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Welcome!! I’m excited to hear more about the trials!!! And the trials were specifically for folks wanting a calmer environment? I’m jealous LOL!!!
Can’t wait to see more of Sundae and you!T
Welcome!! 18 months already… time flies!!!
I’m excited that you got to a real live class – sounds like Keiko was fabulous, like usual 🙂
Looking forward to seeing her in action here!
TracyHello and welcome!!! I am excited to see you and your girls 🙂 I think there will games for Maple to join in.
Have fun!
TracyHi and welcome!!! Glad to see you here. How is Select doing? Hopefully he can join in later in the summer. And it will be fun to watch Taken!@
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Hello and welcome back!! I’m excited to hear all about your boys. And extra special hello to Ace <3
Have fun!!
TracyHello and welcome! I’m excited to see you all here and especially get to know Fusion!!!
And I think all 3 dogs will have stuff to play with. Have fun!Howdy! I’m excited that you and the Aussies are here 🙂 we can get creative to make it all fit your space. Fun times ahead!
Hi!
>>OK, I hadn’t noticed that, but I’ll try another surface soon…which may mean that I need to finally get/build my own wings. Do you have plans or resources for building agility equipment? The wings just seem like they would be easy enough to build and pre-made ones seems so expensive for what they are.>>
Pre-made wings are ridiculously expensive!!! Here is a link to a popular way to make your own:
>> The tandem turn to get her to come in would be more on a parallel line to the wing, facing the center of the tunnel, with your outside arm drawing her in as if you had a cookie, then turning her back out.>>
Uh…what? I’m sure it’s perfectly clear, but I can’t picture things in my mind, so not really sure what this is saying. 🤣>>
You can see the visual here:
https://agility-u.com/lesson/handling-game-rocking-horse-turn-aways-2/The Advanced Level has the tandem turns to give you the visual 🙂
>>Overall, it seems like a lot of the issues that I’ve had during this class have been from handling mistakes>>
That is basically the life-long challenge of agility, from beginning to masters level 🙂 Handling is the hardest part 🙂
>> and things that are probably easy to correct in the moment by a third-party observer who knows what they’re doing. I’m thinking that some in-person agility lessons would be helpful for me, just so I don’t get into bad habits myself. Do you offer any of those or know of someone in Alexandriva, VA/DC area that does?>>
I think the closest to you will be at A Click Above in Leesburg:
https://www.aclickabovellc.com/
And a lot of the NoVa/DC folks also go down to Level Up – a bit further but they have seminars so you can have a longer experience to make the drive worthwhile:
https://www.levelupdogsports.com/
Live, in-person training is a huge part of agility, so hopefully you can find classes that fit your schedule. There are a couple of other facilities on the MD side of things too!
Have fun! Great job here!
TracyGood morning!
Nice work here!! A couple of things that I see:
on the 12 poles, he only has a couple of reps before the striding goes from rhythmic to wonky. It could have been a bit of fatigue, or it might be that he strides better when you are ahead (like the first couple of reps) and when you stay parallel, he slows down to match your speed so he ends up crossing over in the striding. With that in mind, you can add more speed and move faster to stay ahead. And mix in driving ahead to a reward target so he doesn’t rely on you being ahead.On the 2x2s – he was definitely more consistent here. He was somewhere between the bounce and the swim – not quite one or the other but definitely rhythmic!!! So keep moving forward with speed on these and maybe tighten up one more inch and see how he does. Then it can be 4 then 4 to see if he can hit and hold the rhythm, eventually bringing them closer together.
The zig zags are correct! You can move the wings a little closer together so he learns to make the changes quickly – the ideal eventual distance is 4 feet (then add a 3rd wing in the line :))
Great job here and thanks for all of your work and feedback!!!! I will see you in CAMP 🙂
Tracy
