This 3 day trailing seminar is for advanced and beginner K9 handlers, search and rescue teams.
The focus will be on reading and translating your dog’s bodylanguage, growing as a team in small steps, surface transitions, distractions, reading the proximity alerts and of course working double blind.
A unique opportunity to refine your knowledge under the watchful eye of trailing master himself!!
14-16 september 2019
- Location: Nazareth (near Ghent, Belgium)
• Price : € 590,- with dog, € 290,- for observers
• Info and registration ONLY by: hondenschool.de.roopoorte@telenet.be
• Limited places available!
More practical information, confirmation en details will be sent by mail.
GAK9 seminar met Jeff Schettler :
Dit 3-daags seminar met Jeff Schettler is een unique kans om onder het oog van de mantrailing meester zelf je vaardigheden aan te scherpen!
Thema’s die aan bod zullen komen zijn vooral het nog beter leren lezen en interpreteren van de lichaamstaal en signalen van je hond, het groeien als een team in kleine stappen, bodemovergangen, afleidingen, proximity signalen opvangen en natuurlijk het dubbel blind uitwerken van trails!
Om de tijd per team te maximaliseren zijn er slechts een beperkt aantal plaatsen voorzien.
Reserveren kan ENKEL via hondenschool.de.roopoorte@telenet.be , meer praktische info, bevestiging van deelname en details krijg je in een antwoord per mail.
About Jeff Schettler :
Jeff Schettler is a retired police K9 handler who worked for the City of Alameda and County of Amador in California and was attached to the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Teams’ K9 Assistance Program for two years. This program was designed to locate and apprehend high-risk fugitives on the run. Jeff has worked hundreds of trailing cases across the USA and is a specialist in the areas of tactical tracking applications. Schettler is a certified military trainer graduating from the prestigious US Army’s Leadership Academy also known as Drill Sergeant School.
Jeff’s work has been seen on CNN, ABC, CBS, Unsolved Mysteries, and Mythbusters. He is considered an expert witness in tracking/ trailing. Jeff writes for K9 Cop Magazine and is the author of four books on K9 Tracking Work published by Alpine Publications:
- Red Dog Rising – a K9 Tracking Autobiography
- K9 Trailing: The Straightest Path Book 1– a primer on starting a K9 team on human scent discrimination and trailing work
- K9 Trailing: Tactical Tracker Teams Book 3 – a practical guide to surviving high risk fugitive manhunts
- The Tao of Trailing – Jeff’s fourth and final book on the art of trailing or tracking human scent with a police, search and rescue, or military K9.
All of Jeff’s books can be ordered from the GAK9 Store @ http://gak9.com
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