Due to popular demand, we are offering a Special Edition of the MaxPup Performance Puppy Foundations class! Spend the spring and summer teaching your pup incredible handling foundation skills, teamwork games, engagement games, and body awareness skills, with a series of progressive, puppy-specific games!
You’ll get more than 50 fun games that will teach wonderful foundations for all things agility-related (and flyball too!) that will stimulate your puppy’s mind without overworking her growing body. Get your puppy ready for an amazing career by teaching phenomenal foundations!
WORKING SPOTS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED TO 10 PUPPIES IN THE FORUM AND 5 PUPPIES IN THE LIVE CLASS (Auditing is still unlimited) Registration opens on Thursday, March 30th at Noon Eastern.
This Special Edition of MaxPup is one of our awesome hybrid classes: it is a traditional online class and has the option of participating in LIVE online classes too!
Want the flexibility of training on your own schedule and posting whenever you want? The online classroom is perfect!
Want more interaction and instant live feedback? Choose the LIVE option to supplement your learning! All live classes can be done indoors and at home! All you need is a good internet connection. All MaxPup participants are welcome to audit the live sessions, and the sessions will be recorded and posted!
NEW FOR THIS SESSION:
RESILIENCE FOUNDATION GAMES to help your puppy be relaxed, confident, and engaged in ANY environment as well as FLYBALL FOUNDATION GAMES to build new skills that are great for both agility and flyball!
This class will give you an entire library of skills to take you through your pup’s entire foundation training!
These 50 games will show you how to get these started, how to build up these skills, and what the finished product looks like. Demo videos will include pups of all ages and sizes!
Join the MaxPup Performance Puppy Foundations: Special Edition to teach your puppy amazing foundation skills from the ground up! This class is perfect for puppies from 10 weeks old to one year old and features highly educational, low impact, super FUN games to get your pup off to a brilliant start.
You and your puppy will develop a great partnership while focusing on the following skills:
- Getting connection as a team
- Body Awareness Skills
- Teamwork and Engagement Games
- Independent commitment skills
- Acceleration on a line and driving ahead
- Start line stays
- Countermotion
- Tight turns
- Soft turns
- How to read crosses
- Front
- Blind
- Rear
- Cue Combos
- Tunnel Entries and Exits
- Tunnel Discriminations
- Handler focus versus Line focus
- Serpentine lines
- Threadles!
- Backside foundations (slice and wrap!)
- Get Out lines
- Teaching verbals
- Value building
Every game will feature two levels:
- How to get started on the flat with your puppy
- How to progress the game through the next steps (including adding jump wings and/or a tunnel)
Additional Course Details
- Faculty:
- Tracy Sklenar
- Dates:
- Course starts on April 26, 2023 (online and live).
- Registration opens March 30, 2023 at Noon Eastern
- Registration closes on June 15, 2023.
- Course material access never expires.
- Level:
- Open to All. Best suited for pups 10 weeks to one year old.
- Course Structure:
- This unique “hybrid” course combines the traditional elements of Agility U’s online program with an option for LIVE participation and in-the-moment feedback! Choose Your Adventure allows you to pick your level of participation:
- Working PLUS (Working Spot in the online class forum PLUS Working Spot in the live Zoom classes)
- Auditing PLUS (Auditing Spot in the online class forum PLUS Working Spot in the live Zoom classes)
- Working Online (Working spot in the online class forum only, auditing the live Zoom classes)
- Auditing (Auditing both the online class forum and live Zoom classes)
- ALL Participants will be able to audit any of the LIVE online classes as well as view the recordings of these sessions at any time.
- The LIVE group class will be approximately 90 – 120 minutes long.
- Each game will feature a downloadable video explanation and demo as well as a written description.
- This unique “hybrid” course combines the traditional elements of Agility U’s online program with an option for LIVE participation and in-the-moment feedback! Choose Your Adventure allows you to pick your level of participation:
- Equipment needed (working participants only):
- various household items for body awareness games. 1 jump upright (wingless), 2 jump wings (or cones or barrels), a jump bar, 1 tunnel (10 feet or longer) and tunnel bags. Pups will NOT be jumping
- Space required (working participants only):
- All games can be played in small spaces, indoors, at home! All you need is a small, clear space and good footing!
- Type of participation:
- Working PLUS: This level includes working participation in BOTH the traditional online class and the LIVE class sessions! This includes a working spot in the LIVE online classes as well as a working spot in the regular online class. You will be able to work your puppy in the live online class for in-the-moment feedback and training suggestions, post videos of your training in the online classroom for feedback and training suggestions, ask questions, participate in discussions and chat, as well as audit the other LIVE online session(s) and view the recording of the live classes. Limit: 10 total working spots in the online Forum and 5 total working spots in the LIVE online class sessions. Unlimited availability for traditional online working spots.
- Auditing PLUS: This level includes a working spot in the LIVE online classes as well as an auditing only spot in the regular online class. You will be able to work your puppy in the live online class for in-the-moment feedback and training suggestions and auditing the traditional online classroom (see below for the specifics of Auditing). Limit: 5 total working spots in the LIVE online class session, unlimited availability for traditional auditing spots.
- Working Online: This level includes a working spot in the regular online classroom and auditing the LIVE online classes. You will be able to post videos of your training in the online classroom for feedback and training suggestions, ask questions, participate in discussions and chat, as well as audit the LIVE online session(s) and view the recording of the live classes. Limit: 10 total working spots in the online Forum.
- Auditing: This level includes access to ALL of the LIVE and online classroom features, as well as participation in discussions and chat in both the regular online class forums and during the LIVE online class sessions. Limit: unlimited
- Tuition:
- [SOLD OUT]
Working PLUS:$299 (Live classes are on Wednesdays at 7pm Eastern: April 26, May 10, May 17, May 31, June 14, June 28, July 12 - [SOLD OUT]
Auditing PLUS:$199 (Live classes are on Wednesdays at 7pm Eastern: April 26, May 10, May 17, May 31, June 14, June 28, July 12 - [SOLD OUT]
Working Online Only:$225 - Auditing Only: $125
- [SOLD OUT]
Course Information
Course Instructor
- Enrollment in this course closed on 06/15/2023.