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Agility Fix-It: Contacts and Weave Poles
6 students
Created byJulie Daniels
Last updated 6/2012
English

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Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 1m total length

  • Introduction9:32

    Learn to shape agility skills using a clicker as an event marker, building performance through primary and conditioned reinforcers and varied contexts.

  • Target Training for Downside Contacts7:52
  • Target Training for Upside Contacts3:01
  • Contact Training Using Hoops2:33

    Use a hoop as a contact target to guide the dog through the contact zone, reinforcing with clicks and fading the hoop as the dog checks in.

  • Reinforcing Your Dog's Contact Performance7:30
  • Weave Pole Entry Training10:32

    Learn weave pole entry training with a touch stick to establish stimulus control and classical conditioning, fading the stick as the dog enters correctly from varied positions around the poles.

  • Weave Pole Exit Training6:14
  • Weave Pole Speed Training13:37
  • Credits1:05

Description

This is a step-by-step demonstration of operant training by one of the most successful trainers and competitors in agility. Features an introduction to operant training in addition to instructional segments on using targets for upside and downside contacts, using hoops on contacts, a game for reinforcing contact performance, weave pole entries, weave pole exits, and speed in the weave poles. This tutorial will provide the answers whether you're looking for a plan to retrain a dog with problem poles or contacts or you're looking for a plan to train a new dog from scratch.

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