k9kreationz
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The biggest thing to remember is that it's very spread out and very flowy. Oh, and you WILL run if you don't have distance. LOL.
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The biggest thing to remember is that it's very spread out and very flowy. Oh, and you WILL run if you don't have distance. LOL.
k9kreationz
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Not so much in NADAC. They do a lot of distance work. You can't run while doing this game (with gates and hoops).
Calliesmom
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I was thinking that you should find some clubs to join- get some practice in, meet some people and then decide what to enter.......
come on down- Jocu would love to play with you- so long as you have cookies
when you find a club- maybe you could help with handling other dogs.
my friend is running a sheltie in a trial in Oct for this older couple. they will show him in obedience and rally but someone else always runs him in agility.....
Not in NADAC! I took Jordan and Maverick to a NADAC show and she was the only one that ran at all. She had the fastest times of anyone that whole weekend
Calliesmom
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Nadac also has veteran handler so you can reduce jump height one more level....
Nadac does emphasize distance handling- I think Chances is the only course that requires distance handling.
I have only run in Regular, Touch N Go, Jumpers, Weavers and Tunnelers- I am right there with my dog to the best of my ability.......
we are working on more distance but we have a way to go yet
Calliesmom
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Not in NADAC! I took Jordan and Maverick to a NADAC show and she was the only one that ran at all. She had the fastest times of anyone that whole weekend
I think that must depend on the club and who enters the trials.
I started in Nadac and I have run with my dogs every time......
That's not saying that there aren't people there standing in the middle of the ring directing their dog around the course- but I have seen that at AKC trials too.
Since I can barely get my dogs to take the right thing when I am there with them, no way that I can try and get them to do something halfway across the ring
I think that must depend on the club and who enters the trials.
I started in Nadac and I have run with my dogs every time......
That's not saying that there aren't people there standing in the middle of the ring directing their dog around the course- but I have seen that at AKC trials too.
Since I can barely get my dogs to take the right thing when I am there with them, no way that I can try and get them to do something halfway across the ring
Yes but people that train and compete with NADAC exclusively, typically do train their dogs with distance training from the get-go. There are some of us that do several venues and we tend to have a different outlook, but NADAC has quite the following of people that will only do NADAC.
Calliesmom
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I guess that I don't know many people that only do one venue- whatever that may be.......
It's different depending who you train with and what area you're located in. Around here, people are mainly AKC folk with the occasional USDAA show sprinkled in. I used to know a lot of people that did both AKC and NADAC but they really seem to be much more split now with the NADAC people kinda staying to themselves. We knew very few people when we went to the NADAC show and I've been competing for 13 years now so I thought I knew most of the competitors in the area until we went to that show. We knew I think 3 or 4 people there. And it was at one of the very common agility sites.