foundation skills Archives

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

What Makes PYRWILD Training Great

29 July 20181 May 2022 by pyrwild, posted in online classes, training

My goal as a trainer is not to overwhelm students, throw a bunch of sequences or crazy skills at them but to work and fine-tune teams to be their best. I work with each student and their dog as the individual team they are at the level they are at or aspire to be.

I get to know each student and their dogs individually and truly want to help each and everyone of my students to achieve their goals. I understand that each dog learns differently and so does each human. My aim is to help each student be successful.

With a degree in philosophy, I have a very analytical mind and a natural eye for detail. I am proud to offer reward-based training, well-rounded skills & analytical feedback to my students. With an eye for detail, I am able to pinpoint little details and ultimately shape towards success. In my online course content includes simple, efficient videos and detailed write ups to go along with them.

PYRWILD students get:

Feedback & guidance in training
Detailed and analytical information
Judgement free help and support
Personable connection
The aid of years of experience and knowledge
Education for the Human, Training for the Dog

Student Testimonials

“I have worked w/ lots of trainers in the last 25 years & shall continue to to visit the ones I like, but I LOVE how you break it down incrementally; i.e. getting correctly from Point A to Point B & patiently teach how to do that. It is SO cool how many mistakes you can see just between say like 2 or 3 jumps ! I am not naturally an “incremental” “attention to detail” person & I believe it is the key to our success.”

“…turns around the problems we were having and enabled us to win the Rescue Agility Finals. Although we are in completely different time zones Jessica replies within hours and is always ready to explain and explain again to enable us to fully understand (which is not always easy online as I have found out with previous instructors).”

“In preparation for EOJ this year with both of my dogs I have been taking an online class from Jessica. I feel more confident and can feel the connection between my dogs and I while running. Scrat has improved so much under her training/ mentoring. She has also gotten Shadows confidence and speed up at 16″ with the drills she suggests.”

“Super nice training with fast feedback in our online class! She really helped ous with our problem. We would go to a Class again”

“Jesi helped us to completely retrain our weaves during the summer break. The training plans were detailed but flexible and Jesi is very prompt with her feedback and is a lovely positive person to have on your team. Super happy with the improvements we have made. Highly recommend PyrWild!”

“A good teacher is hard to find; a nice teacher is also hard to find; and your words of wisdom with (my dog) are amazing. I would not think of any other teacher..”

“(My dog) and I are looking forward to learning more. You’re a fantastic instructor. Didn’t think I’d ever compete with (my dog). It was more of just something to keep her occupied. But she’s a fantastic dog. I’m the one holding her back.”

I offer various Online Classes, Personalized Coaching, Private Lessons and Classes in Eugene, OR

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

8 July 2017 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.

PYRWILD’S FIRST ONLINE CLASS !

10 January 2017 by pyrwild, posted in Uncategorized

I am excited to announce:

Winter Games Class

This is an informal class open to any skill level and is perfect for winter training indoors and keeping your dog mentally exercised. This builds on supplemental skills and engagement which can be incorporated and beneficial to current and future trainings. These Winter Games will build on different foundation skills and strengthen the bond for both dogs and owners. The tricks and games in this course are simple and perfect for working with the dogs bowl of food during their meal times–quick, easy and fun. 🙂 This course is based upon the food bowl games I play with my dogs regularly during winter when it is too cold to go outside.

For more information and to sign up click here

This first course will begin Jan 17th 🙂 See you in class !

Registration open now for the next session of this course beginning March 1st 🙂