This setup came about in a very organic way. I just set up "work stations" to practice a particular skill or obstacle. As I have practiced this week this design kept growing on me because it was so versatile.
I have setup several numbered exercises, but there are so much more to be discovered.
Skills this design has allowed us to freshen up:
- Sending to backsides of tunnels (turns out of tunnels)
- Discriminations
- Tunnel / Weave - short collection distances, rear crosses, opposite ends of the tunnel, front crosses, and if you move the tunnels out a little you can do blind crosses out of the weaves, "not" the tunnel after the weaves
- Off set line of jumps. Irregular distances between jumps (scoping skills for the dog)
- Serps with obstacles other than jumps. For example, dogwalk-jump-weaves, backside of tunnel-jump-dogwalk**
- AFrame in a fast line, backside of tunnel-Aframe
- Triple-turns, and at the end of a fast line, or alone
- Very fast long lines of jumps
- Turns across the broad jump
- Slight angles onto contacts and manged (safety) dog walk entrances
- Send to weaves from the opposite end of the dog walk through the tunnel (yes, I saw this (actually AFrame) on a USDAA Starters course with Tangle)
I am sure there is so much more that I have not seen! I think that this setup will be around for a couple of weeks since I have not explored all of the possibilities yet.
**I have seen several courses setup lately that have less than friendly contact entrances (several on novice courses). In general I try to assist the dog by managing/shaping their entrance. However sometimes either you don't see the bad entrance or it happens accidentally so I train my dogs to straighten themselves before entering a contact. Post from Amanda Shyne seminar
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