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ZiGZaG This game allows you to test each team’s mastery of handling skills such as the front cross, rear cross, and turn on the flat. Set up several sets of six jump stanchions about 10' apart and staggered like a giant set of channel weave poles. The handler stays pretty much in the center and sends her dog out to the stanchions using the designated skill. Can the team do six front crosses while the handler moves from start to finish? Next test how well your students can race the six stanchions using the various handling skills you’ve been teaching them—front cross, rear cross, turn on the flat. Have two lines going at once. Who gets to the end first? How well does the dog take cues at speed and while racing other teams? The example in the diagram shows six front crosses being done. FC FC 6 FC 6 FC 6 6 FC 5 FC 5 5 5 4 FC 4 FC 4 4 FC 3 FC 3 3 3 2 FC 2 FC 2 2 1 S 1 S S 1 1 S Now try this drill using only one side of the chute of stanchions (#1, #3, #5). The handler stays on one side, sends the dog around the stanchion, and calls the dog back to side. The exercise encourages handlers to become comfortable with some lateral distance and teaches them not to babysit every obstacle. Teaching these skills early and encouraging teams to use them under pressure helps avoid the Velcro dog that most of us want to trade in when we reach higher levels. Many, if not most, students perfect flatwork at a slow to moderate pace, but never take the final step of perfecting those skills at a competition pace—fast! Teams often progress from practicing handling skills on the flat at a moderate speed to trying those same handling skills at full speed on obstacles, then suddenly their skills break down. Flatwork games allow all levels of agility teams to perfect skills at full speed, with the added benefit of competitive pressure. FiGure eiGhts Have several sets of two stanchions 20' apart and assign the handling skills to be used (front cross, rear cross, turn on the flat). Having two stanchions gives people a place to perform the cross and requires them to stay in the straightaway between the two stanchions, which helps them use the crosses properly. Have three dogs on each team. The goal is to have all three dogs do two rotations of the figure eight in both directions, while using the specified skill. The example below shows teams practicing a rear cross. RC RC 78 Clean Run | October 08

Clean Run Magazine - October 2008

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Clean Run Magazine - October 2008

Clean Run Magazine - October 2008
Contents
Editorializing: The Agility Gene
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Backyard Dogs
Why Teach Your Dog to Jump?
Trainer’s Forum
Handling Your Dog in Awesome Style, Part 7: Basic Turns with Turning Obstacles
Is Your Agility Stagnant?
Four-on-the-floor Contacts: A New Method for Training the End Contact Behavior, Part 2
Conquering Ring Nerves: Fueling Up to Run Fast and Clean
Starting as a Team, Part 5
Canine Health Care: Frequently Asked Questions
When Pigs Fly: Getting a Handle on a Greased Pig
Foundation Fundamentals: Recalls
Power Paws Patterns: Number Nine
Cece’s Gym Exercise of the Month: Wind Sprints
Skill of the Month
Fun Games to Proof Flatwork Skills
K9 Kudos: The Jumping Chollas and Their Juniors
Agility Organization Update
Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Clean Run Magazine - October 2008
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 2
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Contents
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 4
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Editorializing: The Agility Gene
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 9
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 10
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 11
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 12
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 13
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Why Teach Your Dog to Jump?
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 15
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 16
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 17
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 18
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 19
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Trainer’s Forum
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 21
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 22
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 23
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Handling Your Dog in Awesome Style, Part 7: Basic Turns with Turning Obstacles
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 25
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 26
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 27
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 28
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 29
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 30
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 31
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 32
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Is Your Agility Stagnant?
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 34
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 35
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Four-on-the-floor Contacts: A New Method for Training the End Contact Behavior, Part 2
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 37
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 38
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 39
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 40
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 41
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Conquering Ring Nerves: Fueling Up to Run Fast and Clean
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 43
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 44
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Starting as a Team, Part 5
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 46
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 47
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 48
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 49
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 50
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Canine Health Care: Frequently Asked Questions
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 52
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 53
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 54
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - When Pigs Fly: Getting a Handle on a Greased Pig
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 56
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 57
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 58
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 59
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 60
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 61
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Foundation Fundamentals: Recalls
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 63
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 64
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 65
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 66
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Power Paws Patterns: Number Nine
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 68
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 69
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 70
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Cece’s Gym Exercise of the Month: Wind Sprints
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Skill of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 73
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 74
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Fun Games to Proof Flatwork Skills
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 76
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 77
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 78
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 79
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 80
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 81
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - K9 Kudos: The Jumping Chollas and Their Juniors
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 83
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 84
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Agility Organization Update
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 86
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 87
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 88
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 89
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 91
Clean Run Magazine - October 2008 - 92
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