instructing

At our club we don't exactly do instructing any more. We all understand the safety issues and get on very well so we just set courses and all make suggestions for each other. It works pretty well, although I suppose we might want experts in from outside from time to time.

I had the job of setting some courses last lesson, so in the age old tradition I nicked some ideas from the internet and the last competition I had been on.

The top diagram shows some exercises. The top part is nicked from NAWS on Sunday, and people got on well with it, finding it flowed nicely. I had particular problems with the weaves, but the dogs were just out of practice.

The bottom bit confused people a bit. It was supposed to teach positioning, and it did. It's just that there was a huge variety of ways people found to run it which worked in varying degrees.

The bottom diagram was a quick alteration to create a course. The a-frame part of it is much simplified, but they get onto it at speed from slightly off centre. Still the people that ran it found it OK.