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ONLINE TRAINING COURSES

The Agility Playground

Create the agility dog of your dreams while having FUN with your training! Level up your dog agility skills with this comprehensive membership that focuses on FUNdamentals, confidence, independence, and distance. 

Logical, step-by-step video and text lessons let you spend less time learning and more time doing. Monthly challenges keep you engaged and excited about learning. The supportive, friendly community provides a place to get help, find an accountability partner, celebrate successes, and make new friends. Monthly coaching calls highlight special topics and give you an opportunity to submit questions.

The membership has roadmaps for brand new teams, novice teams, experienced handlers who have a new dog, and experienced teams who need some help with distance handling.  There’s sure to be one that is just right for you!

Best of all – you can try it out for FREE! Click the button below to learn more about the 7-day free trial of The Agility Playground.

 

The Agility Playground Overview

Agility FUNdamentals for Distance: Foundations and Independent Obstacle Performance

Create a confident, independent dog who can work away from you with ease! Whether you are just getting started in agility, or you are an experienced team that wants to improve your distance, this course is for you. Distance is critical for ALL courses in ALL venues, not just the distance games. Come check out this popular and FUN course!

NOTE: Most of the information in this course is contained within The Agility Playground, so do not purchase both.

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Essential Tricks for Agility Dogs (and Pets too!)

Make your agility journey a breeze with these essential tricks! If you want your dog to line up next to you at the start line, stay until you release him, or you’re just missing some fundamentals, this is the course for you. Learn how to use fun and easy games to build confidence, have more tools for teaching distance, and keep your dog fit. Have FUN with your dog while building your relationship in this short course!

NOTE: Most of the information in this course is contained within The Agility Playground, so do not purchase both.

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Rear End Awareness for Agility Dogs

Calling all agility dog owners! Do you want safer contact performance, more accurate weave poles, and more efficient jumping? Your dog needs rear end awareness! Click the button to learn more about this course that will show you how to teach your dog 12 exercises that will take your dog from “body oblivious” to “self-aware superstar”! Now open for enrollment!

NOTE: Most of the information in this course is contained within The Agility Playground, so do not purchase both.

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Free-Moment Magic

Discover a better way to train that allows you to have a well-behaved dog, start that dog sport you’ve been dying to learn about, finish your title, or just have some sanity in your household, without disrupting your schedule. This course shows you how to take advantage of the “free moments” you didn’t even know you had so you end up with a well-trained companion.

NOTE: Most of the information in this course is contained within The Agility Playground, so do not purchase both.

Free-Moment Magic Course Materials

The Two-Week Trick Title

Relationship * Accomplishment * FUN * Success * Achievement

Inside The Two-Week Trick Title course, you’ll get everything you need to improve your relationship, teach your dog 15 tricks, and earn a novice trick title. If you aren’t interested in a title, this course is still for you! It will put you on the path to having a well-behaved, well-trained pet (and we all want that).

Two Week Trick Title Course Materials

BOOKS AND OTHER PRODUCTS

AGILITY FUNDAMENTALS FOR DISTANCE – NOW IN PAPERBACK

This is THE book you need if you want to improve your dog’s confidence, independence, and ability to work away from you. A great companion to the online courses, this book explains how distance works in a straightforward, understandable way and provides maps and exercises for you to practice with your dog.

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MAXIMUM FUN AGILITY EXERCISES – VOLUME 1

Tired of trying to figure out what to set up for agility practice? What if you could walk out, set up an exercise or course, and have suggestions for handling to practice a variety of skills?

Creating agility courses and exercises is hard.  It’s frustrating to spend time trying to figure out how to set the equipment, so you end up setting the same types of patterns over and over again, boring yourself and your dog.  Maybe you feel like you are wasting time you could be training trying to come up with an arrangement and what to practice on it.

Get your copy of this eBook and you’ll get exercises you and your dog will both enjoy, for less than $1 each!

What people are saying:

“This is a GREAT collection of exercises for a variety of spaces and practicing handling techniques for every level and “style” of our sport!”
Jeff R.

Dog Agility Exercise Book
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MAXIMUM FUN AGILITY EXERCISES – VOLUME 2

Maximum Fun Dog Agility Exercises, Volume 2 is a done-for-you training resource.  Inside, you will find 25 maps that fit spaces from 40′ X 40′ to 70′ X 90′.  Each map is accompanied by a full page of handling suggestions that provide directions for crosses, paths, distance positions, and more.  Learn more by clicking the button below. 

Dog Agility Exercises eBook

MAXIMUM FUN AGILITY EXERCISES – VOLUME 3 – SMALL SPACES EDITION

Maximum Fun Dog Agility Exercises, Volume 3 is a done-for-you training resource.  Inside, you will find 29 maps that fit small spaces from 40′ X 40′ to 40′ X 60′.  Each map is accompanied by a full page of handling suggestions that provide directions for crosses, paths, distance positions, and more.  Learn more by clicking the button below.  Currently on sale at an introductory price!

Dog Agility Exercise eBook

CANINE CONDITIONING TRAINING LOG

Stay organized with your training while you keep your dog healthy, fit, and happy! If you want to work with your dog on conditioning exercises, but you’re not sure which exercises work speed, balance, strength, flexibility, or proprioception, you need this eBook.

Inside the printable eBook, you’ll get:

  • Extensive List of Categorized Conditioning Exercises
  • Fitness Assessments and Scoring
  • Daily Training Log Pages
  • Lined & Unlined Notes Pages

Before starting any exercise program, be sure to consult your veterinarian.

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FREE RESOURCES

12 REAR END AWARENESS EXERCISES FOR AGILITY DOGS

What do contacts, jumps, and weave poles have in common? Your dog needs rear end awareness to navigate them safely, effectively, and at top speed! The exercises shown in this book will give your agility dog a head start on building muscle, proprioception, and flexibility. Reduce the risk of injury and increase your chance for success with these easy exercises!

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FIND TIME TO TRAIN YOUR DOG

Short on time? Struggling to find space in your busy schedule to train your dog? This simple 3-step system will help you uncover training time you didn’t even know you had so you can finally get your dog trained for family obedience or dog sports. Grab the free eBook today!

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ARTICLES GALORE

Click the link to get access to a bunch of articles about life with dogs, agility, tricks, and canine conditioning. They cover a wide variety of topics to help you with your training.

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9 STEPS TO TEACH YOUR DOG ANYTHING

With just 9 steps, you can teach your dog anything! Learn the dog training “secrets” that allow trainers to take their dogs from zero to hero. If you follow the nine steps outlined in this free eBook, you can teach your dog anything you can think up. 

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FREE FACEBOOK GROUP

There is no better way to build a relationship with your dog than to teach tricks! Trick training helps you figure out your dog’s learning style, creates a bond, encourages a “working” relationship, and gives your dog the mental exercise he needs to be happy and healthy.

This group includes tricks, canine conditioning, animal actors, stunt dog, and more, sanctioned by Do More With Your Dog, the top dog trick organization. This group has self-study resources and support from me to get you from new puppy to Trick Dog Grand Champion, Canine Conditioning Champion, Certified Animal Actor, Stunt Dog Champion, and more – all for free!

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