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The Ribbons that are Never Given Out…
When you're scrolling through your social media, you see a lot of excited dog sport handlers showing off their weekend loot: clean runs, qualifying scores, winning runs, and new titles. There's usually a lot of engagement on the post with likes, loves, and champagne...
Tips for Tracking Your Training
Let's be perfectly honest, there are a lot of different skills one can be training at once time when it comes to dog sports, agility in particular. There are so many pieces to train and put together! I get asked a lot about how to keep track of ALL the things you're...
Are You Treating Your Students Like Dogs? Part 2
A couple of weeks ago, I published the first part of this blog. Check that out here. Let's continue down that list of tips for how to align ourselves with our human learners and have a bigger impact on their progress. 6. Stop Over-Facing Them "Train on courses way...
Are You Treating Your Students Like Dogs? Part 1
How much effort are you putting into forming training plans for your 4-legged clients? Are you putting that same effort into the plans for the 2-legged ones? What can you do to start changing how you teach? Keep reading for my take. 1. Manipulate the Environment This...
Ring Prep without the Ring!
Monday evenings, 5:30pm PT, I do a live chat on an agility-related training topic. You can join the Synergy Dog Sports Training Group on Facebook or subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified of these live chats. Click the buttons below to follow! facebookyoutube
Wrap vs Slice
I have not been writing a lot. I find it difficult to sit down and write when the calendar tells me it's time for a blog post, but I do have so much to say.... about a lot of things. Until I'm able to get my thoughts down on paper, I'm going to share some videos that...
About
Megan Foster
FOUNDER, SYNERGY DOG SPORTS
I have been training in agility nearly my entire life. With seventeen years of experience, I have had the opportunities to work with hundreds of dogs within a large variety of breeds.
I began my agility journey with an American Eskimo and a Westie. In 1999, I began competing with my first Shetland Sheepdog, Buddy. Buddy’s lesson to me was about connection and bond. While running him, I knew that agility was what I was meant to do.
