Some organizations start with 6 in Novice classes and move up to 12. Numbers of poles may vary from different organizations.
Agility activities such as jumps, tunnels, weave poles, and A-frames can be incorporated into a dog's training routine to improve their speed, coordination, and overall physical fitness.
An agility run, is also known as an agility 'trial'. This requires a dog, a handler, and an open space for the trial. Once you get a command- the handler must send his/her dog over a variety of obstacles, such as: The A-frame, 3 or 4 jumps, the Dog-Walk, the Tire Jump, the Weave Poles, the Schute, the Tunnel, and the Paws Table. The Paws Table and the Weave Poles are the hardest for a dog to learn, the Paws Table is when a dog must sit on it for 5 seconds and have a command to be let of. The Weave Poles are when a dog has 6 poles, 2 feet/24 inches apart, and must weave them. My 2 dogs do agility!
It depends on the level of agility course. Usually it consists of: A-frame, teeter, dogwalk, single bar jumps, tire jump, tunnel, pause table, weave poles. Some courses also have double and triple jumps, and broad jumps.
COMPLETELY depends on the dog. The fastes the weave poles have ever been done (by collie) and has been recorded is like 5.88 ish seconds.
i believe they are when a skier tries to weave in and out of the poles
PVC pipe is the best material for dog agility equipment-making. You can find it for cheap at you local hardware store. You can use wood for the contact obstacles, and just buy a cheap kids' playing tunnel to use as a tunnel. You can also find some agility obstacles for small dogs (chute, jump, tire, and weave poles) at Toys 'R' Us. Have fun!
A dog has to start on the right side
The dog needs to enter the poles with the left shoulder after the first pole. There are multiple ways to teach this, including wire connector chutes, pole chutes, luring, etc. I recommend joining an agility club to teach it correctly, but I think the pole chutes work best. This involves slowly moving the poles closer and closer together until they form a straight line.
Set a line of pole about an inch and a half apart in your yard, then train a dog to weave through them.
There are several types of dog agility courses, including standard agility where dogs navigate obstacles such as jumps, tunnels, weave poles, and A-frames in a specified order. Other types of agility include jumpers courses which focus on jumps and tunnelers courses which involve multiple tunnels. There are also specialized classes such as snooker and gamblers which require strategic thinking from both the dog and handler.
Pole bending is a timed event. There are multiple poles which you weave through twice around.
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