Mondioring
is an exciting sport which requires well trained participants and their dogs
(mostly malinois), as well as decoys or helpers of high professional skills:
deep knowledge of dog’s behavior, intensive physical training, reaction and – a
good sense of humor.
Mondioring
is a young sport. However, it takes its start in late XIX century when soldiers
showed – for getting money - defense
skills of their dogs. Step by step some rules were developed and first
competitions were organized. In
different countries – mostly in France, Belgium, Germany – very similar
trainings were performed. To harmonize the principles and rules of these
trainings, to increase their popularity European mondioring clubs held a meeting. The new term –
mondioring (world ring) – and unified rules emerged as a result of this
conference.
Today the FCI publicized official rules of mondioring and every year
two grand championships and a lot of minor competitions are held. A helper, or
decoy (homme assistant – in French) should pass special tests (attestation) for
working in mondioring.
Mondioring is a rather expensive and time-consuming sport. Will it be widely popular or it will be supported by a limited number of clubs?
