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Agility Fix-It DVD - Contacts and Weave Poles (2005)
The first volume of the new Julie Daniels Agility Fix-It
DVD series! This is a step-by-step demonstration of operant training by one of
the most successful trainers and competitors in agility.
Jump Into Agility: AKC Agility Program Video
(2000)
From the A-frame to the Weave Poles, this video is a
great introduction to an exciting dog sport. Also shows two
different physically challenged handlers running dogs. AKC
rules.
Excelling at Dog Agility: Book 1, Obstacle Training
(1999)
By Jane Simmons-Moake. State-of-the-art, step by step
instructions for training your dog to master each agility
obstacle with safety, fun and competitive excellence in
mind.
Excelling at Dog Agility, Book 2: Sequence Training
(2000)
Follows Excelling at Dog Agility, Book 1. Helps you develop
a consistent set of cues for communicating with your dog on
the agility course. As a result, your dog will understand
your directions in an instant, even at the highest of speeds
and the greatest of distances.
Excelling at Dog Agility, Book 3: Advanced Skills Training
(2002)
By Jane Simmons-Moake. Illustrates how to isolate and train
many of the higher-level skills necessary to successfully
compete at the most advanced levels of competition.
Walking the Course DVD (2005)
Written by Kathy Keats. Learn how to use your walk-through
time effectively and plan your agility runs. Walking the
course effectively is one of the most important skills you
can develop.
Stretching the Performance Dog DVD (2005)
Written by Debbie Gross Saunders. Dogs doing agility and
other performance sports need to be treated as athletes.
Stretching prepares the body for movement and helps make the
transition from static inactivity to dynamic activity
without strain.
Clean Run Exercise Sourcebook (2003)
Have you
gone out to the backyard with the few obstacles you have
available and realized that you didn't have any more ideas?
The exercises were developed by top handlers, trainers, and
instructors and have appeared in Clean Run magazine.
Do-It-Yourself Agility Equipment (2002)
By Jim Hutchins. You will find 27 detailed construction
plans for making everything from a welded aluminum A-frame
to contact training hoops. Each plan includes a list of
materials and tools needed as well as numerous illustrations
to help simplify the construction of each obstacle.
Great Dog ... Shame about the Handler! Video (2003)
Greg Derrett's second video on agility training takes you
through more than fifty training exercises. There is a
booklet containing all exercises.
Agility Tricks for Improved Attention, Flexibility &
Confidence (1999)
From Donna Duford and Clean Run, nine tricks designed to
make agility training more fun for you and your dog, and to
improve attention, flexibility and confidence.
Clean Run Magazine: Focus on Jumping Issue
Topics include giving your puppy a head start on his jump
training, gridwork for the agility dog, understanding leads,
a look at the physics of jumping, altering your dog's stride
for tighter turns, the top 10 reasons that dogs knock bars,
controlling your dog's jumping arc and more.
Clean Run Magazine: Focus on Weave Poles Issue
Step-by-step instructions for teaching your dog to weave
using a variety of methods and also discusses the pros and
cons of different techniques, proofing your dog, health
issues regarding weaving, teaching weave poles in a class
situation, and more!
Clean Run Magazine: Focus on Contacts Issue
Karen Pryor discusses how cues reinforce contact
performance, Linda Mecklenburg shares her one-rear-toe-on
training method and her jungle gym teeter training method,
and Susan Garrett discusses the importance of the verbal
release in holding contacts..
In Focus: Developing a Working Relationship with Your
Performance Dog (2004)
This book was written by Deborah Jones, Ph.D. & Judy Keller.
Shows how to use the author's FOCUS program to develop or
repair the underlying working relationship you need to
succeed in agility or any performance dog sport.
Your Secret Coach (2002)
Your
mind can be your harshest critic and your most destructive
enemy on the agility course. Learn how you can turn your
mind into your most useful ally, best friend and
consummate coach so that it can help you bring consistency,
confidence and competence to your performance.
Your Athletic Dog Video & Workbook (1995)
By Suzanne Clothier. Movement analysis, exercise physiology,
function. Vet approved exercises for flexibility & injury
prevention. Includes 110 page workbook. Gives you a deeper
understanding of the factors that shape athletic ability in
the athletic dog.
Jumping from A to Z - Teach Your Dog to Soar
(1996)
By veterinarian Chris Zink. It is for anyone
involved in training and conditioning a canine athlete for
agility or flyball. It gives you a complete jump-training
program from puppyhood to old age, a complete canine
conditioning program, and also solutions to jumping
problems.
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