Tips, Articles, & Thoughts From Dog Agility Coach And Competitor Daisy Peel
In this Agility Challenge Tip, I’ll speak on the topic of how to break down what might seem like an insurmountable list of training tasks in to chunks, in order to attain REAL agility mastery.
🎯Never again be limited by the belief ‘but my dog isn’t toy motivated’!
If your dog is FOOD motivated, you are actually ➡️AHEAD OF THE GAME⬅️ when it comes to teaching your dog how to meaningfully interact with you with a training toy! 🏹💪🏻🤩🐶
Why you should take off your watch and avoid looking at the clock when you train. And how to define when and how a training session SHOULD end, instead of defining it in terms of minutes and seconds on the clock.
Is your training actually productive? Do you enjoy it? Or do you view it as drudgery, something to be suffered through?
In this Challenge Tip, I’ll dive in to how you can really get to the ‘sweet spot’ in practice and training, and how to get away from the unproductive swamp of ‘shallow practice’.
Instructions for how to build your own PVC dog agility wing jumps. Also legal for competition in some organizations!
Teaching, just like anything else, is a skill that must be developed. GOOD teachers are those who have practiced good teaching skills. There are a lot of instructors out there in our sport who have not paid as much attention as they could to the practice of actually TEACHING. Here are 5 ways to pick a teacher or coach who will actually help you improve and GROW your skills.