TRACKER SCHOOL
TTTK9 Professional Tracker School located in Edisto Island, SC.
TTTK9 PROFESSIONAL TRACKER SCHOOL
TTTK9
PROFESSIONAL TRACKER SCHOOL
- Edisto Island Tracker School Training is a maximum of 1-4 students per trainer in most situations We offer
on site handler’s quarters that include room and board for handler’s and K9’s. We have large 40X40’out door dog runs as well as indoor kennels for inclement weather as well as bathing stations and laundry.
- We have multiple living accommodations for handlers and their dogs at the facility or very near. These homes can house from one to six person comfortably and all include kitchens, full baths, and laundry. We can easily accommodate up to 10 students at a time.
- Completely secure and fenced in facility
- All weaponry and ammunition provided
- Video recording provided
- Safety glasses or other equipment is not provided
- Financing Available
To Contact TTTK9 by phone please call: (843) 823-0660
Download the Tracker School Brochure for more information
CHOOSE A COURSE
PHASE I - BASIC COURSE
Two weeks or modified one week primer- This course is best taken in an extensive 10 day
trailing course designed to teach the handler and dog how to work in rural and urban environments. - This course can also be shortened to
a five days as an introductory primer for a smaller budget. - Day 1 consists of orientation and classroom. Days 2-5 or 2-10 are all field work with certification at the end with the TTTK9 Level 1 Exam.
- Rural Exercises in relatively uncontaminated environments on the front end of the course finishing with urban work in contaminated areas with hard surfaces.
- Anti-Distraction training in trailing/ tracking.
- Introduction to the proximity alert and officer safety.
- Proper training notes and court testimony.
- After action reviews with video recorded during exercises.
- Basic
Trailing Level 1 Certification.
PHASE II - INTERMEDIATE COURSE
One week of adding tactical operators to the tracker dog element.- How to hunt high-risk subjects as a team
- This class is designed to teach the K9 to tolerate a tactical team working in close proximity to it.
- Team
elements individual responsibility- Team
- Enhanced prolixity alert training
- Flanking movements
- IED on the
track awareness- IED on the
- Video review
- Tactical Certification from level 1-3
PHASE III - ADVANCED COURSE
This is a counter SERE (Survival, Evasion, Reistance, Escape)- We teach you how to counter evasion and ambush tactics with the K9 and tactical team.
- This is truly the be all, end all of
K9 training. We teach you how to manage active evaders and conclude dangerous manhunts safely. - Scent pool training,
back tracks , cross tracks, stairway to heaven. - Obstacle and barrier training
- IED and Booby traps on the trail
- Counter SERE
- Counter Ambush
- Video review
- Tactical Certification from level 1-3
PHASE IV - TRAIN THE TRAINER
We teach you to teach trailing/tracking work to new handlers- Trailing imprinting on new K9’s
- Rural and Urban applications
- Hard surface transitions
- Teaching applications and tactics
- Shadow students with their new trainees
TTTK9 EDISTO ISLAND LODGING
Scroll through the images to view our 200-year-old modernized cabin that can sleep two comfortably or our Off The Grid Prepper house that sleeps one or a couple. Both are decked out with everything anyone would need for a vacation stay to include Satellite TV with all the channels. Kennels will be provided upon request. We have three other cabins off site for larger groups.
We are the only K9 training facility that offers first class Bed & Breakfast style living quarters for not only the handler but family members as well. Furthermore, Edisto Island is a vacation paradise. We are conveniently located only five miles from Edisto Beach, 2 miles from Botany Bay, and Edisto Island offers some of the best fishing and hunting available in the US.
Train hard all week and spend your weekend with your family fishing or kayaking. If you are a hunter, book a guided boar, turkey, deer hunt with one of our local outfitters. Train here with us once and you will come back again and again.
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