Agility Classes

Build a strong, confident foundation for your dog’s agility journey! This class focuses on developing the essential skills needed for safe, accurate, and enthusiastic performance on course. Throughout the program, we’ll introduce core obstacle performance, establish clear and effective handling techniques, and use grids and skill-building exercises to improve your dog’s understanding, consistency, and stride.

We’ll also incorporate exercises to strengthen focus, impulse control, and engagement, ensuring your dog can work confidently in stimulating environments. To support long-term success, this class includes fitness and body-awareness activities that promote strength, balance, and injury prevention.

Whether you’re preparing for competition or just looking to build a great teamwork foundation, this class sets the stage for an agile, motivated, and well-rounded canine partner.

Our Starter Agility class is designed for teams who already have a solid foundation and are ready to take the next step in their agility journey. This class is ideal for dogs who understand all of the core obstacles and handlers who are comfortable with essential handling techniques such as **front crosses, rear crosses, and blind crosses**.

Each class is structured to give every team **three focused working turns**, ensuring balanced skill development and meaningful progression:

*Skill Building:* Develop and refine advanced skills, strengthen teamwork, and introduce more challenging concepts.
*Obstacle Performance & Proofing:* Improve consistency, confidence, and clarity on equipment through targeted proofing and performance practice.
*Sequencing & Handling:* Put it all together on flowing sequences to sharpen timing, handling choices, and communication.

This class is the perfect bridge between foundational work and more advanced agility challenges—helping dogs and handlers build precision, confidence, and fluidity on course. This class will mirror the challenges you will face at a staters agility level in competition. 

Our Advanced Agility class is designed for experienced teams who are ready to tackle higher-level challenges and refine the skills needed for competitive success. This class is ideal for dogs who can confidently sequence obstacles and have begun to understand more complex cues such as threadles, backsides, and other advanced handling elements.

Each class provides every team with three focused working turns, allowing for targeted skill development and well-rounded progression:

* Skill Building: Strengthen and expand advanced handling skills, refine communication, and introduce more technical concepts.

*Obstacle Performance & Proofing: Enhance consistency, accuracy, and independence on equipment through purposeful proofing and performance drills.

*Sequencing & Handling: Apply advanced skills in challenging sequences designed to improve handling choices, timing, and flow.

This class mirrors the types of challenges you’ll face at the Advanced level in competition, helping you and your dog build the precision, confidence, and teamwork needed to excel in the ring.

Our Master Agility class is designed for highly skilled teams who are ready to fine-tune precision, tackle complex challenges, and perform at the highest levels of the sport. This class is ideal for dogs who can confidently sequence obstacles and have a solid, reliable understanding of advanced handling cues such as threadles, backsides, and demanding technical lines.

Each class provides every team with three focused working turns, ensuring deep, targeted practice:

• *Skill Building: Proof and strengthen advanced handling skills, sharpen teamwork, and refine the subtle details that make a run smooth and efficient.

• *Obstacle Performance & Proofing: Elevate consistency and independence on equipment through advanced proofing and performance drills.

• *Sequencing & Handling: Navigate challenging, technical sequences designed to push timing, accuracy, and decision-making—mirroring the types of challenges found in top-level courses.

This class reflects the complexity and demands of the Master level in competition, helping you and your dog reach peak performance with confidence, precision, and connection.