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ToggleDog
Joined: 06 May 2007
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Location: Cirencester England
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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: Does Disc help with Agility?? |
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Alex with JoJo made an interesting observation on Sunday. She told us that JoJo normally had lots of poles down in agility, its her one weak point, everthing else is fine. After a Disc Session on Friday, where JoJo was obviously tracking the disc, she had no poles down on Sat. or Sun 
Is she learning to look up while jumping? On reflection, we realised that Pole crasher Beano has taken much fewer down as well!! Have we discovered a new training aid?  Has anyone else noticed changes in their dogs approach to say, Agility or Flyball? We'd be very interested to hear.... |
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katie
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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Location: Huddersfield, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Oooh that is really interesting!
I haven't noticed it with Poppy. In fact, being completely honest, in the 3 years Poppy has been competing she has only ever knocked one pole (and that was because I sat her way too close to the first jump)  She's a very clean jumper.
Now you mention it though, Jet used to knock a few poles in agility, after she started flyball. Now she rarely knocks them and only had one all weekend.
Wow, that's amazing news for JoJo! She is so fast, maybe discbusters has been the cure for pole knocking. |
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Shaun
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ribena is still knocking poles as haphazardly as usual.  |
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Iluvmybc
Joined: 05 May 2007
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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umm... that is interesting. My BC, Rev competes in disc, agility and flyball. He still knocks bars occasionally in agility but he flattens when he jumps and he knocks I think from anticipation. He cues off my body easily so if he thinks , from a slight shoulder movement that I am going to turn, then he slices the turn and knocks a bar down. On a straight line of jumps he doesn't knock them down.
What I wonder is how you would describe the jumping styles of the dogs that knock down poles? Do they drag their back feet, is that why they knock bars? Disc could help or fix some of that, if they jump will all 4 paws off the ground to catch a disc.
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