Agility

Steppin' Up offers all levels of classes for those interested in exploring the fast growing sport of agility. Find out why Dog Agility is one of the fastest growing sports in the country and learn how to build a gratifying relationship with your dog, at the same time.

Attention games for agility:

This is an eight week class that is a must for any dog or puppy that wants to get the best start on the road to an agility career. Whether you are highly competitive or not this is the class for you. You will end up with a dog that wants to play, chase, and pay attention to you. Your dog will learn all the handling skills he needs to build a wonderful working relationship with you. Your dog will learn the following commands, come to either the right or left side, turn away from you, go straight ahead, come in to you, get out away from you, circle you both right and left, table count game, start line game, and much more. This class is guaranteed to be both fun and informative!

Beginner Standard: one and two

Each of these are a six week session set up to introduce your dog or puppy to all of the contact equipment. Learn to do the contacts correctly, right from the start. You will learn the dogwalk, aframe, seesaw, tunnels, weaves, table, and chute. All agility classes are both fun and informative. You and your dog will get the best foundation as you start on your agility career. Do not miss the opportunity to have fun with you canine partner.

Skills class 1 and 2

These classes are each six weeks long.
Skills one is geared to help you master both front and rear crosses. You will learn how to treadle between jumps, how to do a beautiful serpentine, 180 and 270 degree turns. Teach your dog how to "get out," push and to "come in"pull to you. You will learn all these skills and much more.

Skills two will pick up from what you have already learned in skills one and will teach your dog to work at a distance. This is perfect for those of you who have a velcro dog or for any handler that want or needs their dog to work away from them. You must take skills one first as what you have learned in that class will enable you to learn more advanced skills needed in distance work. Ever see those handlers who have dogs that work away from their handlers and wonder how they do that. This class will teach you how they do that!

All classes at Steppin-up have no more than 8 to 10 dog handler teams. This allows each student to get lots of attention and make great progress!