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Advanced Freestyle Video
by Mary Ray

This video starts with Mary's stunning "Top Hat" routine from Crufts 2001 filmed live before an audience of 5,000 spectators in the Main Ring at Crufts.

As the name suggests, this video goes through the more advanced Freestyle moves some of which are working two dogs, walking backwards, reversing between your legs, standing on back legs, high fives, face and target training etc.  It also goes into more advanced methods of training with a clicker including how you can train the advanced moves with a clicker and also how to use free time to your advantage.

The video finishes with excerpts from Mary's very popular "Canine Cabaret Night".  Mary has entertained audiences throughout the United Kingdom with this magical three hour show where she demonstrates exactly what her dogs are capable of and her training methods, sometimes in the most amusing way.  It also illustrates the superb relationship she has with her dogs.

This 110-minute long video is now available from the Musical Dog Sport Association.

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Mary Ray

Mary Ray is one of the leading dog trainers in the United Kingdom and is the only handler to have achieved such success in many different disciplines of dog training with the same dogs.  She has been twice winner of the Crufts Obedience Championships, has qualified or won every major British dog agility competition and is the leading authority on Freestyle and Heelwork to Music, having started the sport in the United Kingdom in 1990.   Mary is featured on British television on a regular basis and has instructed and/or judged throughout the world.

These video tapes have proved to be the best selling series of dog training videos available in the United Kingdom and they are also becoming increasingly popular throughout Europe, Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.  In these videos, Mary explains in detail how successful results can be achieved using kind training methods, in particular toys, food and the clicker.

In these videos, Mary mainly uses her own brown and white Border Collies which vary in age from 21 months to 7 years.  She also uses a rescue Sheltie called Gypsy who Mary was given when she was a very shy 14 months old bitch.   The exercises in all these videos are explained in a very simple way, with Mary giving her thoughts in detail behind all the training methods used.

It is worth noting that in the United Kingdom, the household name for Freestyle is Heelwork to Music and although the term Freestyle is now being used as well, when the British talk about Heelwork to Music it can be read to mean what a lot of the rest of the world calls Freestyle - it is not just about heel work and close working.

 

 


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