Foundations course lasts for 12 weeks and contains 6 thoroughly designed chapters. Every step is explained in details in WRITTEN, VIDEO and AUDIO content. You will also get PDF for each chapter.
Who the agility foundations course is for?
The goal of the agility foundations course is to prepare and teach any dog and their handler everything they need to know to be able to compete in A1.
The course is appropriate for:
Total beginners, new to the sport of agility who would like to try it out.
Young dogs, 8 months of age or older.
Handlers who struggle with chaotic runs.
Handlers, whose dogs often go behind their backs and ignore their cues.
Handlers, whose dogs often spin in the course and bark at them instead of taking the next obstacle.
Handlers who don’t quite have a training plan in place and would like to create their own clear-cut/black-and-white system of training and handling their dog on the course.
Handlers who feel like they don’t have a good connection with their dog on the course.
What you and your dog will learn:
- Why it is important to keep a good connection on the course and how to achieve it.
- The importance of leading hand.
- How to properly perform front, blind, rear cross and ketchka.
- How to teach your dog efficiently and independently perform jumps.
- Tunnels – how to keep the connection once dog enters one and how to explain the dog to follow you and ignore the tunnel in front of them.
- Sending to obstacles – how to efficiently send to the certain obstacle and how to avoid your dog pulling away from the obstacle and spinning on the course.
- Calling to hand.
- Forward focus and independence.
- Tight turns.
- Soft turns.
- Backside and backside wrap.
- Listening skills.
- Beginning of discriminations.
- Many sequences, where you can practise everything you learned in each lesson.
Once you enroll in the course, there is already a prerequisit chapter waiting for you with 5 lessons on what you can already work on before the class starts. It contains material on rewarding, impulse control and beginning of obstacle focus (without actual agility obstacles).
The equipment you will need in the course:
- 3 barrels or similar objects (alternatively, you could also use cones or jump wings),
- 6 jumps (for the last 2 courses in Chapter 6, you would need 7 jumps),
- 2 tunnels.
The equipment you will need in each chapter:
Chaper 1:
- 3 barrels (instead, you can use cones or jump wings, but I would advice you to have an object similar to the shape of a barrel),
- 2 jumps,
- 1 tunnel.
Chapter 2:
- 4 jumps,
- 2 barrels (cones, wings),
- 2 tunnels.
Chapter 3:
- 4-5 jumps (you can do everything with 4, with slightly different set up),
- 2 tunnels
Chaper 4:
- 6 jumps,
- 2 tunnels
Chaper 5:
- 5 jumps,
- 2 tunnels
Chaper 6:
- 7 jumps (you need 7 jumps only for the last 2 longer courses, for everything else, 6 is enough),
- 2 tunnels.
What you can expect from me:
- Replies in 1 working day,
- detailed feedback on your dog’s performance and suggestions on how to make it even better,
- detailed feedback on your handling and suggestions on how to make it better and clearer for your dog,
- help with finding the best handling system for you and your dog,
- support on every step and any problem that might occur during training.
Purchase possibilities:
- working participant – get acces to all material, can ask questions, can post videos and gets my replies on them within 1 working day, can see other people’s videos and questions.
- auditor – get acces to all material, can ask questions, can see other people’s videos and questions.
