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Adele Yunck’s Online Competition Obedience Classes

In 2020, with her dog training school shut down due to COVID, Adele Yunck began to create online competition obedience courses.

The online course videos and handouts are hosted on the Thinkific website. You can find Northfield Dog Training’s main page here.

When you sign up for a course, you have 6 months of full access to all the videos and handouts for the course. You may also extend that access for the cost of $10/month by contacting Adele.

Students may sign up to audit any of these courses at any time. You may progress at your own speed. If you are self-motivated, this can be a great option for you.

There are two possible avenues for working spots:

Hybrid version: students watch a series of videos for each module and begin training at home. Students meet in person once a week with Adele to review the skills started at home.

Zoom version: Adele occasionally offers a Zoom meeting every other week for students who don’t live in her area. Up to 6 students take turns working on the class skills on camera, with real-time critiques from Adele. Adele records the Zoom classes and shares the video with class members for review. We use the Slack app to communicate and share information about the course.

FCOOL Fundamentals of Competition Obedience Online Modules 1-6

Auditing

Interested in a working spot? Please email Adele Yunck to find out when she will offer the next Hybrid or Zoom class.

Learn how to start numerous crucial foundation skills with your competition-bound puppy. Join author and instructor Adele Yunck as she shares her 30+ years of knowledge in how to start your puppy on the journey to obedience and Rally titles. Adele shows you how to use food to

Teach attention
Position changes (sit, down, and stand)
Recall foundations
Basics of starting heeling
Sit stay
Retrieve
Platform and Perch work
Beginning target games
Basic husbandry that all puppies should learn

FCOOL 7-12 – Fundamentals of Competition Obedience Online – Modules 7-12

Auditing

Interested in a working spot? Please email Adele Yunck to find out when she will offer the next Hybrid or Zoom class.

Continue to build on crucial foundation skills with your competition-bound puppy. Join author and instructor Adele Yunck as she shares her 30+ years of knowledge in how to continue your puppy on the journey to obedience and Rally titles. The course continues to build on the skills started in FCOOL, including:

Heeling
Sit stay
Retrieving
Recalls
Position changes

New skills include:

Down stay and stand stay
Starting go-outs
Heel Position Maneuvers

Side step right
Side step left
Dizzy Spins (tight turn to right)
Left quarter turns
Hop and Heel Starts
Back up
Scoot sits

Heeling Online – Modules 13-18

Auditing

Interested in a working spot? Please email Adele Yunck to find out when she will offer the next Hybrid or Zoom class.

We continue to build on skills that I teach in FCOOL and FCOOL 7-12. We work on all the components of a heeling pattern as individual skills, gradually combining them into full heeling patterns. These include:

Footwork for heeling
Left, right, and about turns
Pace changes (slow and fast)
Halts
Right and Left Circles —> Figure 8s
Various heeling drills for improving heeling skills

Maneuvers Online with Adele Yunck – Audit only

Teach your dog critical skills for competition obedience and Rally:

Back up
Side-step to left and right
Powerful heel starts
Tight turns to the right and left

Before starting this course: your dog should have basic attention on you, and you should be able to get your dog to sit from a stand and stand from a sit.

Problems that the course will help solve:

Dog’s lack of body awareness
Heel position errors (lagging, forging, wide, side-winding, crowding)
Recommended minimum space for training: 10′ x 10′ area.
Equipment needed: leash, collar, treats, perch (4-quart rubber horse feed tub works well – the Recommended equipment video will explain further), small rug or crate pad. Optional: touch stick for a small dog (a 3-foot dowel would work for this).
There are over 3.5 hours of video lessons, divided into six modules, each with 8-12 video lessons. All of the course videos and handouts are hosted on the Thinkific platform. You will have a full 6 months of access to all the videos starting the first time you sign in to the course player.
The Maneuvers introduced in the FCOOL 7-12 course are the early videos from this Maneuvers On-Line course. If you take this course before the FCOOL 7-12 course, contact me for a special discount. If you want to go beyond the steps we do in the FCOOL 7-12 course, you can also get a discount on this course to extend the Maneuvers skill set.

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Lisa Minnick

04:45 30 Jan 23

Great place! Knowledgeable instructors. Adele understands how to help people start with the very basics for a great foundation for a lifetime of success for hoke life and performance

Cleo Parker

17:35 09 Mar 22

Great for competition obedience and rally. Adele is completely breed agnostic and will help you adapt methods for your dog.

Chris-Ann Paterson Welton

22:58 03 Aug 20

Our experiences at Northfield Dog Training have tremendously enhanced our Golden Retriever's abilities and our overall relationship with him. We have all learned so much. We are honored to have Adele as an advanced obedience instructor and can't wait for what is next. Terry has also taught and helped us so much with the puppy training and to receive a Canine Good Citizen Title. All of our other interactions with folks there have been great as well. Wonderful teachers and people overall!

Kabrina Rozine

02:03 22 Dec 18

I have two dogs attending agility classes with Karen Tudor at NDT. Talk about a fabulous experience! Karen adjusts her teaching style to meet the needs of her students and their dogs. She understands the training goals each student has and helps them to work toward their personal goal. It doesn’t matter if your goal is to compete or to just have more fun with your furry best friend. If you are looking for a friendly and supportive environment that produces results when you are willing to put in the work, run (don’t walk) to Northfield!

Heather Ks

08:41 10 May 18

Great place to learn agility and hone your skills whether you are beginner or seasoned pro! Karen Tudor is an awesome trainer whether you are just starting out or looking for help in competition. She gives you the basics in the intro classes with a lot of foundation work needed for you to build on for future plus creating a better bond with you and your dog. For the beginner class, it's a great place to start to see if agility something for you and your dog. ?. In the advanced classes, she provides tools needed to compete in agility with your four legged friend. For competition level, you are given feedback to make your weekend trials more successful! Karen ROCKS!!