dog agility Archives

Introducing the PYRWILD Arena

14 August 201914 August 2019 by pyrwild, posted in training, updates

So excited to share that PYRWILD now has its very own arena with a wonderful sand surface located 10 miles west of Eugene.

lane county eugene agility training arena

Lots of hard work and love has gone into getting this arena set up and ready to go for my super students. A 10 year dream come true. ❤️

Previous classes will continue. Although, some class times have shifted.

⚠️NEW CLASSES

Starting the 19th of Aug

Sport Puppy Class 🐶

Monday 4pm-5pm (8 weeks long)

A fun class to build your puppies thinking skills, confidence, body awareness and engagement while also building foundation skills to set the pups up for a successful sport future.

Handler Fitness Class 🏃🏻‍♀️

Monday 6:45pm-7:15pm (6 weeks long)

This will be a fun, laidback class that works on different handler skills that will set up handler’s for success in agility. Building sprint stamina, develop quick twitch muscles, improving foot work (two step front crosses- can you do it ?) and human warmups and stretches for agility !! We warm up our dogs before they run- but us handlers are athletes, too !

🎓UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Teeter Tune-Ups – Aug 24th 📐

AM Teeter Foundations, Skill & Confidence Building 10am-12:30pm

OK for dogs 8 months+ and dogs who could improve their teeter performance or dogs just learning the teeter.

PM Advanced Teeter Skills 1pm-3:30pm

For dogs who have a teeter and want to work more advanced skills. Independence, lateral teeters, impulse control and other fun teeter challenges.

Startline Skills – Aug 25th 🤓

AM Startline Foundations 10am-12:30

This workshop is great for dogs just beginning or dogs who have issues with startlines. We will build the pieces for the dogs startline behavior and stay while making it a fun game for the dog and also building their anticipation for the release.

PM Startline Scenarios 1pm-3:30pm

For dogs who have a startline and dogs that are or will be competing. Will work through different startline scenarios that are often seen at trials and handling maneuvers to navigate them. We often forget this part of training that will set the dog up for success for when you do get to a trial.

Please Contact Me to register upcoming workshops or inquire about classes 🐾

A PYRWILD Update

15 April 201914 August 2019 by pyrwild, posted in photos, training, trial results, updates

A lot of (EXCITING) stuff has happened in the last couple months.

We relocated to Eugene, OR and now live in a lovely cottage in the trees.

I am also now teaching agility full-time @ Infinity Dog Sports and am over the moon over this opportunity. I taught my first workshop last month and it was a huge success, too. I feel so in my element teaching and am quite honored to be an instructor. The community here has been so welcoming and kind. It truly is a dream come true.

eugene oregon indoor agility arena pyrwild workshop education

My life has 100% ‘gone to the dogs’ and I wouldn’t change a thing. I look forward to all the opportunities that will continue to come my way and all that PYRWILD education grows.

Mayhem had a super time competing last month @ the Eugene trial. He earned a Q/3rd in JWW saturday and a QQ with two first places sunday. He’s now 5 QQ’s away from his championship. I am looking forward to competing with him three days coming up this weekend again at Eugene. We’re both having lots of fun- and that’s the key and most important part to me. He’s such an incredible little dog.

I ended up pulling Zae’s World Team Tryout entry after his last competition some weekends ago. His confidence has been lacking in the trial environment and I wouldn’t want to go to a big event like that unless we could truly push and do our best. I will continue working to rebuild his confidence and focus at trials along with working on my own mental game at competitions. We’ll show ’em what we’ve got next year. 🙂

Because, without a doubt, the skills are there. The teamwork is there. The love for playing the game together is there.

Here are some extreme weave scenarios I practiced with the skipskap last week. He’s such a superstar and always surprises me with his brilliant success. And yes, these were our ‘first tries’. 🙂

We’re still settling in but enjoying living in Eugene ! The dogs and I are quite happy to be an hour from the coast. More photos from our beach adventures on Flickr.

The NEXT Teeter Tune-Ups will run the month of June – sign up early to secure your spot ! 🌟

I also offer private & individualized classrooms for those looking for coaching and instruction remotely 🤓🐾 Please Email to set up something up

Building engagement and confidence by training beyond the agility field – an Aginotes Interview

17 March 2019 by pyrwild, posted in training articles & videos

I was interviewed by AgiNotes, a cool and useful app created for tracking training and competition results. See an excerpt and find a link to the full article below ! 🙂

“For engagement, reward the little things and add some energy yourself into your training and play. The biggest tip for this is to have fun! Set your dog up for success and understanding. I think practicing skills so the dog is confident and you are confident is important- making training, agility and life in general more fun for both the dog and handler.”

Check out the full interview @ AgiNotes.com ❤️

My next Teeter Tune-Ups will run the whole month of June – register here

the next Teeter Tune-Ups begins in June

15 March 201915 March 2019 by pyrwild, posted in online classes

The time has come to offer another Teeter Tune-Ups, running in June ! TTT is an online workshop designed to give you the tools to tune-up your dogs teeter performance. This course has benefitted, and been enjoyed by many students from different countries across the world.

Registration is open now.

For more information and to register please follow the link below

MINI, ONLINE WORKSHOP: Teeter Tune-Ups