by Megan Foster | Sep 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Online agility classes and virtual trialing at home does require you to set up your own courses. If your setup isn’t built closely enough to how it is designed, you might not be practicing what your instructor wants you to be practicing, and for trials, if the course...
by Megan Foster | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
You go to agility class, you walk the course, you make your plan, you run the course, and the instructor gives you some feedback on what you could change, so you run the course again with their suggested changes, and it works! Yay! What did you learn? Did you learn...
by Megan Foster | Jul 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently had a Facebook Live session where I gave advice on splitting your training, and answered questions about my processes. You can view that chat here. My first piece of advice was to seek out other methods of training the same skills or obstacle. Not to change...
by Megan Foster | Jun 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Here's a lecture I wrote for my FDSA Class EL140 Mindset Training for Dog Sports, but I thought it would make a great blog post for those of trying really hard to build up new habits and behaviors for ourselves as trainers, teachers, and competitor. You have to give...
by Megan Foster | May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Time spent at a training project isn’t in direct correlation with progress.
I hear it from clients all of the time: “I’ve been doing this since he was a puppy, he should know this!” or, “I’ve been doing this for many months, he should know this by now!”, or something...
by Megan Foster | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you struggle with record keeping or coming up with plans, I suggest breaking the behavior into very small pieces and focusing on one piece at a time, every time you train, for one month. In one month, the behavior will become a habit, making it that much easier to...
