This week, it was too hot to go outside so we didn't do agility (over 100F) but worked indoors on the jumps. I realized that Dora needs to do a jump to compete in Rally Advanced next month! So I was jumping her and an agility friend came in and told me I need to teach Dora how to jump correctly. He said that she doesnt know how to jump right? Basically she jumps all the jumps like she is doing a long jump.
I would imagine a lot of people have issues with this and here were some great recommendations from my havsreadsigns yahoo group:
1. Julie Daniel's agility book teaches jumps
2. www.flyingdogpress.com
There are tons of articles and an entire series on jumping. It starts off with the article titled "Why Flufy can't go Hup"
3. online subscription to clean run magazine
www.agilityaction.com
After looking at a few online articles and recommendations, I really liekd the idea of training the dog to jump. That sounds daunting at first (good luck trying to grab Dora and teaching her to go over a jump). However let her teach herself. Placing a few jumps only about 18 inches apart from each other so she has to go up and over, up and over, up and over. She will get a muscle memory from doing this and teach herself.
We still have to work on this as this week was a family vacation up to Michigan with the dogs!
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