The 5 Phases Certification

Opens April 7, 2024.

Learn the Art of Styling Dogs by Coat Type Utilizing the World-Renowned Nash Methods

There are over 150 breeds of dogs recognized by the American Kennel Club, and as a professional, you need to know proper styling for everyone, as well as mixed breeds and new designer breeds. Feeling overwhelmed? Then this is the course for you.

The breeds are organized into specific categories, allowing you to create proper profiles, balance and symmetry, and even to correct conformational faults, with ease.

Need consistency and a higher standard of excellence in your salon? This is the course for you and for all your bathers, groomers and stylists seeking a methodology through which to understand the vast variety of dogs and the way to properly style each breed correctly by coat type.

The complex, creative, and sophisticated world of styling studied in this course include:

The basic coat growth patterns and coat growth types you need to know to successfully style the dog.
What breeds demand intricate styling, and what breeds need to be left in a natural state.
Anatomy markers are and how they help us understand conformation and styling.
The anatomy markers of the head, body, and legs.
What we mean by body ratios.
How the relationship between the parts of the dog's body helps us to define and understand conformation.
How the ratios of muzzle to skull, height to length, and withers to elbow and elbow to ground define correct conformation of all dogs.
The five body types can be used to describe all dogs.
Why dogs are placed in the square body type, square terrier body type, rectangle body type, speed body type, and short-legged body type.
Why we study the conformation of fronts and the one rear type.
The significance of the Gothic window when viewing dogs from the front and rear.
Why fronts are divided into the straight, horseshoe, bully, and low front types? Why is there only one rear type?
Why it is important to master the basic trim styles.
What the differences and similarities in styling short coat types, smooth coat types, medium smooth coat types, Nordic coat types, rough coat types, and rough Nordic coat types.
What breeds receive these trim styles and why.
How you style the various components of the dog and what specific tools and techniques must you master to be able to create these styles.
What the various breed standards require that make these components instantly recognizable signature for the breeds.
What variations are unique to specific breeds and why.
What the various trim styles for the head, ear, neck, rear, chest, legs, foot, and tail.

Trim Styles

Body Contour
Corded
Full Coated Jacket
Hairless
Lion
Long and Flowing
Long Legged Terrier Jacket
Scruffy Jacket
Short Legged Terrier Jacket
Silhouette Enhancement
Sporting Saddle
Sporting Jacket

Course curriculum

1. Five Phases Taking Care of the Canine Skin and Coat
2. Variations and Creations of Coat Types
3. Twenty Coat Types Placed in Seven Prepping, Bathing, Brushing, Drying and Finishing Phases
4. 8 Trim Style by Coat Type Categories
1. Short, Smooth, Medium Smooth and Nordic Coat Type Category
1. About Short Coat Types with Determined Hair Growth
2. Eye Care, Products, Tools and Maintenance Schedule: Short Coat Types
3. Ear Care, Products, Tools and Maintenance Schedule: Short Coat Types
4. Foot Care, Maintenance Schedule: Short Coat Types
5. Sanitary Care, Maintenance and Schedule: Short Coat Types
6. PREPPING Short Coat Types
7. BATHING Short Coat Types
8. DRYING Short Coat Types
9. BRUSHING Short Coat Types
1. About Smooth Coat Types
2. Eye Care Smooth Coat Types
3. Ear Care Smooth Coat Types
4. Foot Care Smooth Coat Types
5. PREPPING Smooth Coat Types with Determined Hair Growth
6. BATHING Smooth Coat Types
7. DRYING Smooth Coat Types
8. BRUSHING Smooth Coat Types
9. FINISHING Smooth Coat Types
1. Medium Smooth Coat Type
2. Eye Care Medium Smooth Coat Types
3. Ear Care Medium Smooth Coat Types
4. PREPPING Medium Smooth Coat Types
5. BATHING Medium Smooth Coat Types
6. DRYING Medium Smooth Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Medium Smooth Coat Types
1. Nordic Coat Type
2. Eye Care Nordic Coat Types
3. Ear Care Smooth Coat Types
4. PREPPING Nordic Coat Types
5. BATHING Nordic Coat Types
6. DRYING Nordic Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Nordic Coat Types
1. Nordic Rough and Rough Coat Types PBDBF Categories
1. About the Nordic Rough Coat Type
2. Eye Care for Nordic Rough Coat Types
3. Ear Care for Nordic Rough Coat Types
4. PREPPING Nordic Rough Coat Types
5. Sanitary Care for Nordic Rough Coat Types
6. BATHING Nordic Rough Coat Types
7. DRYING Rough Nordic Coat Types
8. BRUSHING Nordic Rough Coat Types
9. FINISHING Nordic Rough Coat Types - Pet Trim Options
1. Eye Care Rough Coat Types
2. Ear Care for Nordic Rough Coat Types
3. PREPPING Rough Coat Types (Determined Coat Type)
4. BATHING Rough Coat Types
5. DRYING Rough Coat Types
6. BRUSHING Rough Coat Types
1. MEDIUM LONG, SPORTING JACKET AND SPORTING SADDLE PBDBF COAT TYPE CATEGORY
1. About the Medium Long Coat Type
2. Eye Care Medium Long Coat Types
3. Ear Care Medium Long Coat Types
4. Foot Care Medium Long Coat Types - Removing Hair
5. PREPPING Medium Long Coat Types
6. BATHING Medium Long Coat Types
7. DRYING Medium Long Coat Types
8. BRUSHING Medium Long Coat Types
9. FINISHING Medium Long Coat Types
1. About the Sporting Coat Type: Jacket
2. Eye Care Sporting Coat Types
3. Ear Care Sporting Coat Types
4. Foot Care Sporting Coat Types
5. PREPPING Sporting Coat Types
6. BATHING Sporting Coat Types
7. DRYING Sporting Coat Types
8. BRUSHING Sporting Coat Types
1. About the Sporting Coat Type: Saddle
2. Eye Care Sporting Saddle Coat Types
3. Ear Care Sporting Saddle Coat Types
4. PREPPING Sporting Saddle Coat Types
5. BATHING Sporting Saddle Coat Types
6. DRYING Sporting Saddle Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Sporting Saddle Coat Types
1. Broken Wire, Scruffy Wire and Tight Wire Coat Types
1. About the Wire Coat Type: Broken
2. Eye Care Broken Wire Coat Types
3. Ear Care Broken Wire Coat Types
4. PREPPING Broken Wire Coat Types
5. BATHING Broken Wire Coat Types
6. DRYING Broken Wire Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Broken Wire Coat Types
1. About the Wire Coat Type: Scruffy
2. Eye Care Scruffy Wire Coat Types
3. Ear Care Scruffy Wire Coat Types
4. PREPPING Scruffy Wire Coat Types
5. BATHING Scruffy Wire Coat Types
6. DRYING Scruffy Wire Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Scruffy Wire Coat Types
8. FINISHING Scruffy Wire Coat Types
1. Eye Care Tight Wire Coat Types
2. Ear Care Tight Wire Coat Types
3. Foot Care Tight Wire Coat Types - Removing Hair
4. Sanitary Care Tight Wire Coat Types
5. PREPPING Tight Wire Coat Types
6. BATHING Wire Coat Types
7. DRYING Tight Wire Coat Types
8. BRUSHING Tight Wire Coat Types
1. Loose Curly, Tight Curly, Rough Curly
1. About the Coat Type: Loose: Curly
2. Eye Care Loose Curly Coat Types
3. Ear Care Loose Curly Coat Types
4. PREPPING Loose Curly Coat Types
5. BATHING Loose Curly Coat Types
6. DRYING Loose Curly Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Loose Curly Coat Types
1. About the Curly Coat Type: Tight
2. Eye Care Tight Curly Coat Types
3. Ear Care Tight Curly Coat Types
4. PREPPING Tight Curly Coat Types
5. BATHING Tight Curly Coat Types
6. DRYING Tight Curly Coat Types
7. BRUSHING Tight Curly Coat Types
8. FINISHING Tight Curly coat types
9. Ten Styling Components: Techniques for Tight Curly Coat Types for the Pet, Modified and Contest-Show Trim Divisions
1. Curly Coat Type: Rough
2. PREPPING Rough Curly Coat Types
3. BATHING Rough Curly Coat Types
4. Ten Styling Components: Techniques for Rough Curly Coat Types for the Pet, Modified and Contest-Show Trim Divisions
1. Loose, Tight, Short and Long Cords
1. About the Curly Coat Type: Corded
2. Eye Care Corded Curly Coat Types
3. Ear Care Loose Curly Coat Types
4. PREPPING Corded Coat Types
5. BATHING Corded Coat Types
6. DRYING Corded Curly Coat Types
7. ***REMOVE TABLE***BRUSHING Curly Corded Coat Types
8. FINISHING Corded Curly coat types
9. Ten Styling Components: Techniques for Corded Coat Types for the Pet, Modified and Contest-Show Trim Divisions
1. Silky Drop, Wavy Drop, Rough Drop and Hairless
1. About the Drop Coat Type: Silky
1. About the Drop Coat Type: Wavy
1. About the Drop Coat Type: Rough
1. Eye Care Drop Coat Types
2. Ear Care Drop Coat Types
3. Foot Care Drop Coat Types
4. PREPPING All Drop Coat Types
5. BATHING All Drop Coat Types
6. Brushing All Drop Coat Types
7. DRYING All Drop Coat Types
1. About the Hairless Coat Type
2. Eye Care Hairless Coat Types
3. Ear Care Hairless Coat Types
1. Choosing the Right Blade for the Coat Type and Trim Style

About this course

$180.00
148 lessons
0 hours of video content