Papillon "Dash," Silvia Trkman's "Agility Foundations" Lesson #5 Homework

1,413 views · Published 26 January 2013 · 4:13 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: Sharon Page · 2013 · Pets & Animals

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Dash is a 23 mos. old Papillon taking an online agility course with Silvia Trkman (Lolabuland). I got Dash at nearly 6 months old, and he didn't have regular access to agility equipment until he was 17 months old. So he has had about 6 months of regular practice now. 

Here he demonstrates the skills from the Lesson #5 homework, including threadles, pushes, rear crosses, and a sequence that uses all these elements. (I messed up jump #8. It was supposed to be a push, and I sent Dash to do a wrap instead).  

On the end, I tacked on some footage from his recent agility run-thru, as well as some slow-motion footage of running contacts and his statistics.

After 30+ sessions of "normal" running contacts, he is fine on the A-frame and teeter. However, he is running to the end of the dog-walk less than half the time, and jumping the rest. After two sessions of "four on the floor" modified running contacts (with a down after the DW), he has already improved a lot.

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