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Wendy Pape, AKC Agility World Team Member and an AKC and USDAA Nationals finalist, has several great exercises for her students to work on their visual thinking and memory. First, she asks her students to picture the street they live on. Can they picture the color of the neighbors’ cars? The colors of the neighbors’ mailboxes? Details about houses on their street? Wendy recommends that her students also practice the following to help with understanding course flow and recalling courses: write down a list of items you need from the grocery store. Then in your mind, map where each one is and how to walk through the store and get each item—how you would flow around the store. Go to the store and see if you can follow your “course plan” and see how correct you are. Figure 7 shows a sample list and flow. A similar exercise is practiced in agility classes today, shadow handling. Shadow handling is where you practice handling the course without your dog. You can do this on the course and you can also do this on the sidelines with your eyes closed, much like many athletes do in the Olympics. The third exercise Wendy likes to do is one she had us do at Awesome Paws Camp: Set up a speed circle of jumps and then give the command Jump the moment the dogs’ front feet touch the ground from the previous jump. Sounds easier than it is. It’s also a good exercise for those on the sidelines to watch and play along. You can do this at shows. Watch for the exact moment when dogs land after jumps and say the next obstacle cue at that point. 7 The Store H Shopping List L A B C I H D Lettuce Apples Bread Cereal Ice Cream L A D B Hamburger Dog Food C I Enter ➧ Exit ➧ For More Information on Visual Thinking • Gladwell, Malcom. Blink, Back Bay Books, 2005/2007 ISBN: 978-0-316-01066-5 • McKim, Robert H. Thinking Visually: A Strategy Manual for Problem Solving. Dale Seymour Publishing, 1980. ISBN: 0866514236 • McKim, Robert H. Experiences in Visual Thinking. 2nd ed. Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1980. ISBN: 0818504110 • http://mediachops.com/design_chops/1_visual_thinking/html/frame_holder.htm • www.squidoo.com/Visualthinking/ • www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs024/index.html December 07 | Clean Run 49
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Clean Run Magazine - December 2007
Contents
Editorializing: Are We Driving the Common Sense Out of Our Dogs?
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Backyard Dogs
How Rude! The Ins and Outs of Trial Etiquette
On Course with Webb and Leslie Anderson
Games for Thinking Dogs
Help! I Can’t Keep Up: Jumping Odds and Ends
In Cider
City Dogs
Trainer's Forum
Being Black and White, Part 3: The Contacts
Converging Lines: Pushing Your Dog Toward the Correct Obstacle
In a Blink: Visual Thinking in Dog Agility
Evaluating Structure in the Performance Dog
Power Paws Patterns: Number Two
Spy Kids: Planning for the Future
Case Study: Teeter Trouble
Distance Challenge
No Not That One!
The Judge’s Debriefing
Mental Management®: Handling Disappointment
Master Plan
Agility Organization Update
Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Clean Run Magazine - December 2007
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 2
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Contents
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 4
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Editorializing: Are We Driving the Common Sense Out of Our Dogs?
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 9
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 10
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 11
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 12
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - How Rude! The Ins and Outs of Trial Etiquette
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 14
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 15
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - On Course with Webb and Leslie Anderson
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 17
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 18
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 19
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Games for Thinking Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 21
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 22
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Help! I Can’t Keep Up: Jumping Odds and Ends
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 24
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 25
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 26
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - In Cider
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 28
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 29
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - City Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 31
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 32
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 33
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Trainer's Forum
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 35
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 36
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 37
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Being Black and White, Part 3: The Contacts
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 39
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 40
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Converging Lines: Pushing Your Dog Toward the Correct Obstacle
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 42
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 43
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 44
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 45
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - In a Blink: Visual Thinking in Dog Agility
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 47
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 48
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 49
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 50
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 51
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Evaluating Structure in the Performance Dog
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 53
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 54
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Power Paws Patterns: Number Two
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 56
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 57
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 58
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Spy Kids: Planning for the Future
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 60
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 61
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 62
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Case Study: Teeter Trouble
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 64
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 65
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 66
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 67
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 68
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Distance Challenge
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 70
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 71
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 72
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - No Not That One!
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 74
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 75
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - The Judge’s Debriefing
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 77
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 78
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 79
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 80
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Mental Management®: Handling Disappointment
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 82
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 83
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Master Plan
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 85
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 86
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Agility Organization Update
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 88
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 89
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 91
Clean Run Magazine - December 2007 - 92
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