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THE MAGAZINE FOR DOG AGILITY ENTHUSIASTS
PHOTOS © NINI BLOCH,
DIANE LEWIS PHOTOGRAPHY, PETER STEPHENS

10
The Birth of Handling
Back when agility started, crossing
behind your dog wasn't a handling
move; it was an accident. Just as agility
has grown exponentially in popularity since it was first introduced in the
USA, so have the sport's handling and
training methods evolved at a stunning
pace. By Nini Bloch

JANUARY 15

How Much? How Often?
A Look at Training and Conditioning
Physical conditioning, skills training,
and running courses are all components necessary for building and maintaining a successful agility career, but
the time invested in them may vary
based on the age and experience level
of the dog. By Brenna Fender

VOLUME 21

NUMBER 01

54
Teaching the Seesaw the
DogLogical Way, Part 1:
Pre-requisite Foundation Work
Before you even go near a wobble
board, there is lots of foundation work
you can do with your dog to help train
a confident, fast, and independent
seesaw performance.
By Lynne Stephens KPA, CTP

Features
5

Editorializing: 20 Years of Clean Run
Some reflections on 20 years of Clean Run history.
By Monica Percival

23 How Much Is Too Much?
How much agility training and trialing is enough
and how much is too much? These are not easy
questions to answer, nor is there one right answer.
By Kristin Wolter, CVT, CCRA
27 How Hula Hooping Can Make
You a Better Agility Handler
Hooping makes you more aware of your nondominant side, helps you get comfortable rotating,
and improves proprioception. By Jenni Shelegy
36 Class Plans from Happy Dog Ranch
One of the challenges instructors face each week is
designing drills that require little moving of equipment between groups and challenge all the students in the class while not making it so difficult
that they cannot be successful. By Kristy Netzer

61 Raising Your Pup 2 Perfection: Groups,
Classes, and Habitats
Groups and classes can be a great way to meet up
with friends, enjoy some of the more social side of
dog training, and get together to share and enjoy
new learning and training. However, have you
ever stopped to consider it from your dog's point
of view? By Lauren Langman
64 I Know That's Not the Way You're
Supposed to Handle This, But...
The most efficient line for me as a handler is the
last thing on my mind when I walk a course.
Instead, I look at it from the perspective of how I
can get my dog to run the shortest route, regardless of what bizarre things I might need to do to
accomplish that. By Michelle Hrnchar

Columns

40 Using Laser Therapy
in Canine Sports Medicine
With a great deal of clinical research supporting
its healing effects, laser therapy is now considered
standard practice in canine rehabilitation and
sports medicine. By Carolina Medina

Tip of the Month
By Deborah Davidson Harpur

30 Conditioning Canine Athletes:
Getting Started
Conditioned dogs perform better with fewer occurrences of
injury. A good conditioning program needs to include proprioception (awareness of where the
body is in space), core strengthening, and aerobic exercises.
By Bobbie Lyons

44 As the World Turns:
German Turn
The German turn is used in situations where the dog and handler
are approaching the jump from
the landing side. It speciﬁcally
involves the dog jumping on a
slice and the handling doing a
blind cross. By Mary Ellen Barry

Backyard Dogs By Mia Grant

58 Training with the Stars: Anna Eifert
Hungarian Anna Eifert has accomplished a
lot in agility. Her next goal is to run the first
Bull Terrier to ever compete at the FCI Agility
World Championships. By Sally Silverman

20 Being an Innovative Dog
Trainer: Optimising Learning
Without Fallout
Eﬀective reward-based dog training means we move from an
attitude of working to inhibit and
restrict our dogs' natural behaviours to instead enhancing and
promoting the behaviours we
do want. By Tom Mitchell

Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Agility... By Brenna Fender

16 Keep It Simple for Success
Are we making agility unnecessarily complicated? Does success on
course really lie within increasingly
complicated cue combinations?
Let's look at simple and straightforward handling solutions for a
complicated course. By Daisy Peel

25 The Judge's Debriefing
By Cindy Elliott Deak

Cover Dog
Jack Russell Terrier action photo by
Doghouse Arts. Weave pole "flames"
provided courtesy of Photoshop!

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