 2O2O for contacts & a combination of 2 x 2 and channels to teach weaves)
* Developing and using a balanced handling system
* Distance training

For further info go to www.pads.org.au