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This month’s exercises focus on practicing Snooker skills. (See my article in CR June 2011 for an explanation of how to teach the skills.) Why focus on Snooker skills? Because even if you never play the game of Snooker, the skills that are needed to play the game are useful for handling other types of courses.

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Typically, when we talk about Snooker skills, most handlers tend to think of training the dog to run by an obstacle without taking it. Why would we need that for, say, AKC Excellent Standard? If you look at Figure 1, this mid-course segment requires the handler to get the dog from jump #11 to the #12 tunnel entry without taking the chute or the wrong end of the tunnel. The problem is that some clown put a set of weave poles in the way of what would be the typical handling path, which is shown by the green path. A handler moving along the blue path is much more likely to push the dog either into the chute or the wrong end of the tunnel. Now we could probably try to move the weaves, but most judges take a dim view of competitors moving their obstacles around! So, as handlers, we can either run the green path and be eliminated for crossing the plane of an obstacle (and swear about the judge), or we can run the blue path and push the dog into one of the oﬀ-course obstacles and be eliminated (and swear about the judge) Or, we can train the dog to move with the handler without taking an obstacle and get through the sequence cleanly. Once the handler and dog have developed these skills, we need to practice them. This is where the drills illustrated in Figures 2 through 9 come in handy. These drills are used to practice and refine the basic Snooker skills. As always, the sequences start oﬀ easy and become progressively harder and longer. As you work on them, remember

that the skill is teaching the dog to bypass an obstacle eﬃciently on a cue from the handler. If you plan a path that takes the dog well away from an oﬀ-course obstacle or you attempt to “heel” the dog between obstacles, then you are not teaching the skill, just attempting to get the sequence numerically correct. Instead, if necessary, soften the sequence so that you teach the skill, not the sequence pattern. D
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Clean Run - September 2011

Clean Run - September 2011
Contents
Editorializing: When a “Lifetime” Only Means Five Years
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility
Backyard Dogs
Who’s Premack and What Does He Have to Do with My Start Lines?
Power Paws Drills: Front Side, Back Side
Improving Your Sports Vision, Part 1
Choosing the Most Efficient Path for Your Dog: Decision Making
Dylan’s Story
Teaching FOCUS and Impulse-control Classes: Week 5
Ready, Set, Trial! Should You Move Up?
Agility Bloopers
Training to Your Weakness: Exercises for Dogs with a Straight Front
Building and Balancing Handler and Obstacle Focus, Part 6
Great Expectations
Agility Games to Play with Puppies
Challenges for Rising Stars: Snooker Expanded
Agility Defined by Me
Clean Run - September 2011 - Cover1
Clean Run - September 2011 - Cover2
Clean Run - September 2011 - Clean Run - September 2011
Clean Run - September 2011 - 2
Clean Run - September 2011 - Contents
Clean Run - September 2011 - 4
Clean Run - September 2011 - Editorializing: When a “Lifetime” Only Means Five Years
Clean Run - September 2011 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run - September 2011 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility
Clean Run - September 2011 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run - September 2011 - 9
Clean Run - September 2011 - 10
Clean Run - September 2011 - 11
Clean Run - September 2011 - Who’s Premack and What Does He Have to Do with My Start Lines?
Clean Run - September 2011 - 13
Clean Run - September 2011 - 14
Clean Run - September 2011 - 15
Clean Run - September 2011 - 16
Clean Run - September 2011 - 17
Clean Run - September 2011 - 18
Clean Run - September 2011 - Power Paws Drills: Front Side, Back Side
Clean Run - September 2011 - 20
Clean Run - September 2011 - 21
Clean Run - September 2011 - 22
Clean Run - September 2011 - 23
Clean Run - September 2011 - Improving Your Sports Vision, Part 1
Clean Run - September 2011 - 25
Clean Run - September 2011 - 26
Clean Run - September 2011 - 27
Clean Run - September 2011 - 28
Clean Run - September 2011 - Choosing the Most Efficient Path for Your Dog: Decision Making
Clean Run - September 2011 - 30
Clean Run - September 2011 - 31
Clean Run - September 2011 - 32
Clean Run - September 2011 - Dylan’s Story
Clean Run - September 2011 - 34
Clean Run - September 2011 - 35
Clean Run - September 2011 - Teaching FOCUS and Impulse-control Classes: Week 5
Clean Run - September 2011 - 37
Clean Run - September 2011 - 38
Clean Run - September 2011 - Ready, Set, Trial! Should You Move Up?
Clean Run - September 2011 - 40
Clean Run - September 2011 - 41
Clean Run - September 2011 - Agility Bloopers
Clean Run - September 2011 - Training to Your Weakness: Exercises for Dogs with a Straight Front
Clean Run - September 2011 - 44
Clean Run - September 2011 - 45
Clean Run - September 2011 - 46
Clean Run - September 2011 - 47
Clean Run - September 2011 - Building and Balancing Handler and Obstacle Focus, Part 6
Clean Run - September 2011 - 49
Clean Run - September 2011 - 50
Clean Run - September 2011 - 51
Clean Run - September 2011 - 52
Clean Run - September 2011 - Great Expectations
Clean Run - September 2011 - 54
Clean Run - September 2011 - 55
Clean Run - September 2011 - Agility Games to Play with Puppies
Clean Run - September 2011 - 57
Clean Run - September 2011 - 58
Clean Run - September 2011 - 59
Clean Run - September 2011 - Challenges for Rising Stars: Snooker Expanded
Clean Run - September 2011 - 61
Clean Run - September 2011 - 62
Clean Run - September 2011 - Agility Defined by Me
Clean Run - September 2011 - 64
Clean Run - September 2011 - Cover3
Clean Run - September 2011 - Cover4
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