Small Back Yard Fun

I found the exercise below online @ http://www.cleanrun.com/ (called April Foolin' by Kathy Keats) , as soon as I saw it I was thrilled because it is an exercise I can do in my backyard and it is a great way for me to practice wraps and timing.

Setup 

Exercise #1 will be harder then you expect if you have a fast dog, staying in front of him on such a long streach might prove to be challenging.  Try it different ways, figure out which way would be the most successful for your team.  Try running all 5 jumps with your dog, try a lead out (don't lead out too far as it might prove to make your dog slower then faster)

For Exercise# 2, break it into steps if you have too, try 1 - 4 first then if successful try the entire 9 steps.  You could also try a lead out past #2 if you want.

Exercise# 3.  Pretty straight forward, but the dummy jump might get you so be aware.

For Exercise #4 you may want to break it into pieces, try 1 - 9 first then if successful try the entire 13 steps.

You could also try a lead out here.

Tonight is agility practice at my house so I thought this would be a great exercise for everyone.  Danielle will be over to work Vito, I think Jamie will come with Chloe and I will also be working the girls.  All the teams are different so it will be interesting to see what works best for each team.  There are 3 more exercises that go with this article but I thought these 4 would prove to be challenging enough for tonights practice.  If you want to see the entire article I have included a link below.  Enjoy.

http://www.cleanrun.com/images/features/04_10_Exercise.pdf