As I’ve said many times before, you should never have to go “back” to foundation training, because you should never have gotten that far away from in the first place!

Foundation skills are called foundation skills because they are the root, the basis, the foundation for everything else! And, if you neglect them, they will weaken, and everything else weakens too.

So, if you have time for nothing else in your training, make sure you’re addressing the foundations of training, the fundamentals – because strengthening the fundamentals strengthens everything else as well. I’m talking about hard skills here, primarily! What is a ‘hard’ skill? Check out this Agility Challenge Tip to learn more!

March 4, 2024
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Agility Challenge Tip #10 – honor the hard skills

🐾🚀 Super Stations! 🏋️‍♀️🐕 Daisy Peel spills the secrets of “station training” to turbocharge your agility game in this free webinar replay! 🐶💨📺

March 1, 2024
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Webinar Replay – Station Training

To build soft skills you should behave less like a careful carpenter and more like a skateboarder in a skateboard park: aggressive, curious, and experimental, always seeking new ways to challenge yourself. Dig in to this concept more with Daisy Peel in this week’s Agility Challenge Tip!

February 26, 2024
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Agility Challenge Tip #9 – To build soft skills, play like a skateboarder

To develop reliable hard skills, you have to connect the right wires in your brain. You want to be careful, slow, and highly aware of errors. You want to work like a careful carpenter. Dig more in to this concept in this week’s Agility Challenge Tip with Daisy!

February 19, 2024
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Agility Challenge Tip #8 – To build hard skills, work like a carpenter

The first step toward building a skill is to figure out exactly what type of skill you’re building. Every skill falls into one of two categories: hard skills and soft skills. Again, this tip comes from Daniel Coyle’s The Little Book Of Talent, and is adapted for use by us agility handlers! Read on to discover the difference between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills in dog agility!

February 12, 2024
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Agility Challenge Tip #7 – Figure out if it’s a hard or soft skill

It’s tempting to think that if we don’t have the latest and greatest this or that, we’ll never be successful. If we don’t have the latest and greatest dog toy, how will our dog ever be as motivated as that super motivated border collie over there? If we don’t have the latest and greatest equipment – the best jumps, the prettiest tunnels, a heated arena with an amazing turf surface – how can we possibly be the best we can possibly be? But, do we really NEED all that fancy stuff to be our best and make progress with our dog agility handling and training?

February 5, 2024
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Agility Challenge Tip #6 – Choose Spartan Over Luxurious