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Give your puppy the best possible sports foundation! Teach your puppy incredible handling foundation skills, teamwork games, and body awareness skills with a series of progressive, puppy-specific games! The SUPERSIZED Edition is perfect for younger puppies (9 weeks to 9 months) and features highly educational, low impact, super FUN games for your pup’s brain and body to get your training off to a brilliant start.

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You’ll get more than 75+ fun games (most with multiple levels) that will teach wonderful foundations for all things agility-related (and some flyball too!). These games will stimulate your pup’s mind without overworking their growing body. Get your youngster ready for an amazing career by teaching phenomenal foundations!

The pace of the class allows you to take your time training your pup, without feeling rushed or behind even if life gets busy!

Added Training Tracks:

• RESILIENCE FOUNDATION GAMES to help your puppy be relaxed, confident, and engaged in ANY environment

• STEALTH SELF-CONTROL to teach your dog these wildly successful impulse control games!

• 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 75+ games (most with multiple levels) 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 Foundations: SUPERSIZED Edition to teach your puppy amazing foundation skills from the ground up! SUPERSIZED is perfect for puppies 9 weeks and older, and features highly educational, low impact, super FUN games to get your training off to a brilliant start. In this edition of MaxPup SUPERSIZED, break weeks will be built in to allow time for the baby pups to develop their understanding of the games.

You and your young pup 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 (slice and wrap!)
• 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
• 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, September 1st
  • End Date: December 22nd (lifetime access)
  • Registration closes on November 15, 2026.
  • Course material access never expires.
  • Live Class Dates:
    • Tuesdays at 7pm Eastern (limited to 5 puppies): Sept 1, Sept15, Sept 29, Oct 13, Oct 27, Nov 10, December 1
• Level:
  • Open to All. Best suited for pups/young adults 9 weeks to 9 months as well as any dog getting started.
• 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!

Course Information

Estimated Time: 15 weeks with break weeks and extra time built in!

Difficulty: Puppy

Categories: Foundation, Puppy, Registration Open

Course Instructor

Tracy Sklenar Instructor