Clean Run Magazine - April 2008 - 56

The running A-frame seems to be holding up and looks reliable at a height of 5'6". The two top stride-regulating bumps are still in place. The one at the bottom of the A-frame has been removed and has been placed 4' from the bottom. Sweep hits in the yellow, hits the ground, jumps the bump, and retrieves his toy. The teeter work is still in progress as described in last month’s article. Sweep practiced the letter “A” Alphabet Drill this month as well as continued training on T drills to work on bending on the jumps and turning tightly. We are also focusing on simple grid While we were taking photos Marcy caught Sweep in the act of moving out of his stay and jumping onto the end of the teeter. We don’t normally send him from the front of the teeter, but you can see that he understands his job of pulling down the board, flipping himself around, and moving into target position. He found the board and the target too tempting to refuse. In the T drill shown here, Sweep starts from a sit-stay a few feet in front of the jump. Jim turns as soon as he releases him to jump. Sweep swings in line with Jim over the bar of the jump and is rewarded in the front-cross position. work with Sweep because as his excitement for jumping and speed has increased, the quality of his jumping has decreased and he is taking down a bar once in a while. Some letter A drills are shown in Figures 3 through 6. For more letter A drills, go to www.powerpawsagility.com and look in the articles section. Have fun with the letter A drills and I hope you are enjoying training your pup as much as we do ours. D 3 5 2 4 5 2 1 3 4 4 RC 3 1 Nancy Gyes and her husband Jim Basic run Power Paws Agility in San Jose, California. She has been the AKC World Team Coach since 2006, and has been on the AKC World Team seven times, four years with Scud and three with Riot. Nancy and Riot finished 1st in 2002 and 2nd in 2001 in Individual Agility classes at the FCI Agility World Championships. Nancy also won the USDAA Nationals four years in a row, 1998 to 2001, with three different dogs, Scud, Riot, and Wicked. In 2001 and 2002, Nancy and Riot were the 24" jump height AKC National Champions. Contact Nancy at www.powerpawsagility.com where you can also view other articles and videos. Your dog is on your left side for this drill; no side changes. Repeat the previous drill but keep the dog on your right and do a rear cross at #1 to #2. Your dog is on your left side from #3 to #5. 5A 2 4 6 7 5B 2 4 6 3 6 3 5 1 3 2 FC 1 5 7 FC 5 FC 1 4 Begin with your dog on your left and do a front cross on the landing side of #3. The dog is on your right to #4 do another front cross on the takeoff side of #5. Lead out to #2 and do a front cross back to #3. Keep your dog on your right through to #5. 56 Clean Run | April 08

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