Poor Buzzy, too polite for his own good. He wouldn't want to disturb anyone or anything in life. So when DeCaff decided she was going to take over his bed this morning, Buzzy happily accepted he was going to have his morning snooze in hers. [...]
As many of you know I am pretty big into continuing education. I am constantly enrolled in some course trying to learn something. At this time of year I end up having more time to digest some of this great information. One of the coaching groups [...]
Yesterday I finished the last of 4 days teaching foundation handling workshops. A great group of enthusiastic students with a varied range of experience. Some handlers brand new to agility while others were coming back for a refresher after a year or so of trialing [...]
Well my last agility event for 2010 has been put to bed. Encore and I had the honour of representing Canada at the American Kennel Club Invitational last weekend. The annual event has 5 of the highest pointed dogs of each breed that competed in [...]
This is going to be a random collection of thoughts about Education. My series in my newsletter entitle "The Good Student" has, a bit like, Ruff Love, gotten some misinterpretations that I want to clear up. I do not condone abusive teachers or instructors that [...]
Tomorrow I will be sending out the third instalment in my series “On Being a Good Student”. This is going out to all of you that are subscribers to my newsletter (if you are not a subscriber you can sign up on the right hand [...]
Over the weekend John Cullen and I did our first webinar for our group of students that signed up for Pre-Competition Routine course. This first webinar was on Visualization. We had a lot of really excellent questions posted to our members area. Some were by [...]
Many years ago during my first trip to New Zealand I cracked up when I heard the handlers refer to a set of weave poles as the "weavers". The concept stuck with me and both Encore and Feature's weave cue for the weave poles is "w-e-a-v-e-r-s!". [...]
Just in case you missed this very informative interview, I thought I would share. Enjoy! Today I am grateful for the enthusiastic dog trainers here in Australia.
Tony Robbins talks about being present for your spouse or kids. This is something I am guilty of with John, I know I need to work on it. You know what I mean. You are hammering away at the computer and your mate is trying [...]
Full disclosure today folks. You get to see vintage video of me 40 pounds overweight, in desperate need of a haircut and the most hideous looking, over sized, shocking blue outfit I have ever owned. I bet you can't wait eh? John Cullen's "Pre Competition [...]
I went to a meeting in Toronto earlier this week, put on by two of Tony Robbins coaches. One of them had this great line; "Coaches reveal your blind spots, so you can get different results than you have gotten in the past." The coaches [...]
