Adele's Training Videos
Sonic at 8 weeks
Photo by Wendy Tisdall
When Adele brought home her Flat-Coated Retriever puppy "Sonic" in October of 2011, she started producing short videos of training sessions. The ones she has finished are organized by classes and by areas of training. You can also see all of the videos Adele has posted on her YouTube channel.
Adele's Maneuvers Class
Maneuvers is Adele's second level competition obedience class. The class builds on the Fundamentals exercises and introduces all the directional commands: the dog learns how to move forward, back in heel position, side-step right, side-step left, dizzy spins to the right and rear end pivots to the left. The dogs are introduced to beginning Rhythm Heeling, sit stay proofing, and a sit for exam. All of the exercises are foundation exercises for obedience and rally obedience. Many are also useful for field dogs.
The exercises are introduced in class in the week listed.
If there isn't a link, it means Adele hasn't released a video on that topic
The exercises are introduced in class in the week listed.
Week 1
Back in heel positionWeek 2
Sit stay with simple proofing
Heel starts
Week 3
Cookie-toss recalls with chutes
In (Left quarter turns)
Cookie-toss down with a barrier - Stage 3 & 4
Week 4
Sit for exam
Week 5
Hip down
Bouncing
Week 6
Restrained recalls into chutes
Here is a video overview of many of the exercises that you will learn in the class: