Articles Tagged: handling systems

Three handlers with different styles of handling analyze the same course and share their handling strategies. This month they look at a UKA Champion Jumpers course .

Three handlers with different styles of handling analyze the same course and share their handling strategies. This month they look at an AKC Excellent Standard course.

An instructor, competitor, and world team coach shares his blueprint for what is demanded of the “perfect” agility dog and handler, which you can use to develop a comprehensive training program for both handler and dog.

Our series concludes with a summary of the overall differences between these two handling systems.

In this article we’ll compare the differences and similarities in the use of pushes and flickaways in both systems. This is another area where the handling systems are quite different.

This month we’ll compare the use of the opposite arm in both handling systems. The use of arms seems to create the most confusion between the two systems so here we’ll discuss using arms with regard to particular maneuvers.

This month Jenny gives further examples of how she uses front and blind crosses in her handling system.

This month we’ll compare the differences and similarities in the use of serpentine handling in both systems.

We’re now going to look at how you can use Jenny’s system in real life. In this installment of the series, Jenny explains how she uses front and blind crosses.

In the final installment of Linda Mecklenburg’s series of handling articles, she dissects some courses and shows us how to put her Awesome Paws Handling System to work in real life.

This month we’ll compare the differences and similarities in the use of the send in both systems.

We’re now going to look at how you can use Jenny’s system in real life. This month Jenny explains how she uses regular turns and rear crosses.

This month we’ll compare the differences and similarities in the use of the rear cross in both systems.

Jenny’s foundation training basically consists of reinforcing the cues used on course. The dog should be 100% tuned into your body and your cues. It’s important to build confidence in the dog, so that he knows he can always trust your cues. Even if you make a mistake in handling, you still always make sure to reward the dog.

In the first of two articles on the subject, the author discusses several specialized handling situations, obstacle discriminations and blind crosses, and how to handle these situations while continuing to maintain consistency in the APHS system.

This month we compare front crosses in each system. The front cross is the maneuver that has the biggest difference in handling between the two systems.

The goal this month is to teach the dog responsibility for reading his handler’s line of motion and to teach him advanced convergence skills.

Last month we covered the lead-out pivot (Derrett) and the lead-out push (Mecklenburg). Now we’ll look at leadouts where a side change is not initially needed.

This month Jenny Damm presents an overview of her handling system, including its history and philosophy, her three basic rules, the crosses she uses for changes of side, and the cues she uses to tell the dog to turn or to go straight.

The goal this month is to teach the dog responsibility for performance of obstacles within his field of view and for reading his handler’s line of motion.