Distance Handling in Action By Kristy Netzer © VICTOR STEEL PHOTOGRAPHY, INC. Figure 1 shows one of the courses for the 2016 USDAA TitleMania event. It was designed by Rafael Quinones. As you'll be able to see, I was able to save a lot of steps by handling the course using my distance skills. Let's look at my distance handling choices. 10 1 20 30 40 50 60 2 110 18 100 I don't need to move much for the first nine obstacles as you can see in Figure 2. I take a lead-out between jumps #3 and #4 and recall my dog. To line up my dog nicely for jump #5, I indicate a rear cross at #4. As I send her away to #5, I tell her "weave." 20 19 110 70 Obstacles #1-#9 100 5 17 90 90 80 6 80 16 5 6 70 70 4 RC 4 60 60 8 3 9 50 50 7 40 15 3 30 20 30 20 11 T 10 20 30 2 1 2 10 14 48 1 12 13 10 40 40 USDAA Masters/PIII/Veterans TitleMania Standard Round 1 10 June 17, 2016 Judge: Rafael Quinones 50 60 70 Clean Run | April 17