AWMA South Regional Championship

Les Flores is a retired Police K-9 Officer with over 40 years of experience training dogs across multiple specialties, including police K-9 work, narcotic detection, Schutzhund/IGP, search and rescue, AKC obedience, show, and executive/family protection. He has given seminars on drive training theory and competitive handling techniques in Schutzhund/IGP, and was selected as a back-half helper in 10 of 11 Regional and National Championships.

Les spent eight years as National Training Director of DVG America, where he trained many of the country’s top protection helpers/decoys and mentored handlers across all facets of the sport. His training and certification program has been adopted as a foundation by numerous dog sport clubs in the U.S. and Germany.

A lifelong competitor, Les is currently taking a break to train his young Dutch Shepherd, Ryze. His competitive achievements include:

1988–1989: Top Dog and Top Police K9 with K9 Prime Justice (“PJ”)

2000: Vice Champion, DVG America National, with Ziggo (GSD)

2001: 1st Place, DVG America National Championship, with Ziggo

2002: 3rd Place, DVG National, with Ziggo

2000, 2001, 2003: Represented DVG America at the dhv Meisterschaft with Ziggo

2004: Won DVG America National Championship with Nico; represented DVG America at the dhv Meisterschaft; AWMA team member in Austria for the FMBB

2008 Took the Top Auslander trophy at the 1st Dutch Shepherd World championship with his dog Aaron in The Netherlands.

2013: Won the 2nd WDSAA National Championship with Funky (DS); took 1st place in IPO 2 with Kiitos (DS, Funky’s son)

2019–2021: Selected three times to represent the USA team at the IGP FH World Championships with Dusty (Marquez, DS)

2019 Took 3rd place at the World DS Championship and the WDSAA Championship also earned the Helper's choice award on both events with his DS Dusty (Marquez).

Over his career, Les has earned more than 300 awards in Police K-9 and Schutzhund/IGP competition at Regional, National and International level.

In 2008, Les founded the Working Dutch Shepherd Association of America (WDSAA) to promote the Dutch Shepherd as a viable, healthier working breed for police and sport. He currently serves as President of the WDSF. He is a founding member of the California Gold Police and Schutzhund Club (DVG), Gold Rush Schutzhund Club (USCA) in California,  Cascade Schutzhund Club in Washington, and Next Level SDC (DVG) in Texas.  He currently serves as an AWMA judge for IGP.

Address:

2260 Jim Taylor Road

Woodlawn, TN 37191

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Lucas Johnson

   I've been in and around Schutzhund/IPO/IGP for the better part of a decade and doing helper work for about 8 of those years. My first exposure to the sport was when I was stationed in Germany and my wife and I got our first GSD. I've been addicted ever since, and first put on the sleeve at Snohomish Schutzhund Club in Snohomish, WA. Since then, I've had the privilege of working numerous club trials, as well as the 2022-2024 USCA North Central Regional Championships, the 2025 USCA Mid Central and Mid Eastern Regional championships. Most recently, I did the IGP2 helper work at the 2026 USCA Working Dog Championship.

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