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What is competition GroomingCompetitive dog grooming is a professional sport where skilled groomers showcase their techniques and creativity by giving dogs various styles, including breed-specific looks, artistic creations, and freestyle designs. Groomers are judged on criteria such as symmetry and uniformity of cuts, style and trim detail and the coat’s balance. The texture of the fur, the number of scissor marks and the tidiness of the feet are also considered. Events include breed profile, creative grooming (which uses safe dyes and sculpting), and freestyle, with competitions ranging from pre-trimmed judging to timed grooming.
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Who We Are |
Our team is made up of groomers who are from all experience levels. From first time competitors to seasoned. We all support one another in meetings, competing, and in our journey of life as a groomer. We believe we have an open space to be confident to ask any question and to share any ideas. Our goal is not only to further our training, knowledge, and skills, but to lift each other up and care for one another in an industry that can really wipe you out.
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Our History |
Team Feldspar was started in 2021 as a way to bring groomers together to learn the passion behind competition grooming in a setting that is family style with tutelage from one of our industries best Ann Martin. Ann Martin is an international award-winning master groomer, judge, instructor, and speaker. She has been handling and exhibiting show dogs since she was a child, and now continues that legacy with her line of Feldspar Standard Poodles and Papillons. Certified as an NCMG at age twenty, Ann began competing in grooming competitions in 1992 and became a certifier for the National Dog Groomers Association of America in 1995. In her six years of competing, she became a member of GroomTeam USA and received many top awards, including the title of Best American Groomer, Best Team Groomer in the World, Oster Tournament of Champions Winner, and Cardinal Crystal Achievement Award Winner, as well as multiple Best All Around Groomer and Best in Show awards. Ann has since taught seminars and judged grooming competitions around the world. Focused on sharing a lifetime of expertise with groomers looking to expand their skill sets, she is currently recording a video library of educational grooming videos and is launching the Mastery Series with Irina “Pina” Pinkusevich.
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Heather had the honor of being a founding member of Ann Martin's competitive grooming team. The team competes several times a year with groomers from all over the globe. Competitions are in three levels based on when a competitor entered competing and how many times you have won first place. The competitions are timed by the size of your dog and then you must complete the specific groom in that time frame. The Judges are Internationally recognized for their skill, decades of experience and knowledge, and their time winning in the ring. It is fun, tiring, and pushes you to be striving for the best knowledge of your profession.
Her accomplishments to date are: 1st entry Poodles Superzoo 2025 1st entry Poodles Pasadena 2025 3rd entry Freestyle Pasadena 2025 3rd Freestyle CaliGroom Central 2025 2nd entry Poodles Pasadena 2024 3rd entry Freestyle Pasadena 2023 3rd entry Poodles SuperZoo 2022 2nd entry All Other Purebreds at Pasadena 2022 Best First Timer entry Poodles SuperZoo 2021 |