Foundation Classes
Ready to have fun with your dog learning Agility?
Our Foundation Classes introduce you & your dog to the basics of Dog Agility. Learn about you & your dogs relationship, understanding your dogs behaviour, learn course sequences & obstacles.
Foundation Courses run for 4 weeks, in a one hour Group Class of only 4 students & their dogs. Class is conducted in a securely fenced field with only one dog running at a time.
Reward & connect
Trainer : Karon Hallling
This 4 week course will prepare both you and your dog to start training for Agility. We focus on building a positive relationship between you and your dog . Together you will learn how to get basic behaviours for reward. We then use this understanding to learn some obstacles. This course is suitable for handlers and dogs who are new to dog sports. Prerequisites: Dogs must be over 6 months of age.
Obstacles & Steering
Trainer : Karon Hallling
This 4 week course will introduce handlers and dogs to a number of different agility obstacles. Handlers will learn the basics of steering dogs from one obstacle to another. Prerequisites: Dogs must be over 6 months of age. Dogs should have engagement, a good recall and stay with verbal release.
Patterns & Precision
Trainer : Karon Hallling
This 4 week course will expose handlers and dogs to a variety of small, common sequences designed to increase your ability to work as a team and develop your handling skills. Prerequisites: Dogs must be over 12 months of age and have completed our Obstacles and Steering course.
Skill Classes
2 On 2 Off Contacts
Trainer : Prue McLoynes
The A-Frame, Dog Walk and See Saw are known as contact obstacles. For safety, the dog is required to come in contact with the yellow painted area of the obstacles (the contact zone). At MyDAC, we teach a 2on2off behaviour over the course of 4 weeks. Suitable for beginners as well as retraining.
Weave Poles
Trainer : Karon Hallling
For dogs who haven’t learnt to weave yet. Weaving poles in agility are 12 white poles set up in a row 60cm apart. As the name suggested your dog needs to weave in and out of them. Our method of teaching them is simple and effective. Weaves are amazing to watch when the dog understands them.This 4 week course teaches a behaviour starting on 3 poles. Providing you are willing to do homework between classes, most dogs are weaving 12 poles by the 3rd or 4th week with good entries, exits and some independence.
Forward Drive
Trainer: Karon Hallling
Do you struggle getting your dog to drive ahead on a closing line? Or getting them to take an obstacle ahead of you out of a straight tunnel? Forward commitment on a verbal cue (independent of handler location) is a behaviour. Like any behaviour, it takes repetition and reward to achieve. Join us for a 4 week class where we help you teach your dog to drive forward on a verbal cue.
Strategic Pairs Workshop
Trainer: Alyssa Ablitt
So you’ve entered Strategic Pairs for your next competition or Nationals. You and your partner would love somewhere to train but could do with some help. Maybe you’ve never competed in Strategic Pairs before or perhaps your partner is new to Strategic Pairs or maybe you just want to be able to compete and get the best out of yourself, your partner and your dogs. Join us for a fun workshop and get some tips and hints on running Strategic Pairs