In this video Michael Ellis discusses the concept of a full grip in bite work. He explains how the full grip became a part of the sport of schutzhund and the Belgium Ring Spoort. Michael explains why a full grip does not necessarily mean a dog...

The Belgian Ring 1 is the highest level of Belgian Ring. Unlike the sport of Schutzhund where a Schutzhund 3 is the highest, in Belgian the Ring 3 is for the beginners and the Ring 1 is for the old pros. This sport is for the malinois. This is the...

Thank you to all of the competitors, as well as those who came out to help facilitate a successful event at the 2015 NADD dock diving event held at the Michael Ellis school for Dog Trainers. It was a great weekend filled with impressive jumps and ...

Our friend, Julie, and her German Shepherd, Fred, working obedience at a Michael Ellis seminar held in Boston, October 2009. Julie is preparing Fred for the distractions of mondioring obedience. Fred is cross trained in Schutzhund and Mondioring...

I filmed training session of Cindy and Rush at a Michael Ellis training seminar that was held in Iowa this past weekend April 18th and 19th 2009. The focus of this clip will be on polishing the retrieve for Rush, who is 18 months old in this vi...

This video was filmed by a German production company in Germany. It is narrated in German. The Bundessiger is the SV (German Shepherd Dog Club of Germany) national schuthund championships. The video qulaity of this product is not what the trai...

Michael Ellis teaches a trainer how to train the AKC - STAND FOR EXAM in this short video. Michael uses MARKERS to train this exercises.

Have a look at this video of Ed & Cindy's Puppy, Endy, at 9.5 Weeks I can't tell you how often I have heard people say they would like their next puppy to be a high drive dog. My comment is usually "Be careful what you wish for because it ma...

This video explains the horns used in Mondio. It features Cindy Rhodes, Jeremy Norton and Michael Ellis. If your training in the Mondioring you should study this video

Back in April, Michael Ellis was here at Leerburg to film a couple of new protection training DVDs. We filmed one of the foundation of protection training for puppies and adolescent dogs and another on protection exercises trainers can do without ...

Leerburg Online University is excited to announce the release of our newest online course, Developing Your Gun Dog Puppy. This course is taught by Jim Closson, and is offered as a self-study. In this course, you will learn how to introduce your...

PART 2 The image quality of this streaming video is nowhere near the quality it was when it was originally filmed. It is also nowhere near the quality of our current Leerburg training DVDs. Many of the older dog shows and competitions were n...