Rachel Pearson Agility Seminar

The key to keeping your handling clean and timely is the ability to give cues (both body and verbal) before the dog has completed the previous action. Commitment to obstacles and behaviors is a vital foundational skill that is rarely isolated and focused on, and is the culprit for so many late cues, mis-timed crosses, and handlers left far behind the dog. This workshop will focus on teaching dogs to continue to perform behaviors to criteria despite being challenged by distraction (including the handler’s motion!) Appropriate for dogs of any age who can send around a wing/cone and go into a short tunnel.

Every agility handler has heard the age-old line “you’re late!” from a teacher/coach when we execute a cross/side change. We often recognize what “late” is, but what does “on time” look like? When should we be cuing the turn to the dog, and where should we be executing it? What does the footwork look like, and what path will mostly accurately show the dog where to go next? Learning front crosses, rear crosses, and blind crosses might SEEM elementary to a lot of agility handlers, but this seminar will deep-dive into these crosses, and teaching the HANDLER the mechanics and timing of the three crosses that are the basis of agility handling, no matter what your handling system is. Dogs must be 12mo and older, and completing sequences of 6-8 obstacles at a time.