Master Agility Performance with success
Relationship - Behavior - Performance
Relationship, Behavior, and Performance provide the 3 underlying principles of all training within any Bullseye Performance training program. Bullseye Performance training programs are designed for you to achieve success in training and optimal performance in Dog Agility, regardless of skill level. These programs provide the skills you require and a fun and healthy relationship for you and your canine partners.
Introductory Program
This Introductory program is designed to provide the training and performance skills necessary for all ongoing training in the MAP with Success program. It is designed such that skills taught each weekend are cumulative in nature, including material in the Friday lectures.
It is required that you complete each of the three weekend sessions in the Introductory MAP program (or equivalent in private sessions) in order to participate in the ongoing training sessions.
It is possible to take the first session alone, or the first 2 sessions in sequence only, but in order to be fair to participants in the program, it is not possible to skip a weekend and go straight to subsequent weekend sessions.
It is possible to make up some components in private sessions where necessary for some circumstances, or at a subsequent offering of this program. Please contact Richard Ford directly to discuss any such requirements, or requests.
MAP Summary
Shaping Canine Behavior – The Foundation of Training
Friday Night Lecture:
- Shaping Canine Behavior: The Foundation of Training
Saturday and Sunday Workshops
- Defining and Shaping Agility Behavior, Shaping Obstacle Performance
- Proofing Obstacle Performance, Adding Movement
- Defining Agility Turns, Agility Handling and Shaping Turns
- Using Distance in Agility, Adding Distance through Shaping
The Thinking Dog – Training for Success
Friday Night Lecture:
- The Thinking Dog – Training for Success
Saturday and Sunday Workshops
- Developing Communication with Your Dog and Communicating Handling Queues in Dog Agility
- Controlling Focus and Attention of your Dog and Working with Handler and Obstacle Focus on Course
- Understanding the Handler and Dog Connection Required for Performance, Staying Connected with Your Dog While Training
- Understanding Natural and Trained Handling Queues and the Value of Consistency
- Dealing with Team Handling Challenges on Course
Canine Cognitive Health: Relationship – Behavior – Performance
Friday Night Lecture:
- Canine Cognitive Health: Relationship – Behavior – Performance
Saturday and Sunday Workshops
- Managing your Environment in Order to Develop Trust and Confidence in Your Dog
- Knowing Your Dog and Training at Their Threshold of Capability
- Manipulating Stress and Excitement; Pushing the Edge of Success
- Building Speed, Accuracy, Drive and Persistence in Training and Performance
- Training for Success in Performance by Practicing Performance in Training
- Making Training more like Performance
- Creating a System of Your Own; More than just a Handling System
- Preparing Yourself and Your Dog for Performance