Clean Run Magazine - June 2010 - 3

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The magazine for dog agiliTy enThusiasTs June 10 Volume 16 number 6

PHOTO © Jennifer BrOwn DVM anD SHerMan O. CanaPP DVM

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Wildcard Strategy: Decisions, Decisions Wildcard tests the handler’s and dog’s abilities to discriminate between and maneuver around obstacles set closely together. The planning and thinking required for success in Wildcard is applicable to other agility classes, especially the ability to navigate tight spaces with many obstacle traps. By Jeff Boyer

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Platelet Rich Plasma: Is It the Future of Ligament and Tendon Injury Care? PRP is a regenerative medicine therapy that is thought to hasten healing of tissues when applied directly to the site of injury. Performance dogs can suffer significant tendon and ligament injuries and PRP is now being considered for treatment. By Peter J. Lotsikas, DVM, DACVS & Jennifer A. Brown, DVM, DACVS

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Coaching and Technical Skills Development: The Relationship Between Instructing and Coaching Can you transition from instructing to coaching with your clients? You may have to adopt the techniques of both instructing and coaching to get your point across. Also learn how to be a better coach when helping clients with their technical skills development. By Steve Croxford

12 Training for Independent Contact Performance Most dogs have to overcome a few challenges to learn and maintain independent contact performance. Here we’ll focus on suggestions for tackling those challenges. By Andrea Dexter 24 Understanding and Training Lead-out Pivots Having a reliable lead-out is so important. The beginning of the course should never give you cause to wonder if your dog will understand the challenge or take the correct line. Anyone can teach a dog to understand the lead-out pivot; it just takes practice. By Nancy Gyes

Features
5 Editorializing: The Honeymoon Is Over You have incredible success at your first trials, but then all of a sudden things that worked no longer work. You’ve hit a plateau and agility isn’t the piece of cake you envisioned it to be. By Jim Mihalek 70 Can You Handle It? 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. By Marquand Cheek
32 It’s Your Turn! Cue #4: The Rear Cross, Part 1 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’s the fourth cue, the rear cross. By Sandy Rogers 65 Lights! Action! Video! Using Video for Analyzing Your Agility Runs Video analysis may well be agility’s most valuable secret fix. Unlike memory, a video isn’t subjective; it records exactly what took place. No matter what your competition level, reviewing videos will show what you are doing well, the skills you need to work on, and how to correct the flaws in your training program. By Kip Kirby

39 And Let That Be a Lesson Serious essayists write poignant stories about what their dogs have taught them. It’s time for a new perspective. What have we taught our dogs? Here’s what the author has taught her one and only agility dog, all lessons totally untainted by any previous experience. By Judy Sutton 44 What’s My Plan? 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 . By Greg Derrett, Rachel Sanders, and Jane Simmons-Moake 54 Train to Maintain: Tunnel Discriminations 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. By Mary Ellen Barry

Columns
6 7 8 Tip of the Month By Lynn Baitinger Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility… By Brenna Fender Backyard Dogs By Stuart Mah

62 CR Central By Annie Pyle 79 Nested Courses for a Small Universe By Debbie Sacerich

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