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AG355: 101 Agility Applications for a Dot

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AG355: 101 Agility Applications for a Dot

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Are you looking for a new way to approach agility training both inside and outside the ring? Or a new solution to your agility training projects or problems? Let me introduce you to a dot! 

Dots are currently my absolute favorite thing to use in agility. I have found them to be such a flexible training tool that you can apply them to almost anything you want to tackle or learn within the agility space. 

In this class, we will be doing just that! We will start by teaching your dog the basic foundation of what to do with a dot and then proof that basic understanding in different situations and environments. Then from there, the applications will be extremely flexible and endless! Due to the value that we will very quickly and easily build up for these dots, you and your dog will learn how you can apply your dots to your general agility training and agility–related behavior training goals. 

Because there probably are quite literally 101 ways that you can apply dots to agility, for the sake of this class, we are going to be applying the dots in a few specific overarching ways:

  • Single jump skills including independent backsides (wrap/slice), threadles (wrap/slice), and tight turns.
  • Arousal layering and big feelings around agility
  • Anti-rushing and commitment work for jumps
  • Environmental acclimation
  • Forward focus and distance work
  • Stopped contact independence
  • Independence for weaving (for dogs already weaving!)
  • Start lines
  • Structure for when something goes wrong in training 

This class will act as a “choose your own dot adventure” of sorts where you can make the scope of your dot-related focus as narrow or as broad as you’d like by choosing how many topics you want to focus on throughout class. (And that can obviously change as class goes on!)

Regardless, you will walk away with a powerful new training tool and new way to approach your agility training!

Training Approach:

 

Bronagh DalyInstructor: Bronagh Daly

Bronagh Daly is a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor, Certified Family Dog Mediator, Certified One Mind Dogs Instructor, and a graduate of the Aggression in Dogs Master Course. She does not believe in one-size-fits all...(Click here for full bio and to view her upcoming classes)

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Prerequisites and Equipment

The most important thing for this class will be dots of course! Here’s a pack on Amazon that I like:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSCWDS38?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

 

They also sell them in a smaller size that I find to be useful as well:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSCVYG35?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

 

For this class, you may want to use dots of different shapes and sizes. It’s not required, but for some dogs, it can help with context to have slightly different looking dots for different tasks. Some examples:

Stars: https://www.amazon.com/Unixing-Markers-Classroom-Preschool-Kindergarten/dp/B07W39XVPY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Y9ELZ5H6UPD0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n3Kbsx9Fw4OfokuiEmX40zL_2rgXoP9kO14ysSh5Hhp7UdoCH_fSID_XB7VrT1eYmEV7ycCd6UGkqTJwvBOo1h6Wh8WX4E9WK_skd4EbUT9-NjXz_oLGfpOcR2qWBGFsSY_CSGj5_gZlMwkIIQ3fLuicnXzJOVzeZ4XkbT48k-ajGD4IpeyIpQ4gB3ba9UChVp6BppVaW_2YeI2h_fJQ9jbrS52JNClraYEh9mpCglk.nRX5n4dA9emXe1g8ZrWSu3hB6oM-PrgmstkQLN8U38g&dib_tag=se&keywords=star%2Bshaped%2Bexercise%2Bdots&qid=1767910814&sprefix=star%2Bshaped%2Bexercise%2Bdots%2Cspecialty-aps%2C90&sr=8-1-catcorr&srs=118954632011&th=1

Feet: https://www.amazon.com/Markers-Colorful-Sitting-Position-Stations/dp/B0B68MSWQV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2V3P5AIAUQNMW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fN_ihX3GyYOe2UUqA7sc2sjcLqw2afyCRqgsTxiACzShaJDiAkaIxCpox0KI4VWNeqNEbViQaRXfSEL-Wk5EArHf0jYKvZu5JnsfWwn2sJkj6V9ccAY1Yj8VpwkUb726JjR6z5uYCKQUkDwxbA7au7sKpzdCQbRnJk3lQvEUz2Uy7CiD29C6EZjAmL-uvrVg-ec6oD3geMcySAwrDIXffwwH4nSuCsgGN1dnTTRTzYA.ctRij6xSd6iYfq6q2be1Qe8brP0Z2nNSq0VPhbrQgbg&dib_tag=se&keywords=shaped%2Bexercise%2Bdots&qid=1767910780&sprefix=shaped%2Bexercise%2Bdots%2Cspecialty-aps%2C98&sr=8-1-catcorr&srs=118954632011&th=1 

 

For other equipment necessary, it depends on what you are going to focus on.

Most focuses will need at least one jump to work with eventually. Those that may need other things are:

  • For jump work you will need something to send your dog around. This doesn’t have to be a wing!
  • For arousal layering, you will need 3 to 4 jumps for some of the exercises as well as a tunnel for some of the exercises. 
  • For contact work, you will need a contact board or leave contact equipment itself
  • For weave poles, you will need a set of weave poles. 6 poles should be fine unless your problem specifically involves 12
  • For start lines, you may want occasionally access to a full agility field or a small version of that at least

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