Rinus Bastiaansen (Belgium) - Protection

Since my birth I was always surrounded and grew up with dogs but got my first working dog when I was 16. A few years later i purchased my first pup and became a member of VVDH (Belgian GSD Club). With this pup , my first competition dog, i competed later on in more than 80 trials, included 4 times Regionals and 3 times Nationals. I gained the bronze, silver gold brilliant training medals.

Straight after i joined my club, i got involved in the protection and helper work. I got my official trial helper and tracklayer license in 1985. Beside a lot of local trials i was also a helper for Regionals, Nationals and Selection Trials.

I became an official FCI judge in 1996. Beside the local trials, I also judged already in Regionals, Nationals, Selection Trials and Championships in Belgium and other countries around the world. I judged the protection phase at the 2014 world championship Universal Sieger in Slovakia and in 2017 the protection phase at the World Championship WUSV in the Netherlands. In 2018, i was invited to judge the protection phase at the World Championship FMBB in Slovenia.

I became member of the working dog committee (of VVDH Belgium) in 2001 and from 2009 I was president of this committee for 9 years.

For me it is an honour to be invited to judge at the Universal Sieger Word Championship in Great Britain.