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 [...]
Moving into the last day of another great skills camp. Super group of people, super group of dogs. Since all dogs and handlers are returning for a continuation of Critical Elements we have been able to take massive steps forward this week. Day [...]
