Articles Tagged: contacts

Build/use a PVC frame to hold multiple hoops on dog walk contacts to help dogs hit their contacts.

Most dogs have to overcome a few challenges to learn and maintain independent contact performance. Here we’ll focus on suggestions for tackling those challenges.

Need some training ideas for maintaining your dog’s agility skills? This series presents a maintenance program that’s easy to implement and accomplishes a great deal in short sessions. This month focuses on the dogwalk.

Plank work is fundamental for your dog’s initial agility training. Here are 101 things you can do with a plank and you can start when your pup is young.

In this three-part series, the author explains the progression for training a two-on/two-off contact performance, both with and without a nose touch. The final article covers sequencing the dogwalk, training the A-frame contact, and problem solving.

Label equipment to make it easier to disassemble, move and reassemble

In this three-part series, the author explains the progression for training a two-on/two-off contact performance, both with and without a nose touch. This month’s article covers stair work, more plank work, and backchaining the dogwalk.

In this three-part series, the author explains how to train a two-on/two-off contact performance, both with and without a nose touch. This month’s article covers how to teach a nose touch and basic two-on/two-off work on a travel board.

Contact/tunnel and table/tunnel discrimination exercises.

A group of trainers shares potential solutions for fixing missed up contact performances on the A-frame. Elicia Calhoun, Kathy Lofthouse, Bonnie Calhoun McDonald, Stacy Peardot-Goudy,

Shaping an intense nose touch or “crunch” may seem like a waste of time. But this behavior can help your dog acquire accurate and fast contacts, can intensify your recall, and can help you line up your dog in different positions.