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I am trying to teach my GSD agility training.?

He's good with the jumps and tunnel but he's not into the weave poles. He'll go through with some minor help from me but then I want him to turn around and go through again and he ignores me unless I physically move to where I want him. I want a way to make this easier on him so he'll have fun with agility.

I use the tennis ball thrown over the jump as a motivator but I can't through the ball through the weave poles unfrotunately.

1. The issue isn't the weave poles, it's drive. He has drive for some things (his tennis ball, jumps, tunnels) but not others. So you want to create drive for the weave poles. And there are lots of ways to do that.
--try doing the 2v2 method (just 2 weave poles). He enters and you throw the ball. Then add 2 more. And so on.
--treat the ball as a reward, not a lure. He'll learn "I do the weave poles and I get my ball". I train with a golden who is ball motivated and she'll charge through a course then gets rewarded with a thrown ball.
--use channels. I do this with my guy. Or guide wires. The idea is to make it easier to go faster in the weaves and build in a rhythm. So when the guide wires come off (or the channels disappear) the dog still moves fast. It works with my dog.

2. Try getting Joe Canova's DVD on weaves. His stuff is fantastic (www.cleanrun.com).

3. Do NOT do the weaves and turn around and do them again. What your'e teaching the dog is the equivalent of giving a kid spinich, he eats it so you give him more--he'd learn not to eat it! Well, what you want to do instead is do weaves and then treat your dog as if he just saved the world. You want your dog to view the weaves as his favorite obstacle. I did the same thing with my guy when he was first learning the teeter. It reached the point where he run across the entire course ignoring my cues to get to the teeter because he knew that to do it was treat-city! YOu can easily work past that problem, the key is to make the obstacle one the dog looks forward to.

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Can You Build a Wimbledon Tennis Champion?

I have had quite a few comments (mainly congratulations) about the photos of Mike and the trophy he got for winning the ITF junior event in Spain a couple of weeks ago. And the number 1 question and comment is whether I could put my finger on any "secret" to this success?

Did I build a tennis champion?

Well, first off let me say that he is not there yet and has a long way to go - we are not talking about Pete Sampras (a model we used), Roger Federer or Rafa Nadal at the moment, but having said that his development has been great.

Now I know exactly where everybody is coming from with their questions. They are really asking "is there anything that you did with Mike that could help me?"

Well I am all for following the trails of success so I put my thinking hat on.

In terms of "the secret", if I had to single out anything in particular it would be his ability to play good matches that was a big factor.

Since I saw and started working with him at the age of 6 or 7 when he stood out (along with several other kids I might add) as being a good striker of the tennis ball, we started working on (at a low level because of his age) simple strategies that were designed to cause his opponents problems.

Simple things like identifying spaces on the court and hitting the ball to those spaces were fundamental building blocks for him at 8 years old.

Obviously this is only one example but whatever we did had one overall aim - to take whoever he was playing OUT of their comfort zone.

Because let's face it if you are given a chance to play a match playing on your terms/in your comfort zone, hitting the shots you want to, when you want to hit them you must rate your chances of winning that match as AT LEAST pretty good.

So we worked on trying (as much as possible) to get Mike into this position whilst getting his opponents not hitting their favorite shots etc. (out of their comfort zone), because the bottom line is this - If he was able to do this, his chances of winning were INCREASED!

Or put another way, if his opponent was taken out of their comfort zone, their chances of winning was REDUCED!

Back to the title of this piece.

Well, I don't have some laboratory somewhere with spare arms and legs lying around waiting to be attached in a Frankenstein styled attempt to build tennis players (now there's a thought!!), but the one thing that was a conscious action was to implant the basic matchplay strategies that would hopefully allow him to win matches when all else was equal (shots etc).

At the end of the day, tennis is a win or lose sport. There are no draws.
To improve your ranking or rating you have to win tennis matches!
To get promoted in your division or ladder league - you have to win tennis matches.

To go far and even win your Club Championships - you have to win tennis matches!

To become recognized and perceived as a better tennis player you have to win more tennis matches, it's as simple as that.

So if there is one thing to look at and take away from what was a story about one boys ITF triumph in a foreign country it would be this - Learn more about the process behind winning tennis matches!

You can learn the exact system I used with Mike by going to http://www.tennis-training-central.com/products.html and looking for the Special Report - Beat All The Tennis Players You Want.

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