Dogwalk
This is a page of links to single videos that are compilations of the Trkman running-contact method. Most of them show the process from beginning to end but are short of detail. They are useful as a summary of the process and also a way to see lots of different types of dogs being trained. [...]
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 [...]
Zsuzsa Veres and her dogs Zsuzsa Veres has won a first place and a third place at the Hungarian National Agility Championships . She has competed at the European Open three times and Qualified for the FCI World Agility Championships twice. Her YouTube Channel has a lot of competition videos as well as a selection [...]
Ingerid Magrete lives in Norway and is currently training her dog Orkan to do running contacts using Sylvia Trkman’s method. Orkan is a yellow Schipperke, born in February 2008. Ingerid is talking about the training process on her blog The Wins and Losses of a Clicker Trained Agility Dog. You can search the blog for [...]
I discovered some more video links. This time from Swedish Trainer Emilie Svensson. Emelie has a YouTube playlist of her running-contact training with her PyrShep Magi. She also has a blog that is related but it is in Swedish so I can’t tell you much about it. The Playlist starts at the end of the [...]
I’ve added a new trainer to the running-contact training videos and blog entries. The newest trainer is from Melanie Miller from North Carolina. Melanie documents the training of her Border Collie Smitten, in her blog and on YouTube. It’s a thorough account showing the full training process. The link to Melanie’s web site, blog and [...]
Yesterday I added some new things to the Resources section (see the tab at the top). There is now a page of links to Blog’s and Diaries on training running-contacts using Silvia Trkman’s method. Other training methods will be coming soon. Just a few training blogs at the moment but they are good ones. More [...]