AG175: Jumping Gymnastics

A sampling of what prior students have said about this course ...

Took this class at bronze level, so this is my first chance to give feedback to the instructors, but just wanted to say that I learned SO MUCH from this course! For once, I was good about following the gold threads and it was so educational to watch the student videos and read Sarah and Leslie's feedback. It was also very inspirational to see the progress that the different gold students and their dogs made.

I have a young dog who is just learning to jump and I feel reasonably confident that I can come up with a plan to teach him jumping skills and work on his conditioning. If there's one thing I take away from this course it's the importance of the strength and conditioning exercises: you could definitely see the gold dogs get stronger and become more confident and skilled at jumping. Such a far cry from what I did with my first agility dog: just let her figure things out on her own!           

In the years I have taken agility with my dogs, very little time has been spent on the correct way for dogs to do the jumps in agility. Yet jumps are probably the biggest single part of agility. So to me it is a critical part of agility. I will definitely be using this with my other agility dogs and am really sorry I didn't take the class 6-7 years ago. Great class and think highly of it. Worth it to anyone who is working on better jumping skills in agility for their dogs.     

Sarah and Leslie were amazing. I took the course at bronze but I got so much out of the lectures and following the gold threads. As the gold students worked through problems with grid spacing and training the exercises, it gave me an idea of how to change/alter things for my dog when he struggled a bit. My 2 yo dog (will likely compete at 24") had never jumped more than 10-12" before this class. Now he is comfortably up to 20" for declarative jumping and 16" for the grids. Huge improvement in a short amount of time! Thanks!

Really enjoyed this course. Impressed to see how much the course dogs improved. Pleased to see the improvement in my dogs as well.

 Learning jumping skills and exercises to support them in one class was too good an opportunity to pass up. The feedback was excellent with suggestions on how to modify the exercises and jump work for your dog. In reading the other gold threads it was obvious that a cookie cutter approach was not used. Suggestions were very specific to each dog. Concern for the dog's safety was evident in modifications suggested to jump height, exercise equipment used, etc. Feedback was given very regularly, sometimes twice a day which was appreciated. I did the exercises with my other dogs as well. One of them went swimming this week (week 6 of the class) and the therapist commented that he was swimming much better with his rear legs extended rather than in the usual frog dog. The course has had an obvious benefit for him. Overall a fabulous course. I wish there was a followup to it. Thank you Sarah and Leslie.