Go-Get-’Em Agility Podcast

Episode 51: UKI West Coast Open 2024  **  Margaret and Emma discuss their adventure attending the UKI West Coast Open in Paso Robles, California UKI Agility: https://ukagilityinternational.com/ West Coast Open information: https://ukagilityinternational.com/events/uki-west-coast-open/west-coast-open-2024-documents

Episode 50: Zanee Agility Camp 2024 **  Six instructors over 3 days at Zanee Agility Camp, located at Run Wild Dog Sports Center, hosted by Jordan Biggs and Hana Spitz Ashley Deacon Stefanie Rainer Taner Dogan Shauna Oliver Grace Heck Casey Keller

Episode 49: JOAWC - 2024 Junior Open Agility World Championships   ** Listen to Emma and Margaret talk about the Junior Team USA. Please share with any junior agility competitor families. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6WcUJRIr3k 2024 JOAWC Website:  https://joawc2024agility.be/ AKC JOAWC Information: https://www.akc.org/sports/agility/events/junior-open-agility-world-championship/

Episode 48: Walking an Agility Course  ** 25 years of walking courses, the strategies I've learned, ways that I help decide on side changes, location and memorization tactics to help run my desired walk through plan.

Episode 47: Using Targets in Agility Training   ** Using target plates, or preplaced rewards, in agility can be very powerful. Learn about the different target structures that Margaret and Emma use to train their dogs. Two Target Jump Training: Short versions Part 1: https://youtu.be/qDHgYJN-aps Part 2: https://youtu.be/0Yw-MIWTyWQ Distance training using one target: https://youtube.com/shorts/9gh...

Episode 46: Top 5 Training Skills for Dogs and Handlers  ** Margaret and Emma discuss their top 5 training skills for dogs and handlers, and how they help with agility.  If only able to train 5 things for agility, what would they be?? Two Target Game: https://youtu.be/qDHgYJN-aps Hand Position Matters: https://youtu.be/IZ6ViGgKBH0 Emma's Rear Cross Flip Game: https://youtu.be/EF0caU-YbHE

Episode 45: Introducing Teeter Training in New Locations Margaret discusses with Emma what she learned from Eli about training a teeter on her own, how to help your dog develop the skills to handle the teeter at speed and using this information to introduce new teeters, in new locations to your dog in preparation for the trial environment. An agility dog benefits greatly from two important teeter...

Episode 44: Eli's First Trial - What Really Happened Behind the Scenes  ** We did a thing, we trialed together. Listen to Margaret recount the day of Eli's first AKC agility trial to Emma. 

Episode 43: Agility is Confusing ** Join Margaret as she talks about all the different ways that agility can be confusing, but at the heart of it all, listen to your dog and keep their confidence up!

Episode 42: Let's Stress About Stress  ** Unqualified to really help you, listen to Margaret and Emma's strategies for dealing with stress in agility.

Episode 41: Contacts, I Mean Weave Poles  ** 12/7/2001 Margaret wrote the follow during a Susan Garrett seminar, "If you need to help your dog w/ contacts - your dog doesn't know contacts." Follow along as Margaret and Emma discuss this same principle with regards weave poles and suggestions on how to go about helping your dog know weave poles.

Episode 40: 2024 Goals in Agility ** Join Margaret as she talks you through building or not building agility goals for 2024. Tiny book, 79 pages. On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals by Turid Rugass

Episode 39:Book Discussion -Developing Handling Skills by Linda Mecklenburg   ** Listen in with Margaret and Emma as we discuss what Margaret thinks are the main threads throughout Linda Mecklenburg's book "Developing Handling Skills" Ebook: https://www.cleanrun.com/product/developing_handling_skills_e_book/index.cfm Portion of the in-depth Zigzag Exercise available in the April 2009 Clean Run mag...

Episode 38: Dog Sports Derby ** Apologies right off the start line, I keep referencing the name of the sports arena as Derby Dog Sports, when in fact, it is called Dog Sports Derby. https://www.facebook.com/dogsportsderby    or https://dogsportsderby.com/ Lovely facility and incredible day of agility, dogs and handlers alike were on top form.

Episode 37: Reactivity - Eli Part 2  **Listen in as I explain how I have helped Eli to work through his reactivity triggers and where we are at. Pattern Games: Tracy Skelnar https://braincampflix.com/ http://www.controlunleashed.net/about.html

Episode 36: Online versus In Person Training ** Enjoy (or don't) our opinion on online versus in person training.

Episode 35: Winter Training **Margaret and Emma discuss training they do in the house during the winter months. Apologies, we do end up referring to visual drawings of some of our one jump work explanations. You can see the drawings via YouTube: 

Episode 34: Reactivity in Agility **Listen to Margaret and Emma talk about Eli's SEC on and off the agility course, training to help prevent, why we think it developed and more. Video of Eli going after Doberman - you can't see it, but you'll hear it. https://youtu.be/Lh3xhVfT5jo Tracy Sklenar and Power Patterns: https://braincampflix.com/

Episode 33: Ambition  **Having ambition, when to pull back on it, when to push for it, all the while keeping your dog's confidence up. Cavaletti Poles Information by Kristin Wolter - https://activ8k9.com/workshop-and-seminar-menu/

Episode 32: AKC League Discussion with Penny Leigh- League Director **Contact information for AKC League: Email: AgilityLeague@akc.org AKC Agility League Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/akcagilityleague/ League on AKC Website: https://www.akc.org/akc-agility-league/

Episode 31: Agility Fun Runs, Play Days, Trial like Practice ** Margaret and Emma discuss how to use your very first Fun Run effectively to assess where your dog is at with their attention, impulse control and more. 

Episode 30: AKC Agility League **Listen to Margaret, Emma and special guest, Erin Lynch talk about AKC's Agility League.

Episode 29: Not Addressing the Training Gap ** Are you bypassing a training gap by going on when a mistake happens? Should you go on? Should you train the dog skill more? Is it a handler skill? When your dog makes a mistake on course, they are giving you information, what you do with it makes the difference between repeating it or not.

Episode 28: Fast and the Furriest Blind Cross ** Freeway driving and the blind cross, how are they similar? Find out as Margaret and Emma talk about cars and dog agility.

Episode 27: Around the Clock ** Training your agility dog all the way around the clock is a great way to train, with a few exceptions. Example of around the clock training: https://youtube.com/shorts/CIkbsbG3iyk Another variation of around the clock training: https://youtu.be/cn1uzfx1IxQ