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May 01, 2019
Full Course: Westminster 2019 Finals
You may have watched the Westminster Finals course on TV in February and now you can try it out yourself. Here’s the AKC Standard course that was used in the finals. It’s a fast and fun course with some tricky areas. Teams of all levels and abilities will enjoy running all or parts of this course.
May 15, 2019
Full Course: USDAA Biathlon Jumpers
This week we’re running a USDAA Biathlon Jumpers course. "Biathlons" are the most complex and challenging courses run in USDAA. You can run the entire course or just parts of it to choose your challenges. We will also number a slightly easier alternate version for teams that are not yet comfortable with backsides.
May 29, 2019
USDAA Gamblers Course
This week we have a USDAA Advanced Gamblers course designed by Janet Gauntt. You get to design your own opening and then test your distance skills in the closing. Here's a link that explains the rules of the game: https://www.usdaa.com/article.cfm?newsID=2848
May 22, 2019
Full Course: USDAA Advanced Snooker
This week we are running an Advanced Snooker course. If you’re not familiar with Snooker, here’s a link to an article from Clean Run that explains the rules. http://www.usdaa.com/binary/files/SnookerHanson.pdf
Snooker allows you to design your own course to best suit your canine partner's strengths and to see how many points you can accumulate in the opening. This course uses jumps, tunnels and the A-Frame.
June 05, 2019
Tunnel/A-frame Discriminations
Here's a portion of a CPE Standard course that provides some practice in tunnel/A-frame discrimination. You will have a chance to practice which cues work best for you and your dog and how you can set the dog's line for the correct obstacle, despite the A-frame and 20' tunnel obstructing the handler's path.