About Lyn
Lyn Sayers is the inventor of the Contactacoat Contact Coating System. He is an agility judge in New Zealand, and in addition to promoting rubberized contacts in New Zealand, he was heavily involved with introducing electronic timing to New Zealand agility. Like many in agility, Lyn was “bitten” by the bug and has never turned back.
Lyn and his three Schnauzers pose with the first Cross Over to be coated with rubber chip. This piece of equipment was covered in April 2005 and shows no signs of wear.
From Lyn: For the first 50 odd years of my life I thought of Dogs as someone’s idea of a bad joke. My earliest recollections were of seeking alternative ways to walk to school to avoid the neighbours’ canine family members. This only got worse during my teenage years when my father employed me as a Butcher’s delivery boy.
That all changed at Christmas 1997 when I met and fell in love with my sister’s new Miniature Schnauzer – “Meldrew “. Life since then has pretty much revolved around our new “canine children” and the sport of Agility.
Our household now boasts three Schnauzers:- Jasper the oldest is ADX, Jenna was the first of the breed to be made up in Agility and has ADX Gold, plus our latest acquisition Josie who commenced her agility career in January 2006 at Tokoroa. Jenna was the first dog in New Zealand to run in the “Champion of Champions Class” held at Counties in March 2005, she finished 4th.
I joined the Judges Panel in July 2002 and have officiated at events from Invercargill in the deep South to Whangarei in the North.
The Sayers motto :- “From dog phobic to dog manic in three easy Schnauzers”