Trkman Method
Adrian Rowan is a young handler in Kentucky who has been training running-contacts with her Border Collie Panic. They started in April 2009, using Silvia Trkman’s method. Adrian reports that Panic has only missed one contact in competition.
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Kristin Cowell has been training running-contacts with her Golden Retriever Rue since March of this Year. Kristin’s blog — Tails of Gold — is nicely categorized so it is easy to find all of the appropriate posts. Simply click on running contacts in the categories list on the right hand panel of her blog and [...]
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UK agility champion Toni Dawkins works through the process of training running contacts. Is it worth it?
When should you retrain a stopped contact to a running contact? Trainer Bonnie Norris made a choice that seems to be paying off for her.
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New video running contact training videos from Nina Mayer and Jay.
Training a running dogwalk in the living room! Sassie Joiris finds a way to get additional training time with her ingenious indoor setup.
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I created a new page today. It will have videos that show the running contact training process condensed into a single video. These are Trkman method videos at this point, but I will create similar pages for other methods if I find enough video to make that worthwhile. These types of videos give an overview [...]
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 [...]