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What do you guys have for agility at home? I have an homemade aframe, weavepoles jumps table tunnle and some homemade jumpbumps. what do you guys have, Pics?
 
#2 ·
I'm away from home at the moment, and can't post photos with my iPad. But I've posted photos of my course before.

I have quite a few jumps, 12 weaves, (a set of 6 cheap PVC ones that hook together, and a set of 6 Max 200 2x2's) a tire, 2 play tunnels (but plenty big for a Hav to run through) and a small "baby" A-frame, left over from when he WAS a baby.

In some ways it would be fun to have all the contacts, but in another way, it would just be more of a pain to move them every week when the grass needs to get mowed. Fortunately, Kodi is very reliable about his contacts, so we don't really need to practice them at home anyway.

What we DO need to continue working on is handling skills like rear and blind crosses (we have front crosses down cold at this point), working further away from each other, obstacle discrimination and hard entries into the weaves. We can work on all of these without the heavier equipment to lug around.:)
 
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I'm away from home at the moment, and can't post photos with my iPad. But I've posted photos of my course before.

I have quite a few jumps, 12 weaves, (a set of 6 cheap PVC ones that hook together, and a set of 6 Max 200 2x2's) a tire, 2 play tunnels (but plenty big for a Hav to run through) and a small "baby" A-frame, left over from when he WAS a baby.

In some ways it would be fun to have all the contacts, but in another way, it would just be more of a pain to move them every week when the grass needs to get mowed. Fortunately, Kodi is very reliable about his contacts, so we don't really need to practice them at home anyway.

What we DO need to continue working on is handling skills like rear and blind crosses (we have front crosses down cold at this point), working further away from each other, obstacle discrimination and hard entries into the weaves. We can work on all of these without the heavier equipment to lug around.:)
We are having trouble mastering the rear cross. Apolo likes to spin! I have see lots of other dogs do this, so it must be a common thing...I actually fell at class last friday, it was quite funny...Apolo is just getting too fast for me!!! He is hard of hearing, (not deaf, just diminished), so it makes it hard to give him verbal commands. He doesn't hear me, but he watches me like a hawk! Makes it hard sometimes, but on the up side, he is not easily distracted by loud noises and lots of barking!!
 
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I said I'd post a photo of my course when I got home, and here is is. Nothing fancy... but all I need to practice. Kodi has no trouble with his contact obstacles, so having just the one "mini" contact to practice with is plenty. With no more equipment than this, you can practice all the handling skills and discrimination you want.

I have two sets of 6 weaves, which I can either set up separately, as I have here, so I can get extra practice on entries, or I can put together into one set of 12 to practice duration. I will probably replace the cheap E-bay set for another set of Max 200 2x2's this summer. They are expensive, but SO much nicer and easier to move around.

I made all the jumps myself, including the tire. The tunnels came from Toys'R'Us, I think... they are kid tunnels, anyway, two velcroed together, end to end. You need to stake them down so they don't roll, and so that they stay in a bent shape, if that's what you want.

The only other thing I'd really like to have is a pause table.
 

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That's a very nice set up, Karen. I wish I had a larger yard, but all we have is a small front lawn area. The back yard is filled with fruit trees and tomatoes in pots on the patio.
 
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Yes, we are lucky ro have plenty of property... We live on a horse farm and I just use one of the paddocks for Kodi's agility course!
 
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Yeah, I know it's possible to make them yourself, but I'm not very handy with tools. And carpet wouldn't work for me, because my agility equipment stays out all summer. Maybe I can get my boys to build me one for my birthday, but I want a PVC frame, and a rubberized top. It can't be carpet because I don't want something that will stay wet. (also, that's not a surface they'd ever see in competition) But it does have to have some traction... Kodi tends to hit the table at speed, and if it's slippery, he slides off the other side when he puts the brakes on!:pound:
 
#9 ·
I made 6 jumps from PVC and 12 weave poles. My poles are individual so I can add one at a time when training. We're still working on pole accuracy with all 12, but she's starting to get it. I'm using a target at the end of the poles and if she goes all the way through correctly, my son lets her get the treat. If not he picks it up. The first time he did that, she was like, "What the heck?". Too funny!
 
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I have a table, a tire, 2 regulation jumps (my instructor makes them) and 2 small jumps. My big investment was 2 sets of 6 weave poles from max 200 that open for teaching channel method. They were my x mas present last year. I have a teacup see saw, but it's great for learning. I have a pause table, a closed tunnel and a small regular tunnel. I have it all set up in my basement!!!! Would love a dog walk and an A frame!!
 
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That's FANTASTIC that you can have them set up in your basement. Then you can train, no matter what the weather. We put an addition on our house last year, and I'd like to eventually take over the basement under the new part as my training area. Once the kids fly the nest, I'll be able to do that, but until then, we need the space to store furniture that eventually will leave with them.

This summer, since I first posted, I did add a pause table, TDAA teeter, a new, full-size tunnel and a full size chute (closed tunnel). I still haven't got my second set of 6 Max 200 weaves, but although I really WANT them, I DO have 12... i just don't like the cheaper set. Oh, well! One of these days!:)

Does your training center do any run-throughs? Where do you go? I've got to get Kodi out to some different places to practice. If your place does them, it would be fun to meet up sometime and do them together!
 
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she said Oct 1, 15 or 29th are available. Let me know if any of those days work for you. In the mean time, if you could find about about a rental at Master Peace, we can try to hook up there too. It will be very good for Lacey to practice some new places...Thanks
 
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We will have JUST gotten home from vacation on the first, and I need to work. The 15th or the 29th would work. I'll check for dates at MasterPeace once I get home.

Of course, you are welcome to come and play on my course anytime you wnat too, and tha's free.:biggrin1: I don't have a full sized A frame or dogwalk, but I have everything else. (my course is outdoors, though, so weather dependent! ;)
 
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I don't have a backyard, so anything I made has to be easy to tear down. A few PVC jumps, a hack tire (made out of stuff from OSH), and a play tunnel. I got a set of weaves (Affordable Agility Versa-Weaves, which are nice bc they break into 2x2s so I can transport to the park), which was my only real "agility investment." I joke that I'm happy that Murray has "champagne tastes" as he's always liked the contacts, so I didn't have to figure out how to build that! However, I'm trying to work on mostly flatwork when not in class as I'm realizing how much of the foundations I really need to work on!
 
#26 ·
Just built 2 jumps and some weave poles this week then I read a post by Karen to wait until one year to start them on weaves and jumps so..........I have slowed down a little. Huey is 9 months and very agile and I can't wait but will do what is best for him. So much good info here. Mainly a lurker up to now but will get more involed. Thanks everyone.:)
 
#28 ·
Hopefully this weekend I'll actually start to set up some equipment - I have a friend building a teeter for me, since that is one that Halle is having a hard time with. I also have a tire & two ebay tunnels, figuring that since she LOVES going through tunnels if I put the tire at either end she may start to see it as part of a fun exercise.... class is only about 30 minutes away, but I'm going to take a break for the next couple of months, so she'll work at home instead. It seems to be wearing on poor DH - I'm gone at work all week, at class twice a week, then gone weekends - so I thought I'd take some time off of the dog shows & only go out to the class I teach. And hopefully while we're in homebound mode, Halle will go ahead and come in season and we can get THAT over with.
 
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