Stage 2: FUNdamentals, Blueprint & Pre novice
Our teaching at Awesome Paws Agility is based around Susan Garrett H360 Handling system. Developed by Susan Garrett H360 is a verbal based system. It is the system we train and use with our own dogs, being a verbal based system it helps cue paths for our dogs and gives them the information they need to navigate the courses with confidence, clarity & with that comes speed & confidence.
Susan Garrett has an online H360 class room- to receive notification on when registrations open join the waiting list https://my.handling360.com/h360waitlist/
Below is a video done for Susan Garrett's H360 online course- This video is our journey with Katie's dogs from using a handling system we once used to now using Handing 360.
FUNdamentals -
H360 gives our dogs a clarity and confidence through teaching verbal's, these verbal’s enable us to give our dogs early information allowing them to confidently navigate a course. They give us the ability to send n leave, allow us to gaining distance so we can stay in front of our dog, while giving as much early information as possible.
We cover such things as:
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Verbal’s- check, lala, nana, jump, threadles,
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One arm Threadles & Serpentines
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Tight turns
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Handlers Lower body rotation
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Motion helping for both the dog & handler
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Grids including Spider, collection, extension & bend grids
Blueprint
This class is a continuation of our FUNdamentals, we continue to work on cementing those cues and working on skills using 1-2 jumps and cones to build clarity & understanding.
We also start to incorporate
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Tunnel work, entries, exits & Tunnel threadle.
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Basic handling maneuvers like front crosses, blind cross, K turns & footwork
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Travel plank for those who are teaching 2o2o contacts
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Work on creating & building distance
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Skills with motion and connection
Pre Novice
Now our dogs have such a brilliant solid foundation & ground work we can step it up and start to put all our skills and understanding we have learned into real-life mini-sequences that we will come across in any novice course
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Sending to tunnels with the ability to leave to make it to the next part of the course
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Tunnel Threadles
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Pinwheels
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Front cross and start to build on their understanding of rear crosses
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Go- to power on a straight line with gusto.
