4 Day Tracking Course with Steve Mann

4 day Tracking course presented by Steve Mann

Steve has extensive experience teaching recreational, competition and operational tracking dogs worldwide.

Everyone welcome, no previous experience needed.

Choice of dates:-

2nd - 5th September 2024
Venue
Staffordshire County Showground
Weston Road
Stafford
ST18 0BD

8th - 11th April 2025
15th - 18th April 2025
Venue:
Elsted VH 
Elsted 
West Sussex 
GU29 0JY





10am-4pm each day

We’ve secured 100+ acres of tracking land so make sure you pack your sturdy boots!

The course includes the 4 days, PLUS a live Zoom meeting a month after the course, this will be an evening session 6-8pm date tbc, for us to review where you’re at with your tracking, to troubleshoot any questions you may have and for us to plan your personal tracking career into the future…as well as a nice catch up to find out how your other course colleagues & dogs are progressing with their Tracking.

Beware, there will be homework for you to complete between your practical course and the remote catch-up!

The Zoom meeting with Steve will be ‘live’, but will be recorded for you should you be unable to attend.


Attendees are invited to bring a dog to the course, and the event is limited to a max of 16 attendees

If you do not have a dog to bring, you are still welcome to book and attend Course content:-

• Tracking; the many definitions and applications
• The whats, whys & hows
• Equipment checklist
• Terrain considerations
• Articles; selection & handling
• Teaching the article indication
• Training strategies for article-work
• Independent article-work
• Performance mapping
• Track laying
• Body language
• Line handling methods
• Building speed / decreasing speed!
• Motivation tracks
• Environmental influences
• Back chaining the tracking
• Accurate cornering
• Ageing
• Teaching others

'Tracking is the best activity you can do with your dog' - SM

Do it, you'll never look back!