There’s a good post on Daisy Peel’s blog yesterday. She was talking about the timing of cues for turns after the dogwalk with her dog Solar. Solar has running-contacts and has been trialing for about 8 months. Daisy talks about how Solar seems to have a point on the dogwalk where he commits to the [...]
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I came across Olga’s site a few days ago. Olga lives in Poland and she is training running-contacts with her Dutch Shepherd Eri. Olga is using a method that she says is influenced by Silvia Trkman’s method and also Ali Canova’s method. There is a foot target for the Dogwalk but not the A-Frame. So [...]
Kathy Mazzola has posted lots of nice footage of her running-contact training with her Border Collie Gorgeous. On her YouTube channel there are 16 videos showing many stages of training. The videos begin at the very early plank stage and go right to full contacts. Kathy has worked sequences into her plank work, which I [...]
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Zsuzsa Veres has competed with the Hungarian Agility Team at the FCI Dog Agility World Championships as well as the European Open. Her YouTube Channel has a lot of competition videos as well as a selection of training videos. She has videos of her running contact training with two of her dogs, Kaj and the [...]
Emily has some video of her training sessions with her Border Collie Josie. She is training a running Aframe and is using Rachel Sander’s box method. I didn’t see any video of the early sessions on the ground but there are a number of videos of the later stages. They are all on Emilie’s YouTube [...]
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Nina and her border Collie Jay live in Germany. They are training running-contacts using Silvia Trkman’s method. She has a blog/website that has a lot of agility posts on it. It is written in German so I am unable to tell you much more about it. Nina’s YouTube Channel has a lot of European agility [...]
Wendy Pendleton has some video of her training process with her awesome Golden Retriever, Cheetah. Wendy is training a running A-Frame using Rachel Sanders box method. The videos are on her YouTube Channel. I’ve created a playlist of them for easy viewing but I’m sure more will be added to her Channel as time goes [...]
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Today I noticed an article by Tracy Sklenar in Dog Sport Magazine. At the moment the article can be read on-line as a sample article. Tracy talks about some of the things to consider when choosing between stopped contacts and running-contacts. There are some thoughts on the differences in training and maintainance of both types [...]
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