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Modern training techniques with a focus on your dogs body and emotions

You and your canine partner can learn how to teach new behaviours for life, or sports with positive reinforcement based training. 

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About Hybrid Training

Hybrid Training is all about developing happy and healthy dogs, and successful competitive teams. 

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By using clear and positive training methodology,  combining aspects of fitness and bodywork, enrichment, and lifestyle choices you can make sure you canine teammates are healthy and happy, to make for a successful performance, pet, or therapy teams. 

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Accomplishments

  • Titling a number of dogs to Champion and Grand Champion level across multiple sports

  • Titling dogs in a large range of sports including tricks, obedience, agility, fly, rally-o, nosework and more

  • Deo top 10 in Dog Almighty TV series. 

  • Flori and Grid - RJHS School Support Dogs

  • Starting the 'School Support Dogs' group and helping a number of other schools start the process of having school support dogs. 

  • Providing animal talent, and managing animal talent in a number of commercial projects including Animals LIke Us advertising, 'Bonkers' pet treats advertising, a TV add , and a James Hardy ad video. 

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Teaching via the following platforms (other than this website)

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Collaborations and Projects

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    Scribbler 2022 Pet Coat Range consultant

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Qualifications and Certifications

  • BSc Zoology, MSc Zoology (University of Otago)

  • Postgraduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching (AUT)

  • RockTape introduction and Canine Kinestheology taping

  • NorthEast seminars Rocktape FMT Canine Kinestheology Taping Certification

  • Certified Canine Fitness Trainer (FitPaws and University of Tennessee)

  • Fear Free Animal Trainer

  • Fenzi Dog Sports Academy Sports Foundation Trainer

  • Dogs Naturally University Raw Food Specialist certified

  • Certificate in Canine Mobility

  • Canine Myo-manipulative Functional Therapy (Canine massage)

  • SSANZ Novice Judge​​

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APDTNZ Member       IAABC Member

IAAMB Member

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Tonka

I've trained my dogs with HDT for several years, across numerous disciplines including agility, fitness, nose work and more. Kelly is extremely knowledgeable, patient and a great communicator. She has experience working with multiple breeds, sizes and has a particular strength and interest for working with dogs who are challenged by the environment.

Rob

I have learnt a lot from Kelly's seminar's, both handling skills and fitness/conditioning. They are always well thought out, tailored to suit your ability, and delivered with endless energy and enthusiasm, an obvious passion for Kelly. 

My dog especially enjoys the fitness/conditioning exercises as they are taught in a fun positive way and are like tricks to him. 

Maree

Kelly has taught me such a lot of good dog exercises and all of these are fun.  The high reward training is fun for my dogs, increases their desire to perform the exercises, and is helping with muscle development and fitness.  And all the while Kelly is encouraging and helping me to improve and get the best from it

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Tracey

We have done a private agility training, fitness work Hybrid Training and several of Kelly Daniels fenzi workshops. I always find Kelly to be extremely knowledgable and helpful in every instance. I have a very nervous dog and with advice from the workshops, online seminars and in person my dogs confidence is steadily growing.

She has fantastic insight and 

relationships with all types of dogs and tonnes of experience she is more than willing to share. Highly reccomended.

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FDSA Fit to Jump

Kelly was supportive and had a great eye for suggesting slight changes in mechanics or positioning to make the exercises more successful. We learned a lot and the changes in my dog's physique over the 6wks was definitely noticeable!!

 

Kelly is a great coach! The videos were super-helpful with different size and experience dogs. They made each exercise seem very do-able. I enjoyed this course a lot as did my class dog and the others who followed along with all the exercises. I feel I have a library of exercises for future use and I know what they are all for.

 

This was my first gold class and I’m so glad I did it! Kelly’s feedback was always clear and helpful for tweaking and progressing with the fitness exercises, we would not have improved so far in 6 weeks without it. And now I have a bank of exercises we are confident in and some to work on, that I can combine into a variety of workouts to keep moving forward. My dogs look forward to their evening fitness sessions!

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FDSA Geeky Fitness

Kelly really puts her ALL into this class. She works with each dog individually and her feedback is detailed and laser-focused. She makes it very easy for the student to get it right. Her depth and breadth of knowledge with dogs of all shapes and sizes creates a learning environment that makes it super comfortable to show our difficulties and her feedback was like a series of lightbulb moments. I'm not new to canine fitness, and I would highly recommend this course to beginners and more experienced folks alike. Thank you Kelly, you are an exceptional instructor.

 

Awesome course. The amount of good, usable information in an easy to understand format combined with the demonstrations made carrying her techniques over to my own dog’s so much easier. Highly recommend this course!

 

Kelly is very knowledgeable and a fantastic teacher. Any class, workshop or webinar by her I’ll definitely register. Can I give her 10 stars? She is amazing!

 

Kelly did a great job of evaluating videos, answering questions, and offering many different resources to help students learn how to train various fitness exercises for their individual dog. She was always willing to deep dive into the geeky parts of structure and fitness as well. I would happily take more classes with her!

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Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

I'm proud to be a faculty staff presenter at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. This  is a world wide leader in innovative pet and performance dog training. 

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Past webinar, workshops and classes at FDSA: 

 

Upcoming classes: 

The Hybrid Training Crew

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