Ivan Balabanov- Obedience without Conflict. Ivan Balabanov is one of todays most prominent and successful competitors and coaches worldwide. He is the author of the book ,Advanced Schutzhund, and the award winning DVD series "Obedience without conflict". Ivan's personal accomplishments include: 2007 World Champion, 6 time National Champion.

Ivan was twice invited as an instructor for the USPCA Nationals, and the Police K9 Training institue in Florida. Ivan gives seminars and lectures all over the world for high level competition proffesionals, police and military K9 handlers.

Ivan's class, Obedience without Conflict, helps teach new behaviors correctly, control during protection and detection work, solves problems, and builds relationships with your dog.

Ivan's techniques for creating crystal clarity in communication between handler and dog are second to none. True partnership is attained when the conflict of miscommunication is broken through common language. Ivan's techniques are ideal for any system of dog training, regardless of activity or methodology. A strong emphasis is placed on teaching the dog self control to minimize correction, achieve precision through motivation and signaled non-reward as well as how to respond to cues in an instant which have been isolated to verbal cues alone. When to raise criterion and achieving fluency with behaviors is discussed so that each trainer knows when to progress to the next level with their dog. An emphasis is placed on comprehension of skills rather than simply training behaviors.