Oh you have a point that it'd probably get frustrating if I let someone else run my dog regularily or at competitions. But that's not what I meant.... It's more about what justicemom mentioned - seeing what he's capable of with some skilled handler, just once or twice during the training.
But he surprises me every day..... he's a super curious dog, he wags his tail at total strangers and loves humans. BUT at agility class he won't even take toy from someone else's hands!! When I give it to him, it's fine and he loves tug of war, but he wouldn't cooperate with anyone else. Once trainer wanted to show me how to do some handling and tried to convince my little lad to run with her - just few obstacles - and he wouldn't. OR during another class trainer told us to try and exchange our dogs for one easy sequence, just to try different handling. I ran the course with friend's schnauzer but even when friend got fresh chicken, my dog wouldn't ran with her. He jumped over one or two obstacles, ate chicken and ran away back to me
He's smart. What I find curious is that he really loves people, he's sometimes too trustful, he comes up to total strangers and studies them with curiosity You should see him do that. He's like little stalker at times. It's hilarious, he's so serious with his lil' research. Sometimes I have to call him back when I suspect that certain people don't look too friendly.So that's my boy, he really chose me, so now he needs to deal with me haha.
But you are right, I wouldn't want anyone else competing with him. I'd want to see him at training with someone else, but only to find out how would other more skilled hanlder do with him. I wouldn't want to get frustrated as you pointed out.
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ALTHOUGH, my dog sometimes barks [sometimes even really angry barking lol] and I know he's lost his patience 
