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to your cues. To get into your zone, there should be minimal hesitation
Lynne Stephens between your cues and your dog's performing the behavior.
If your dog lacks an immediate response, that can trigger a break in your
focus, Member of the British Agility World Cup team in 2003 and 2004,
contender in most causing you to get bumped from the zone. Training is
integrally connected major British finals and this year's USDAA Grand Prix
semifinals, Lynne now co- to being in the zone. If your dog isn't trained
extremely well, being in the owns DogLogic Training in Statesville, North
Carolina. Visit www.doglogictraining. zone is challenging to maintain. com
or contact her by email: info@doglogictraining.com. Finally, your handling
and being in the zone are linked. If your handling you have added another
positive Train Thoroughly: You need to system is not clear to your dog or
one or more handling moves look to your mental game. know you have gone
into the ring similar, you may find that being in the zone is not
consistently possible. thoroughly prepared for whatever Make Speed Your
Friend: If I need Just as it is important to make sure that verbal cues
don't sound similar challenges the courses are going to make a tight
deadline or get to each other, your handling cues must be distinct.
Evaluate whether to present. If you know you have somewhere in a hurry, I
usually find your handling system clearly signals to your dog how to
complete all the done your homework, you won't myself achieving and
maintaining common agility obstacle patterns. Unclear handling makes it
impossible be worried about what questions focus far more successfully
than for your dog to respond accurately or immediately which can
negatively are on the test paper. when meandering around with affect your
reaching the zone. too much time on my hands. When Tr u s t Your Training:
Compete running in agility I try to use the Agility is a sport that
presents handlers with a tremendous challenge like you train and train
like you same analogy. If I am out there, of multitasking. To be in the
zone, you must always be aware of the compete, is often heard but less
running my hardest and going for obstacles, present cues accurately in a
timely manner, know the course, often seen. Get into this good my best
time, I don't give myself be aware of the path you want the dog to take,
know where the dog is in habit from your very first time in the
opportunity to wander out of relation to the desired path, and know where
you are in relation to the the ring. Once you are in the ring, the zone.
These runs are usually obstacles, the dog, and the course. It takes years
for handlers to master it is time to handle the course the far more
successful than those in all these tasks well enough simultaneously to
become fully present and way it should be handled not the which I am
carefully trying to just consistently in the zone. If you are in the zone
for two to three obstacles way you think is safest because go clear for
the Q. at a time, try to set process goals for yourself, while gradually
raising you are at a trial . Go out and do the criteria in small
increments to ensure that you will have success what you know you can do.
If it Bring Something Positive Back most of the time. Have fun! That is
what this sport is all about. It isn't does not work in the ring, you have
from Every Run: No one gets it the outcome that matters; it is the fun you
had getting there. Enjoy your learned something. Training can right every
time. When it goes be adjusted. When it does work, journey to the zone!
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