John Haudenshield Webboard User Reg: 07-12-2001
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SchH and IPO are equivelant. There are a few minor differences, but that's it. A few differences are (correct me if I'm wrong)
1. Courage Test: In IPO the handler cannot hold the dog by the collar as the helper emerges from the blind
2. After the blind search in IPO, I think the handler goes to the dog and heels him away from the helper vs. calling the dog out of the B&H to the heel position.
Basically minor stuff like that. Again I'm not 100% sure of the specifics, but the differences are minor.
SchH used to be limited to Germany, so IPO was developed by the FCI as an International style competition. IPO is to SchH, kind of like Mondio Ring is to the other ringsports.
SchH=IPO=VH=BHP, all of these have nearly requirements.
John,
As I understood things YEARS ago when I messed around with Sch:
The term Sch could only apply to the US and German versions of the program. Otherwise it was termed IPO or one of the others that you mentioned. There are minor rule/exercise differences as you point out, but that was about it. The programs were virtually identical (we're talking 10 to 12 years ago). Things could be quite different today.
Comparing Sch/IPO to the various Ringsports (BR, FR, MR) is not truly a fair comparison, as the Ringsport programs tend to vary more greatly in execution/function than IPO/Sch (IMO). FR and MR are similar, but I couldn't take one of my FR dogs to an MR trial and hope to accomplish anything without a BUNCH of extra training, and vice versa.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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