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Obstacle Discrimination Obstacle discrimination skills are useful in all agility venues. They usually involve two different obstacles such as the dogwalk and tunnel, or chute and weave poles, or two similar obstacles such as two jumps, two tunnels, or two contact obstacles, in close proximity to each other. Typically, you are asked to either push your dog to the correct obstacle or call him in to the correct obstacle. To push the dog out, you need to put pressure on the dog’s path at the correct time. To get the dog to come in, you need to release pressure on the dog’s path. A typical obstacle discrimination challenge is illustrated in Figure 8. When the handler wants the dog to take the tunnel, she must put pressure on his path as in Figure 8a. When she wants the dog to take the A-frame, she can use deceleration and the release of pressure to get the dog to collect and take the inside obstacle as in Figure 8b. Handlers may also see situations where the difficulty of the obstacle discrimination is increased because the dog is distracted by an obvious choice and expected to take the less obvious obstacle. In Figure 9, for example, the dog comes out of a tunnel and the obvious obstacle is the dogwalk. The correct obstacle is actually the jump. The handler may need to use an Out command, as well as put pressure on the dog’s path and accelerate forward, to keep the dog from curling in toward the dogwalk and get him out to the jump. In training, you can use gates to show your dog the correct path. Out Here 8A 8B The use of pressure is very effective in obstacle discriminations, even when working at a distance. Gambles that Don’t Allow Lateral Distance to the Obstacles Out, Jump! 9 Use pressure and a verbal Out to direct your dog past the end of the dogwalk and out to the jump. Another challenge might be an obstacle or series of obstacles at a distance where the handling line that restricts you (as in Gamblers, Chances, or FAST) does not parallel to the sequence. In Figure 10, the weave poles angle away from the handling line so the handler cannot maintain lateral distance as the dog is performing the obstacle. A similar type of challenge is sending the dog straight out ahead of you to take obstacles, with you staying back behind a line, as shown in Figure 11. 3 4 5 2 3 1 2 11 1 10 Notice how the weave poles angle away from the handling line. Here the dog must go straight ahead while the handler stays behind the green handling line. 43 September 08 | Clean Run

Clean Run Magazine - September 2008

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

Clean Run Magazine - September 2008
Contents
Editorializing: What’s Really Important?
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility
Backyard Dogs
Budget Tricks: Find the Money You Need to Train, Travel, and Trial
Cece’s Gym Exercise of the Month: Balance Board
Handling Your Dog in Awesome Style, Part 6: Standard Cue Combinations
Trainer's Forum
Is it Time? How to Know When to Retire Your Agility Dog
Foundation Fundamentals: Side Work
Need Volunteers? Roll Out the Red Carpet
Cutting the Cord: Teaching Your Dog to Work Away, Part 3
Skill of the Month
Four-on-the-floor Contacts: A New Method for Training the End Contact Behavior, Part 1
Focus on Start Lines
When Pigs Fly: You Can’t Q if You Can’t Do the Poles, Part 3
He’s Not a Natural… So What! Training the “Unusual” Breed
Power Paws Patterns: Number Eight
Canine Health Care: Frequently Asked Questions
Distance Challenge
Shelter Champs: Tiger
Word Search
Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Clean Run Magazine - September 2008
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 2
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Contents
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 4
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Editorializing: What’s Really Important?
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 9
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 10
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Budget Tricks: Find the Money You Need to Train, Travel, and Trial
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 12
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 13
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 14
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Cece’s Gym Exercise of the Month: Balance Board
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 16
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 17
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 18
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 19
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Handling Your Dog in Awesome Style, Part 6: Standard Cue Combinations
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 21
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 22
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 23
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 24
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 25
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Trainer's Forum
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 27
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 28
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Is it Time? How to Know When to Retire Your Agility Dog
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 30
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 31
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Foundation Fundamentals: Side Work
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 33
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 34
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Need Volunteers? Roll Out the Red Carpet
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 36
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 37
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 38
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 39
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Cutting the Cord: Teaching Your Dog to Work Away, Part 3
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 41
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 42
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 43
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 44
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 45
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Skill of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 47
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Four-on-the-floor Contacts: A New Method for Training the End Contact Behavior, Part 1
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 49
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 50
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 51
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 52
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Focus on Start Lines
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 54
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - When Pigs Fly: You Can’t Q if You Can’t Do the Poles, Part 3
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 56
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 57
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 58
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 59
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 60
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 61
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - He’s Not a Natural… So What! Training the “Unusual” Breed
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 63
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 64
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 65
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 66
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 67
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 68
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Power Paws Patterns: Number Eight
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 70
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 71
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 72
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Canine Health Care: Frequently Asked Questions
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 74
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Distance Challenge
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 76
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 77
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 78
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Shelter Champs: Tiger
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 80
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 81
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 83
Clean Run Magazine - September 2008 - 84
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