I Joined An Agility Club

Looks like many of us are part of clubs. For those that joined, do you think it's been worthwhile? And if so, how so?

Sheri: Hope you're feeling better. 4 days is a lot!

p.s. looks like, oh, I can say my now, my club does AKC, CPE, and USDAA. I think they just started USDAA recently. like last year. Oh and we are also doing ASCA.
 
k9kreationz said:
Looks like many of us are part of clubs. For those that joined, do you think it's been worthwhile? And if so, how so?
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Definitely. We've made a lot of friends in our club. Not that we aren't friends with people outside of the club, but we're definitely a closer knit bunch.

We also get first dibs on upcoming seminars (and some of them sell out quickly). We also are able to rent or borrow club equipment sometimes and take it home since everyone knows us so well.

Of course, we work our butts off at our club, so that's the tradeoff!
 
corbinam said:
Definitely. We've made a lot of friends in our club. Not that we aren't friends with people outside of the club, but we're definitely a closer knit bunch.

We also get first dibs on upcoming seminars (and some of them sell out quickly). We also are able to rent or borrow club equipment sometimes and take it home since everyone knows us so well.

Of course, we work our butts off at our club, so that's the tradeoff!
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This is what I'm hoping for. Maybe I'll ask around for who other people train with. See if I can find someone else closer. Should have thought about that earlier. lol.

Maybe I can talk them into flying Stuart out our way. hehehe.
 
k9kreationz said:
This is what I'm hoping for. Maybe I'll ask around for who other people train with. See if I can find someone else closer. Should have thought about that earlier. lol.

Maybe I can talk them into flying Stuart out our way. hehehe.
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My club in Alabama had Stuart do a seminar last winter. I did not attend as I did not have an agility dog then. not even sure that Cran was here yet- if he was then he was still a lil pup- 8-10 weeks.
 
corbinam said:
Definitely. We've made a lot of friends in our club. Not that we aren't friends with people outside of the club, but we're definitely a closer knit bunch.
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This is probably the biggest advantage to joining a club.

You also expand the knowledge base you have access to. Chances are someone in the club has had similar training hurdles to work through and they may be able to offer advice.
 
If some of you recall, I joined an agility club, then said I'd help with the newsletter. I'm linking it here so you can check it out. I revamped the way it looks, but the type of content is overall remaining the same.

I took the yummy cheese treat recipe from here (thanks Sharon). It's fast, easy and the dogs love them!

I would love to get your feedback. Except for the small things, I get the articles from the board members or trial chair person. Even the agility bit is written by someone else. Score! Kinda makes my life easier. I only need to think of a few things. I may keep doing the treat section.

So, here's the link: My first newsletter
ETA: this file is 3mb, so download at your convenience.

Feel free to critique it. You do NOT need to read it. I'm just feeling proud of my work. ;) Especially since I've been working on it for a LONG time now.
 
k9kreationz said:
If some of you recall, I joined an agility club, then said I'd help with the newsletter. I'm linking it here so you can check it out. I revamped the way it looks, but the type of content is overall remaining the same.

I took the yummy cheese treat recipe from here (thanks Sharon). It's fast, easy and the dogs love them!

I would love to get your feedback. Except for the small things, I get the articles from the board members or trial chair person. Even the agility bit is written by someone else. Score! Kinda makes my life easier. I only need to think of a few things. I may keep doing the treat section.

So, here's the link: My first newsletter
ETA: this file is 3mb, so download at your convenience.

Feel free to critique it. You do NOT need to read it. I'm just feeling proud of my work. ;) Especially since I've been working on it for a LONG time now.
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How much feedback would you like? :lol: I have my red pen...

But seriously, it looks great! I think it's such a cool idea, and has a lot of great content. Very nice.
 
corbinam said:
How much feedback would you like? :lol: I have my red pen...

But seriously, it looks great! I think it's such a cool idea, and has a lot of great content. Very nice.
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As long as it doesn't run out of ink, we're fine. :P
If you do have feedback, shoot it may way. I'm tough, I can handle it, and if it not, I'll be sure to give you bad agility advice. LOL.
 
My Club doesn't put on any trials, but we do have fun days each member is responsible for hosting/ or assisting with at least one event per year, at local trials I do assist if needed, usually doing course set up or ring steward but the big club here always have enough members that they don't have to rely on volunters.

For My club I hosted a saturday fun day set up as an introduction to agility games to try and give members a bit of a handle on what the games are and how they work because out of the current 35 members there is only 3 of us who currently actually trial ther dogs, so most members didn't have a clue as to what the games were about or how you went about playing them.

It was pretty well recieved, I set up a mock trial atmosphere with closed indoor ring, and spectator/crating area for distraction, did a st gamblers & a ST Snooker course, with timing, threw in some dollar store prizes and everyone there did 2 runs on each course , had a lot of fun and they did enjoy it and learned alot.

We are having a fun day BBQ and open agility runs on Oct 15 actually, and I am kinda looking forwad to it, I havent seen any of the other members out and about for about 3 months now.


Geez a 9 page Newsletter that's pretty good , ours rarely gets to 2 pages and is often only one ;)
Looks Great By the way.
 
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Hurtseverywhere said:
My Club doesn't put on any trials, but we do have fun days each member is responsible for hosting/ or assisting with at least one event per year, at local trials I do assist if needed, usually doing course set up or ring steward but the big club here always have enough members that they don't have to rely on volunters.

For My club I hosted a saturday fun day set up as an introduction to agility games to try and give members a bit of a handle on what the games are and how they work because out of the current 35 members there is only 3 of us who currently actually trial ther dogs, so most members didn't have a clue as to what the games were about or how you went about playing them.

It was pretty well recieved, I set up a mock trial atmosphere with closed indoor ring, and spectator/crating area for distraction, did a st gamblers & a ST Snooker course, with timing, threw in some dollar store prizes and everyone there did 2 runs on each course , had a lot of fun and they did enjoy it and learned alot.

We are having a fun day BBQ and open agility runs on Oct 15 actually, and I am kinda looking forwad to it, I havent seen any of the other members out and about for about 3 months now.


Geez a 9 page Newsletter that's pretty good , ours rarely gets to 2 pages and is often only one ;)
Looks Great By the way.
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Even though many of you don't trial, it still sounds like you guys all have fun!!!! Which is the important thing, right?

Yup, 9 pages and I was trying to cut it down. That's a LOT!!! Hopefully, they won't be so long everytime. Not sure I'd want to read 9 pages.
 
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