The Restructuring of American Street Ring:

We would like to announce effective April 1, 2004, that the ASR
organization will undergo drastic organizational changes and at that
time will become operated by a five member Board of Directors.
American Street Ring will no longer be operated solely by Ted Hoppe.
The newly organized ASR will be operated as a Florida Not-for-Profit
corporation and will not be connected in any way with the business
interests of any member of its Board.

The Board of Directors will be as follows:

Ken Hungerford
Jay Murphy
Scott Whigham
Craig Pender
Ted Hoppe

Each board member will have an equal voice, and majority vote will
rule. There will be no "veto power," nor is any board member under
the control, influence or employment of another.

With a unanimous vote of the board of directors, ASR's charter will be
written to state that ASR will always contain the elements of Civil
Aggression, Muzzle Attacks, Hidden Sleeve Bites, multiple decoy
scenarios, building searches and woods/area searches. No action by
any future board will be able to remove any of these elements.

Although no drastic rules changes will be implemented, there will be
many operational and procedural changes that will make ASR more clear,
open and understandable. We will make ASR more accessible to anyone
interested by posting current rules, decoy guidelines, and by
explaining infractions and penalties on the "soon- to-be-revamped"
website.

Over the past few years, as interest in the program began to increase,
Ted Hoppe came to realize that, due to business and family time
constraints, he could not dedicate enough time to ASR to keep the
program expanding and growing.


Each of the board members has at one time or another considered this
type change to ASR, and we found ourselves in complete agreement as
far as what would need to happen to help bring the program into the
mainstream. The decision to go ahead with this reorganization was
easily reached, and we all are excited about the future of ASR.

While some changes to the program are inevitable, the Board Members
are dedicated to the original principles under which ASR was founded:

1. To create a network of dog training enthusiasts whose goal is to
promote quality, practical, protection training in a realistic setting.

2. To provide a program that serves as a quality foundation for dogs
entering police or security work.

3. To provide a trial environment in which each dog is tested fairly
and consistently, and evaluated against a standard, without any bias
from the decoys or evaluators.

4. To do all of this in a fun and friendly yet competitive atmosphere.

The Board Members of the "new" American Street Ring are excited at the
opportunity to expand the program to which they have become so
dedicated. Input from interested parties will always be welcome and
well received.

For more information concerning the future of ASR, Please contact:

Jay Murphy (904) 284-9338 or murphy9934@b...<br />Scott Whigham (904) 465-0499 or rvrctyrngr@r...<br />Ken Hungerford kenh@n...<br />Craig Pender wcpender@a...<br />
Thank you.

Will i have read your post on this discussion board before, as you have shown some interset in american street ring, so from you post when you refer to we have you now gotten involved in asr?

Sounds like a good thing for this Network that I follow.Ted has done a fine job too this point & now with more dedicated board members all of whom I know, AMERICAN STREET RING will continue too rise.ULYSEE

Sorry, Folks....

The email addresses for Directors got cut off when this was originally posted. The correct info is as follows:

Jay Murphy (904) 284-9338 or murphy9934@bbellsouth.net<br />
Scott Whigham (904) 465-0499 or rvrctyrngr@rivercityringers.com<br />
Ken Hungerford kenh@nettally.com<br />Craig Pender wcpender@aol.com<br />
Happy and SAFE Training,
Scott

I've always been intrigued by ASR. Do you know any ASR people in Central Florida that I could train with?

Michael,

There's a guy in Roseland, Florida named David Smith who is involved in ASR the last time I checked. You can e mail him at ..Dogman@vero.com<br />
If that email address is no longer any good, send me a private message and I will send you some contact numbers. He used to own a company called Canine Security but I dont know if he still does. Been a couple years since I talked to him.

Yep, 'Dogman Dave' is still alive and kickin'. Saw him just a couple of months ago. His current email address is: asrdogman@asrdogman.com<br />
Happy and SAFE Training,
Scott

Just a quick note.

The ASR organization is still in the process of informing all ASR competitors about the upcoming changes, so there is still a good possibility that not all of those competitors are up to date with the changes.

So you best bet to get up to date information is via E mail from one of the board of directors as indicated in the first post in this thread - that way there's no chance for mis-communication! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

And as always, I'll be happy to communicate via this board or by PM's, if you they are questions that I can answer.

Should have most of a new Website up and running by the end of the weekend. Will let ya'll know when it's accessible.

The new address will be:
http://americanstreetring.org to reflect the Non-Profit status of the organization.

Allen,
Yep, I'm actively training for ASR now - although I will still be putting SchH titles on Fetz first.
But I can coast on my experience and knowledge base for SchH, I've been doing it for two decades now - although since I've started to attend Flinks seminars, I've regained my love of training again! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But with ASR, it's a new way of looking at things, and that increases the fun factor for training many fold.

Our 'Working Dog Club" does about 75% SchH and 25% ASR. Our most talented member has been a long time ASR trainer and his helper work has to be seen to be believed. He also has an IPO III dog and I'm predicting he'll be in the top five dogs in DVG for years to come - so you can train for both.
Time will tell! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />