Agility for Beginners

Training Provided by Penang Dog Agility Association The AGILITY SPORT in Malaysia started around 2000. It is a team effort- a handler directs his dog to negotiate a set of obstacles from 14 to 20 units in a numbered course. It can be done by any breed of dog- pure breed or mixed breed. Training your dog to perform the obstacles in the correct order and within a prescribed time takes a lot of hard work. It requires a lot of patience from the handler and it can take years to perfect the sport. If you are interested to participate in this sport and gain personal recognition for you and your dog, and don't know where to begin, come speak to the PAAPP group of people. We don't claim to be EXPERT instructors, but we can share training methods with you. The Agility for Beginners Program is a 12 weeks program. Once a week for one hour on a Sunday. The perequisite for this program is the dog must be at least 12 months old and have gone through basic obedience training. The dog must be healthy. Agility training is strenous for the handler and the dog, so be preapred to keep yourself fit. Once you sign up, you will be guided by an Instructor who has trained and competed his/ her dog through competitive agility. The course is fun but requires the owner-dog teams to be consistent and persistent. This program do not have a start date. You just register, pay the training fees and keep track of the 12 classes. The deliverable- you and your dog will have the skills to enter the lowest class of agility competition- Basic Jumpers. The Basic Jumpers course consist of 14-16 obstacles- jumps and tunnels only.

Agility for Beginners Training Program Details 1. learn to jump 1 hurdle
2. learn to jump 2 hurdles
3. learn to jump 2 hurdles with handling skills from left, right, front and back
4. learn to do the tyre jump
5. learn to do 2 hurdles and tyre jump in a row
6. learn to do 2 hurdles and tyre jump in a semi-cirlce
7. learn to do 5 jumps in a row
8. learn to do 10 jumps in a curve
9. learn to do the tunnels- closed and open
10. learn to do 14 obstacles with turns
11 handling skills for owner to handle dog from left, right, front and back.
12. Start and end of course- how to set the dog.

(All exercises are done with the dog and handler/ owner)

About The Training Provider: Penang Dog Agility Association