Monday Dragonfire Agility Daytime classes
held at Holbrook NY
Beginners class
for dogs that have never seen equipment. Handlers can be familiar with
equipment. Introduction to the equipment, how to teach your dog to jump,
weaves, contact obstacles will to shown to your dog. Handlers will learn how
to safely train the dogs to navigate around the obstacles. Obedience for
agility will be addressed, sit, stay, come which is crucial to training
agility. How to use food and toys in the training of agility will be shown to
the handlers and dogs.
Advanced Beginner
– once dog and handler have completed the beginner class, we continue
to show the dogs more of the equipment. The dogs will learn how to safely do
the obstacles. We will begin to work on handling and how to get your dogs
from one obstacle to the other. Handling, front and rear crosses, why we do
them are addressed in this class.
Novice
after completing Advanced Beginner class, dogs and handlers are putting
together more complicated skills and sequences. Weave training is moving
along nicely, more complicated entrances to poles.
Intermediate dogs and handlers are
working on more complicated sequences and skills. Weaves are almost
closed and see saw work is progressing nicely.
Competition dogs and handlers working more on
handling and more difficult sequences. Special skills will be taught;
front, rear crosses, switches, distance work and many other things a dog and
handler need to step into the competition agility ring.
Wednesday
Doggie U classes
Competition
Class
- Full size course is
run, dogs do closed weaves. Courses are more difficult and the sequences will
challenge the dog and handler team to work at all the levels of
competition, the *Novice,**Advanced/Open
and ***Masters/Excellent level.
*Novice is the first level of Agility Competition
**Advanced/Open is the second level of Agility Competition
***Masters/Excellent is the third and highest level of Agility Competition
Wednesday night 6pm class
participants
left to right
Joan, Doll, Marcia, Cindy,
Mary and Jan
