Tag: engagement

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

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 ! 🙂

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“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 ❤️

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5 MINUTE TRAINING SESSION W/ ZAE: Working & Strengthening Foundation Skills

by pyrwild, posted in training articles & videos

 

This is a 5 minute raw video with brief comments about the training.  This training session was 5 minutes total–including playing and rewarding dog.  The session wasn’t necessarily planned; I just wanted to share a raw recording of what an average training session with my dogs looks like.  Short and productive.  Zae practiced different foundation skills and through rewarding skills were reinforced and strengthened.  Throughout the session Zae practiced a variety of skills and stayed engaged.  By practicing and enforcing these skills as a the bulk of my training the skills in turn stay strong.  For example, things like the teeter or wraps that I like to almost constantly reward–especially in sequence when they are really beautiful/what I am looking for.  A motto of mine is reward what you want to see more of.  Jackpot it when it’s especially perfect and amazing !! 🙂

All the skills in this video, and the strong working relationship I have with Zae comes through my every day training and quick practice of skills like this.  The basis of most of these every day exercises I do with my dog is available in my Skills and Relationship Building online course.