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Practice Courses I manage a training barn for the Columbia Agility Team, and on Friday nights when I don't have a trial to go to or be at, I build a course and invite the CAT members to come on down and run it. I'll post the courses with commentary here. You can download the maps, or "mouse-over" them to get a better look.
Courses not yet run will be marked as such, and descriptions updated once they've been tried out!
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Feb.26 2010... Largest turnout yet for our Friday Night Agility, so we had several dogs in most jmp heights and all heights had representation! This course was fun to run with handling challenges at the wrap on 3, 270 then to #7 was a motion challenge, handling the poles into the corner, and the 11,12,13,14 sequence! Any time a designer gives you poles diagonally into a corner, look for the next obstacle to bait you into not handling those final poles! It takes a lot of confidence to rely on independent weaves into a corner so you can get a head start on the next part! Fun Course! | |
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Feb.26, 2010... this course is a very fun "short track" for Novice or Starters to enjoy if the track above was too much! The speed in that long run to the weaves meant your dog needed to understand collecting for an entry! Then you had the same challenge as the advanced version... weaves into a corner. Faster dogs were tempted by the Tunnel/DW discrimination, especially if they sped through the teeter contact! | |
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This course has yet to
be built and run.... scheduled for Friday Dec. 11, I'm chickening
out due to freezing weather and immnent freezing rain and snow! It was designed in response to a special request for some Tunnel/DW discrimination, along with my own need to continue work on Flash's running contacts. I think it looks like fun, with some good challenges! |
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This course has yet to
be built and run.... its a variation on the course above. It was designed in response to a special request for some Tunnel/DW discrimination, along with my own need to continue work on Flash's running contacts. However this variation was my alternate plan when I realized that the sequences after the DW in the first variation may be a bit too challenging for this stage of Flash's running contact training. |
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This course was designed to provide plenty of practice with contacts, and basic 180's. It gave Sunny three chances to ignore a cue for the 180 and head on out to a contact... he LOVES contact obstacles, and he loves kicking bars when he spots a contact dead ahead! Eight dogs ran this. The area of most trouble was 14 through 17. Its tough when your line is curving one way, and you hit a 180 going the opposite way. Especially when speed is involved, and its hard to "get there". |
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I had a request for weaves, so this course was designed with TWO sets of weaves and three quite different entries! I also wanted to work "go on", which the opening through #4 definitely needed a good GO! This course turned out to be a lot of fun! Nine dogs showed up to run this. 1 through 4, and 11 to 13 seemed to be the parts that gave a lot of people trouble. A lot of dogs took the off course #20 jump after the teeter if the handlers didn't keep moving or rotated to look back at the dog. Download this Map |
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This was an ambitious (overly so) course design spawned out of frustration over some off-course options Flash had chosen at a recent trial. There are two courses mapped out because I wanted to work Flash (and myself) hard not taking off courses. He learns the course very quickly, so running the same course over again doesn't teach him to pay more attention... in fact it has the opposite effect. We had six dogs/teams show up to give this a try. Most had not learned to handle the threadle, so that threw a curve ball to many. On the green course, the sweep around to the tunnel/DW discrimination, then hitting the #12 jump right after was a challenge! Download this Map |
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Flash and Sunny are from Hidden Valley Border Collies, in Oregon.
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