Articles Tagged: exercises

The emphasis is on getting the dog to approach and take jumps and an angle or slice. In addition, the exercises also focus on getting the dog to jump and turn toward the next jump with a minimum of float or carry out away from the more efficient line.

Need some training ideas for maintaining your dog’s agility skills? This new series presents a maintenance program that is easy to implement and that is designed to accomplish a great deal in short sessions. This month focuses on tunnel discriminations.

Exercises for handling when using running contacts.

This month’s article presents challenges from the AKC Invitational Round 1 JWW course, as well as practice derivatives for a 60' x 80' area.

270s, serpentines, threadles and the box

Test your skills on a sequence from the Large Dog Individual Agility course at the FCI World Championships held in Dornbirn, Austria, September 2009.

Having a dog with well-trained turn cues can make your life easier and is also much easier on your dog’s body and brain. In this series, you’ll learn how to teach your dog the seven turn cues. Here are more drills for the third cue, the front cross.

Focuses on exercises that are suitable for teaching beginning transitions to your or green dogs.

Groundwork training has come to encompass much more than just the exercises we do to teach our dogs to follow us. Perfecting your handling on the ground before you start using equipment is a sure bet that you will have a great working relationship with your dog while performing “real” agility.

Jumpers courses.

This month’s article presents challenges from the Finals of the 2009 AKC Invitational, with practice derivatives for a 60' x 80' area.

This month we focus on what many might call the easiest obstacle in agility, the tunnel.

This month's exercises focus on the table and start lines.

This month’s drills focus on lead-out pivots and moving starts.

Test your skills on a sequence from a 2009 USDAA Grand Prix Regional course designed by Sharon Wirant.

This month we focus on spread jumps (including the double, triple, and broad jumps) as well as the panel jump and the tire.