Spring Training Camp (All Breeds) - 19th to 23rd May 2025

Clean up your handling skills and develop a better approach to your gundog training at our Spring Training Camp.

Are your handling skills holding your gundog’s training back? While much of the focus is placed on what our dogs are learning in their gundog training classes, a great deal of our dog's successes in training, in competitions, and when working in the field, can be attributed to our handling methods.

This full week of training will help you get your gundog training off to the best possible start in 2025. By focusing mainly on you, the handler, we will look to develop your skills in how you manage yourself and equipment during training and how you communicate what you want all of which will improve the quality of behaviours displayed by your dog.

Our Spring Camp will cover topics including:

• Reinforcement management
• Cue delivery
• Cue selection
• Temporary cues, including the benefits of changing cues and when to, how to and why to
• Shaping behaviour
• Isolation of cues
• Troubleshooting and how to manage errors
• Play and its importance in gundog training
• How to build behaviour and create crisp and clean responses to cues

The exercises will be set to meet the needs of the participants on the day. It will be a fun task-based programme of learning for you with your dog.