Comments on: Does this Mean 2×2 Training Doesn’t Work?

By: Wendy Johnston

Wendy Johnston — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:16:59 +0000

I think anyone who knocks 2×2 just doesn’t understand it and hasn’t the patience to try. I retrained my 4yo kelpie from the DVD with fantastic results. Again, at home entries from just about anywhere and with whatever distractions you can throw at him. But, it doesn’t always work in a trial depending on the course,distractions of handler (of course) etc! Thanks a million Susan for the DVD and getting me over a massive training ‘block’.

By: Lahni Thompson

Lahni Thompson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:05:55 +0000

I just found a quote by Albert Einstein that reflects what is going on with the critics

Great Spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds

Keep up the teaching Oh Great Spirit or Lucy or even Susan

By: Lyn Brakke

Lyn Brakke — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:42:13 +0000

Great dialogue and BTW love the 2×2 method.

By: Lyn Brakke

Lyn Brakke — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:35:29 +0000

Super dialogue, even though reading it late. I so agree sometimes dogs loose their brains and sometimes people do! Ha ha and sometimes it happens at the sametime!
Susan, love your blogs and teaching style. “I leave each competition loving my dogs more whether we have won or not.”
Lyn

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:55:10 +0000

@Lahni, LOL, funny how that “not skipping steps” helps eh? Thanks for your comment and happy to hear it is going well for you.

By: Lahni Thompson

Lahni Thompson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:51:08 +0000

I love the two by two method and notice that every dog I train with it gets better than the last. As well I think that keeping to criteria and not skipping steps improves outcomes lahni thompson

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:39:36 +0000

Susan, they are awesome weavers. So sometimes it doesn’t quite happen. I was in a position, after an operation, of not being able to do much running around and with the 2 x 2 DVD was able to re-train my 3 yr old Kelpie. The result was fantastic! I have never been able to do the things I did after the re-training. We are going through a patch of ‘don’t know what the weavers are’ in competition. So, back to the start with the 2 x 2 method to help my wonderful, loyal companion. A Million Thanks.

By: Stephanie Burns

Stephanie Burns — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:28:24 +0000

Susan – the 2×2 method is amazing. I waited until my puppy was 15 months old before starting her on weaves. We had a week off of our agility class – so I took the two weeks between classes to teach her to weave. When we returned to class, she was weaving 12 straight poles from hard entrances. I can run past her while she weaves – no baby sitting the dog in the weaves. There were a lot of questions from the other students – 2 by what? Where do you get that DVD? I can’t imagine another method working so well and so quickly.

By: Amanda Albretsen

Amanda Albretsen — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:00:12 +0000

Your 2X2′s are great. I use them all the time!

By: Norm

Norm — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:38:28 +0000

Well I’m currently saving up for some 2x2s and your video, and this hasn’t put me off at all. Of course we make mistakes when we’re trying something new and challenging, when we’re pushing boundaries. Sometimes it pays to play it safe, but other times we need a challenge – and that goes for dogs too.

I’ve been in a similar situation to Encore myself. I’m a yoga teacher. If I get ill or stressed there are people who say that must mean that yoga doesn’t work. Well yoga doesn’t make me not-human or infallible. but it does improve the quality of my life immeasurably. In the same way, Encore’s life is all the richer for having such great training – and a trainer who recognises that perfection is not the ultimate goal.