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Spend the winter teaching your pup incredible handling foundation skills, teamwork games and body awareness skills, with a series of progressive, puppy-specific games! You’ll get more than 75 fun games that will teach wonderful foundations for all things agility-related (and flyball too!). These games will stimulate your puppy’s mind without overworking their growing body. Get your puppy ready for an amazing career by teaching phenomenal foundations!

LIVE ZOOM CLASS WORKING SPOTS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED TO 5 PUPPIES IN THE LIVE CLASS (Website Forum Working Spots and Auditing are still unlimited)

Registration opens on Monday, September 23rd at Noon Eastern

This Supersized 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!

Added Training Tracks:
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!

NEW FOR THE 2024 EDITION:

TRACY’S STEALTH SELF-CONTROL FRAMEWORK!

This class will give you an entire library of skills to take you through your pup’s entire foundation training!

These 75+ 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, sizes, and breeds!

Join the MaxPup Performance Puppy Foundations: Supersized 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 Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 (online and live).
    • NOTE: We will have a break week during the December holidays.
  • Registration opens on Monday, September 23rd at Noon Eastern
  • Registration closes on January 1, 2025.
  • Course material access never expires.
  • Live Class Dates:
    • Tuesdays at 7pm Eastern (limited to 5 puppies):
      • November 12
      • November 26
      • December 3
      • December 17
      • January 7
      • January 21
      • February 4
• 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.
• Equipment needed (working participants only):
  • Various household items for foundation games and body awareness games. 1 jump upright (wingless), 2 jump wings (or cones or barrels), a jump bar, 1 tunnel (any length) 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 ($299): This level includes working participation in BOTH the traditional website forum 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: 5 total PLUS working spots in the LIVE online class sessions. Unlimited availability for traditional online working spots.
  • Auditing PLUS ($199): This level includes a working spot in the LIVE online classes as well as an auditing only spot in the regular website forum 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 website auditing spots.
  • Working Online Only ($225): This level includes a working spot in the regular website forum 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: unlimited
  • Auditing Only ($125): 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

Registration opens on Monday, September 23rd at Noon Eastern

Course Information

Estimated Time: 9 working weeks spread out over 12 weeks (7 live classes)

Difficulty: Open to All

Categories: Foundation, Puppy

Course Instructor

Tracy Sklenar Instructor

• Enrollment in this course closed on January 1, 2025.