Okay, so there's a chance Z and I will be starting agility within the next month or two. I think I want to use the Channel Method when teaching the weave poles. Honestly I know very, very little about agility. So I was just wondering, does anyone recommend any literature or videos on agility, and more speficially, the channel method?
I have been watching Emily Snider's YouTube vids of two different dogs learning the channel method from beginning to end. Seems as simple as gradually narrowing the gap.
The trainer we will be going through uses the 2x2 method I think, which I also don't completely understand, but the channel method seems to make more sense to me. Zekers does have an issue with small spaces, so regardless weave poles might be tough for him. We'll see I guess.
I'm not entirely sure what to expect, as the club she trains for is big on prong collars and a combination of corrective and positive methods, while I use no corrective methods at all. But I'm not sure if that's part of her personal training philosophy or not. Regardless, if she does use corrective methods, I will not hesitate to tell her off if she tries to correct my shy Zekers. He'll have a hard enough time just approaching her for the first several days. I will of course talk to her long before any training begins and figure out exactly how she trains(in terms of corrective/positive).
So one last question....should I go with whatever method the trainer uses since she's trained it thousands of times, or insult her and tell her I want to train it a different way? Or ask her for help training it a different way? Or, is she going to want to bash my head in regardless? Lol.
Thanks in advance! :dogtongue2:
I have been watching Emily Snider's YouTube vids of two different dogs learning the channel method from beginning to end. Seems as simple as gradually narrowing the gap.
The trainer we will be going through uses the 2x2 method I think, which I also don't completely understand, but the channel method seems to make more sense to me. Zekers does have an issue with small spaces, so regardless weave poles might be tough for him. We'll see I guess.
I'm not entirely sure what to expect, as the club she trains for is big on prong collars and a combination of corrective and positive methods, while I use no corrective methods at all. But I'm not sure if that's part of her personal training philosophy or not. Regardless, if she does use corrective methods, I will not hesitate to tell her off if she tries to correct my shy Zekers. He'll have a hard enough time just approaching her for the first several days. I will of course talk to her long before any training begins and figure out exactly how she trains(in terms of corrective/positive).
So one last question....should I go with whatever method the trainer uses since she's trained it thousands of times, or insult her and tell her I want to train it a different way? Or ask her for help training it a different way? Or, is she going to want to bash my head in regardless? Lol.
Thanks in advance! :dogtongue2: