Straight, or almost straight tunnels are speed traps since your dog will accelerate through them. You have to plan carefully where you want to be as your dog enters and exits them. These sequences also are good practice for sending your dog to and calling your dog through tunnels.

The jumble of jumps in this sequence are tightly packed. It will be a challenge to negotiate a path among them and, for instance, get to the right tunnel entrance. Look at the paths and be clear about when and where you need to cross and which way you want to turn your dog. For baby dogs, try the two … Read More

Practice your snooker strategy skills on this Advanced course. The end is flowing so calibrate whether you want to get high points in the opening at the possible expense of finishing the course.

Susan Giordano was watching the AKC Nationals. The Excellent Std course starts with a long, S-shaped sweep of jumps to the weaves. It tripped up a lot of dogs. Here’ s your chance to take a crack at it and see what works for you and your dog.

This portion of an Excellent AKC JWW course per Steve Larson offers great practice on serpentines and threadles. With serpentines, keep moving, and figure out ahead of time where you want to be at the end of the serpentine. That’ll largely dictate which side of the serpentine you want to be on.