Im not that experienced at agility, it was my hoped for dog sport, but, sadly due to problems training, due mainly to the way the contacts were trained, I pulled out. We trained for it for about a year, but a large part of that was attempting to sort out problems!
Banya's a belgian terv and very confident but sensitive. She was originally trained for contacts with method 3. We had a good instructor but, she was rather more used to BCs and gundogs. When I queried training methods with a Belgian agility trainer, I was told the best method for the breed (due to their innate sensitivity) was backchaining.
I can totally see this now, but at the time was new to agility, etc and because the instructor was someone i trusted, went along with method 3.
I just thought i'd mention this to add to the info
Lindsay
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