Pre-Training options:
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Intro to K9 Sports (Optional 1 day workshop-style class offered occasionally, not every session)
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Life Skills for Sport Dogs (Optional class to work on basic manners-type skills needed for training and/or competitions)
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Party’s Over Here! (Optional class to work on focus and engagement)
The basic/beginning classes follow this flow and build upon each other. Each is a prerequisite for the next:
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Agility Foundations
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Advanced Foundations
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Agility Skills* / Advanced Skills*
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Beginning Handling*
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Handling*
(*Often Handlers will repeat classes for multiple sessions to further strengthen their skills or build confidence.)
These classes are optional to refine your skills after completing Agility Skills class:
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Jumpers Skills
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Teeter
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Contacts
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Weaves
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Implementing Elements (this class requires weaves, teeter, and contacts)
These higher level classes will help handlers work toward mastering their agility skills. Handlers often stay in these classes indefinitely throughout their dog’s agility career:
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Go with the Flow
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Extreme Weaves
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Master/International Handling
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Turning on the Jumps