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If you are interested in training with me, please click on the button "training and seminars" on the menu and read more about the type of trainings that I offer and about the dates. You can also contact me here or send me a private message on facebook or via e-mail. 

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I do not have  a special training philosophy. I do not consider myself a training expert, agility professional or anything alike. My training isn't special at all and it is not different to others. I do not look for new methods, new moves, new inventions, I use the existing methods that I believe are good and efficient and then adapt them to a particular dog. Of course I have my own ideas too, but they are sometimes good and sometimes not :) We try, we fail, we try again, we succed. I do not follow any particular system of training and each of my dogs was trained differently, so using different methods, according to their needs. 

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What  makes our training good in my opinion is that we build a good bond, drive, focus, speed and strong foundations, before doing any real agility obstacles. I believe there are no good agility trainers or good agility dogs, only good teams. So we spend lots and lots of time just playing, bonding, learning tricks, socializing, buliding independence, speed, focus and most importantly, we enjoy every single moment of learning, no rush, no pressure, no shortcuts. Remember agility is not getting a super ingelligent or the fastest dog in the world, agility is about getting the best out of the dog that you have, accepting your dog's and your faults and focus on your virtues. 

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I believe a good agility team should always respect this order: 1. motivation and confidence - 2. good foundations - 3. handling. So focusing on what's important first, a dog with a good motivation is easy to train and a dog with good foundations is easy to handle. In my training I focus on motivation and speed, good understanding of an isolated obstacle and on "reading" the dog, I study the dog's mind and movement and adapt things and methods to his needs. Throughout foundations exercises we also work on basic handler movement, self - control, independance and general understanding of agility obstacles. 

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Each of my dogs has taught me very important lessons about training and about life in general. My first dog is Ben. We started off with motivational issues and when things got a little better he started showing early take off jumping problems. Since he is my first dog that was quite a hard start and it took us 3 years to solve these issues and at the age of 5 I could finally say he was giving it all on the course. 

​Winnie was totally another story, while Ben was the most sociable little thing on earth, crazy about toys, Winnie was terribly fearful as a puppy and totally uninterested in any kind of toy. But unlike Ben she was crazy motivated for agility, to the point when she got really hysteric on the course. So we basically tackled with fears, self-control and hysteria. 

I thought I knew all the how's and why's after Ben and Winnie but I could not be more wrong. When I got MikMik I felt like a total greenhorn, nothing worked with her, no plan, no method, no experience, I felt like I was training a goldfish. MikMik was... I did not understand her at all, she was the least motivated of all my dogs, the most sensitive and had the weirdest ideas. Our beginnings were a total mess, it took me a long time to understand her better. She was the most horrible jumper ever, she was taking off so early that I almost gave up on us doing any agility. But well, I am so greatful for her as she is the one that has thought me things far more important than agility, about bonding and building relationship, about acceptance, values and priorities. 

And Roo, well he for sure taught me patience. Roo has no issues. He is a perfect dog for working - motivated, fast, playful, intelligent, talented, he has it all. He is one of those dogs that people usually like to say "he is making fun of you" or "he is deliberately doing things wrong". That is because he is so perfect on training but then would not finish the simplest weaves on competitions, would jump the contacts as if he never saw a dog walk in his life and would have like 7 refusals on one course. Well, that's Roo, he does all that, but not because he were making fun of me, he just needs more time to understand trials are just another training. 

If you are interested in training with me, please click on the button "training and seminars" on the menu and read more about the type of trainings that I offer and about the dates. You can also contact me here or send me a private message on facebook or via e-mail. 

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