At OneMind Dogs, we break our handling techniques down into 7 core handling elements. Dogs show us every day that these are the core elements they naturally understand. From their perspective, these elements make your communication clear and easy to follow on the agility course.
Agility handling techniques
OneMind Dogs handling techniques are based on dog’s natural behavior — which means your dog will understand them from day one.
Training Dog Agility by Yourself 一 How to Get Started
Our expert dog trainers believe in making training accessible for EVERYONE! That means giving you the power to start dog agility training right where you are. From your backyard to the local park, our Foundation for Agility program is designed for all dogs, even puppies. You don’t need any equipment to start building that magical connection with your canine companion today!
Agility handling techniques – why are options important?
There are over 30 OneMind Dogs handling techniques that will allow you to create a diverse agility toolbox. Depending on your style, you may use some of the same tools very often, and other tools only get pulled out occasionally. Having a diverse toolbox with many options means that you can handle any course, no matter what restrictions you might be working with.
Handle Lines, Not Obstacles
When the world of thinking agility courses in lines opens up to you, you forget the handling of individual obstacles for good.
Leading leg: how do dogs turn?
About 87-90% of humans are right-handed. But what about our dogs – do they have a dominant paw? Read this excerpt from a Premium article on the lead leg, written by our leading Coach and method creator, Janita Leinonen.
Backyard Training Challenge with Anna Eifert
Our next training challenge is courtesy of OneMind Dogs Coach Anna Eifert. Anna will walk you through her fun garden challenge in her below article. Anna’s Garden Challenge I'm very grateful for having enough space in our garden, and thanks to the beautiful warm...
Discrimination Handling Challenge
OneMind Dogs Coach Niki Dragerecently challenged you to test your dog’s ability to discriminate between two different obstacles using a verbal. In the next challenge Niki will have you use your body language and handle around some “trapstacles” on a small set up of...
Backyard Training Challenge – Contact vs Tunnel
Now that many of you are spending more time at home with your dogs, we wanted to give you some ideas for fun home training tips and challenges to try! In this first challenge OneMind Dogs Coach Niki Drage is showing you a little Contacts vs Tunnel challenge....
Mikko’s Christmas Tree is made out of agility tunnels
Leading OneMind Dogs Coach Mikko Aaltonen was super happy to have a set of new tunnels arrive at the world’s most northern OneMind Dogs Arena in time for Christmas. So, he decided to create a fabulous Christmas Tree exercise out of them! Mikko has excellent...
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