Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 16
Jean Lavalley Jean and her husband Joel have been involved in agility with their Shelties and BC since 1995. Jean is a small animal veterinarian in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and she and her husband own Its4dogs, an agility equipment/rental business. They travel about 30 weekends a year to agility trials. Visit their website: www.its4dogs.com. These days there are usually course copies available so competitors can have their own copy. Get that copy as soon as it’s available so that you can go over the pattern of the obstacles in your head and on the paper before your walk-through starts. That means you can have the entire time of the first walk-through to actually walk and memorize the flow of the course rather than looking for the numbers. I tend to think of a course in groups or sections. This is especially easy to do on Standard courses. I will remember jump/jump/dogwalk, then another cluster over to the A-frame, then another cluster to the table, and so on in groups of three to five obstacles instead of thinking of them individually. The contacts aren’t always perfectly spaced, but this is just an example. In Jumpers I think in patterns like pinwheels, serpentines, circle to the tunnel, line to the weaves, and so on. By memorizing sections or patterns, you only have 4 or 5 items to remember for a 20-obstacle course, which is less overwhelming than 20. Some courses are harder than others to put into that sort of pattern. The courses I have the hardest time remembering are Jumpers courses that circle back through a tricky section more than once, but not on the same exact path. On those courses I will figure out a way to think of it as a group. I will tell myself the first time through take the inside path, the second time through take the outside path, or if one of the times through goes to the weaves or a tunnel I remember which time the course goes that way and chant it in my head (for example, first pass—jump circle; second pass—turn out to weaves; and so on). My final goal is to be able to picture the whole course in my head, one obstacle at a time, without looking at the paper or the course. If I can do this I won’t have any trouble remembering it at speed. 16 Clean Run | June 07
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Clean Run Magazine - June 2007
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Clean Run Magazine - June 2007
Cover
Contents
Editorializing: Monday Morning Blues
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility...
Backyard Dogs
Trainer’s Forum
On Course with Carole Evans
City Dogs
Spy Kids: Distractions and Discriminations
Running Contacts, Part 1
Training for NADAC Novice Challenges
Power Paws Patterns: Arrow
Backyard Champions
Distance Challenge
Drive It Like You Stole It: The Evolution of a Speed Demon
The Judge’s Debriefing
Cross Training for Your Canine Athlete
Bridge and Target Training for Agility, Part 2
Constructing a Safe and Inexpensive Backyard Practice Area
Master Plan
Review
In Cider
Agility Organization Update
Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Cover
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 2
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Contents
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 4
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Editorializing: Monday Morning Blues
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility...
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 9
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 10
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 11
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 12
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 13
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Trainer’s Forum
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 15
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 16
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 17
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - On Course with Carole Evans
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 19
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 20
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 21
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - City Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 23
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 24
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Spy Kids: Distractions and Discriminations
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 26
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 27
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 28
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 29
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Running Contacts, Part 1
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 31
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 32
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 33
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Training for NADAC Novice Challenges
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 35
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 36
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 37
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Power Paws Patterns: Arrow
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 39
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 40
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 41
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Backyard Champions
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 43
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 44
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 45
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 46
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Distance Challenge
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 48
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 49
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 50
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Drive It Like You Stole It: The Evolution of a Speed Demon
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 52
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 53
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 54
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 55
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - The Judge’s Debriefing
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 57
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Cross Training for Your Canine Athlete
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 59
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 60
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 61
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Bridge and Target Training for Agility, Part 2
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 63
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 64
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 65
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Constructing a Safe and Inexpensive Backyard Practice Area
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 67
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 68
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 69
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Master Plan
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 71
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 72
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Review
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 74
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - In Cider
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 76
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 77
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 78
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Agility Organization Update
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 80
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 81
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - Course Diagram Keys
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 83
Clean Run Magazine - June 2007 - 84
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