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Newsletter ADELAIDE SPORTDOG CLUB December 2008 This is our first Newsletter of the Adelaide Sportdog Club from South Australia. We started of with our training in September 2008. The Adelaide Sportdog Club was founded by a group of enthusiastic dog fanciers and friends; the primary objective of the members is to enjoy working and training dogs in a co-operative and professional way with similar minded people. Members of the Adelaide Sportdog Club will work towards enhancing public understanding of Dog sport and participate in all dog-related activities in Australia. The Adelaide Sportdog Club is located at the Eastern Parade, Wingfield Football Club in Adelaide. The members and their dogs train here twice a week, Wednesday evening from 7.30pm and Saturday mornings from 7.30am. If visitors are in the area and they want to visit us or they want to join for a few training sessions, feel free to contact us and we will make sure that we will be there and help you out with our training facilities. Also feel free to just come around for a look and a chat because we all like to share dog knowledge and we want to learn from each other. 2008 has been a busy year already for the Adelaide Sportdog Club. We have been busy with setting up the Club up and still working on it. We have visited with a couple of members of the National Championship of Australia 2008 at the Gold Coast in Queensland hosted by the Gold Coast Sportdog Club. We from the Adelaide Sportdog Club want to congratulate the competitors and their dogs with their results and especially Alison Kollenberg with Nordenstamm Hassan who became the National Champion of Australia 2008. At the Nationals we participated in the Seminar from Utah Bindels and some training sessions from Hermann Geering both from Germany and we took these experiences with us back to South Australia. We have been over for a couple of weekends to Victoria with a few members and our dogs and visited the Eagle Heights Sportdog Club in Melbourne. Here we had some very important training sessions for our dogs and ourselves how to train with our dogs in the Schutzhund Sport. We want to thank Luc Cendak, Phil Triantafillou and the other members of the Eagle Heights Sportdog Club for giving us the chance and the time to learn and to participate in their training sessions. And as usual we are looking forward to going back and training again with these wonderful people and to step up to the next level. By knowing that we have a lot of levels to go before we can be of any competition for all the competing Clubs in Australia! Also we had a visit this year to New South Wales, to the Waratah Sportdog Club in Sydney. Michael was lucky to participate in a Seminar weekend with Istvan Lakatos from Melbourne. Nathan McCredie, Ilana Hepner, Istvan Lakatos and the other members of the Waratah Sportdog Club thank you for sharing your time and dog-training knowledge. These experiences also came back to South Australia and help us out with becoming more experienced as a new Schutzhund Club. The Adelaide Sportdog Club also participated in the beginning of November 2008 for the first time in the young history of the Club in the first Trial for a BH test at the summer Club Trials from the Eagle Heights Sportdog Club in Melbourne, Victoria. Michael and his dog Angus failed for the BH test but went back to South Australia with very important Trial experiences. Congratulations to all the competitors and their dogs with their results. We, the visitors Alex, Ryan, Matt and Michael want to thank the Eagle Heights Sportdog Club, all the competitors, the Trial Secretary Adrianna Bianconi, the Trial Judge Jens Kollenberg and apprentice Judge Luc Cendak, the Tracklayers Phil Triantafillou and David Sambell for all their time and their effort to help us out with all our questions about the Schutzhund Sport. Again this was a very important learning weekend for all of us and we will keep on training to get it right! And yes we are already looking forward to the next event to meet you all again.  Overall we had a busy year as we said, but a wonderful year. We have done a lot so far and we still have a lot to do in the near future. This year we will keep on training till the 10th of December and finish off with a nice Club BBQ and we will start our Summer Holiday break. We will start off in 2009 at the 26th of January with our training sessions again for the new season. In this new season we will organise our first events like the official Club opening event, Seminars and hopefully our first Trials. Plenty of things to organise and have a lot of meetings! The Adelaide Sportdog Club likes to thank everybody again for their time and their support in the beginning of our journey as a Club. Also the people we didn’t mention in this newsletter but who were important to us as well in setting up the Club. Thanks to all of you. We, the Adelaide Sportdog Club, Alex, Adrian, Cathy, Dragan, Joe, Josie, Kurt, Matt, Michael, Robyn and Ryan also want to use this moment to send out all the best wishes for this 2008 Christmas and all the best wishes for the New Year 2009. Keep on doing what you are doing and we will see and meet us in 2009. Yours sincerely, Club Secretary Adelaide Sportdog Club Michael Kamphuis
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