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Graduation RC December 2015

This is it! The class will be closing soon, but this page will stay open for ever and you can post your graduation videos at any point. But it's best to hurry up since gathering of "like"s starts whenever it's posted. Whoever has the biggest number of likes (only "likes" on this website count - those given directly on YouTube and Facebook don't count to make it easier to track) by May 5 gets a free next class of their choice :) - And the next three get a free download link to a training video of their choice!

Looking forward to see the sum ups of your hard work of last 4 months! May your RC keep making you smile!!!


99 Comments

  1. Nicola Vince April 4, 2016 at 23:38 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia, here is Apples graduation video, running contacts certainly make us smile! Thank you so much, it has been a journey that is still continuing, but you have been amazing, my stress level certainly reduced, thank you! To anyone wanting to try, there are lots of ups and downs, but be warned, running contacts are addictive, have fun!

    • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 09:09 Log in to Reply

      So Cool RC! And thank you Nicola & Apple -- your topic was very important for our own proggress! ❤️

    • Barlea April 5, 2016 at 09:53 Log in to Reply

      Those RC are definitely awesome <3 Like Maria, I loved following your post, keep on ! 🙂 🙂

      • Barlea April 5, 2016 at 11:57 Log in to Reply

        Sorry Nicola, need to write something in French cause my friends are liking my answer to your video instead of my video 🙂

        /!\ Salut les gens ! Il faut pas aimer ce commentaire ou le commentaire en haut, ma vidéo est tout en bas, on voit le border noir et blanc dessus (c’est Jips), alors je répète, n’aimez pas ces posts là mais le post où je mets la vidéo ! /!\

        • Nicola Vince April 5, 2016 at 13:27 Log in to Reply

          That’s ok, they can like mine as much as they like ;-P

      • Nicola Vince April 5, 2016 at 13:27 Log in to Reply

        Thank you

    • Amélie April 5, 2016 at 13:52 Log in to Reply

      A like for you and Apple 🙂 Amazing job you are doing, big lick from Uncle Fast :-p

    • Suzanne Verschuuren April 5, 2016 at 16:30 Log in to Reply

      wow did you go from nothing to full DW in this class?! thats freaking awesome!!! They look like great RC 😀

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:35 Log in to Reply

      GREAT job with Apple!!! She can sure do it all -- and what a beautiful separation!!!

  2. Marina Gushchina April 5, 2016 at 02:27 Log in to Reply

    Silvia,

    This class was a real adventure and roller-coaster for Kite and me – challenging and thrilling. It was my first RC training, and the first real agility dog 🙂 We had a lot of challenges because of my inexperienced handling and timing, but you helped to overcome any problems. In addition, Kite had issues with any left turn in the beginning of the class; he would miss any left entry. When I was watching our extreme front crosses on left later, I cried. I still cannot believe it 🙂

    With your help, we progressed from hand calls and turns on the carpet to trials. Kite set the best time in all Standard runs we had – Novice and Open. We got the Open Standard title within one week, only 2 straight trials. Not a single miss on any contact in all runs!!!
    I cannot believe that we got the entries that I could not dream about before.

    Thank you!

    graduation

    • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 13:36 Log in to Reply

      Lovely papillon with great RC!!

      • Marina Gushchina April 5, 2016 at 19:30 Log in to Reply

        Thank you! It was not easy! 🙂 We worked on only one course map exits (from advanced maps) for 2 months to get it all, but then all maps were done in 1 session each after that 🙂

    • Daniela Juwan April 5, 2016 at 18:11 Log in to Reply

      Looks awesome and I love love love papillons 🙂

      • Marina Gushchina April 5, 2016 at 19:27 Log in to Reply

        Thank you, he is a lot of fun 🙂

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:39 Log in to Reply

      Sooo cool! Such an amazing progress and really awesome contacts in any situation now! I have no doubts he will set many many more best times, such a cool little dog!

  3. Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 09:03 Log in to Reply

    Thank you Silvia and all classmates! ☺️ ❤️

    Miux RC Graduation video (Dec2015-Apr2016)

    • Barlea April 5, 2016 at 09:57 Log in to Reply

      Wow ! Awesome video ! Love your crazy monkeys and great RC ! 🙂

      • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 13:43 Log in to Reply

        Thanks

    • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 14:30 Log in to Reply

      Oops, I forgot to answer to your last reply Silvia before topic was closed! We entered the handling I classroom and sure want to join in graduates after that, thanks! ❤️ And thanks for your work for us… It’s amazing how you can always answer so fast, even with To’s suprise puppies. ☺️

      • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:44 Log in to Reply

        That made it a bit harder yes 🙂 Looking forward to see more of Miux in Graduates!!!

    • Priscilla Moser April 5, 2016 at 17:04 Log in to Reply

      I loved to follow the progress of you two!! What an awesome video 😀

      • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 19:55 Log in to Reply

        Thanks ☺️

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:44 Log in to Reply

      Wow, such a beautiful video! And such a cool dog!!! -- And really great contacts too! 🙂 Always so much fun to watch you two!

    • Katy Lanudos April 7, 2016 at 13:52 Log in to Reply

      Wow!!! Beautiful video!!! And awesome running contacts!!!!

    • Darcey Shears April 15, 2016 at 13:25 Log in to Reply

      Wow -- your video is stunning! And Miux looks brilliant!! 😀

  4. Priscilla Moser April 5, 2016 at 09:34 Log in to Reply

    We had a lot of fun training RC! It really is addictive, I love to train RC and it sure makes me smile 😀 .
    Toffee made it really easy for me to train her. I didn’t expect Toffee to get RC on full hight, with different approaches and exits till the end of this class. But she did it!
    Now we have to work on the tight turns and also the come to hand has to be trained a bit more.
    I’m looking forward to our first trials with RC 😀
    Thank you Silvia for all the advices and the great class!!

    Graduation Running contacts Toffee 2015-2016

    • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 13:32 Log in to Reply

      Wow, amazing how fast you learned everything!

      • Priscilla Moser April 5, 2016 at 16:58 Log in to Reply

        I’m also very impressed by Toffee! Somehow it was a easy “trick” for her 😀

    • Suzanne Verschuuren April 5, 2016 at 16:33 Log in to Reply

      you two are great! Learned a lot by following your topic, and really proud of Toffee to do it soooo good!! I’m sure you will enjoy her RC in trails 😀

      • Priscilla Moser April 5, 2016 at 17:00 Log in to Reply

        Thank you a lot!! It was so much fun to teach her or let her and Silvia teach me how it should work 😉 ?

    • Daniela Juwan April 5, 2016 at 18:10 Log in to Reply

      Super sister 🙂

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:48 Log in to Reply

      You two sure made it look easy!!! AMAZING progress in just 4 months, Toffee can sure do it all already! I’m sure she will be lots of fun to trial -- looking forward to plenty of good news! 🙂

      • Priscilla Moser April 6, 2016 at 07:23 Log in to Reply

        Thank you so much !!
        It will be so much fun to just run! I’m curious how our first trials will be.

        • LoLaBu April 6, 2016 at 14:09 Log in to Reply

          I’m suer she will do great!!! 🙂

  5. Barlea April 5, 2016 at 09:51 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia (and all my classmates)
    Such a journey ! Running contact had always been a dream for me, this kind of dream you let in your corner of your head, thinking it’s impossible. Well, nothing is impossible when you have the right person with you ! So, thank you Silvia for making my dream a reality -- even if we still have work to do ! -, thank you for helping me having fun with my strange and awesome dog for the first time. Cause yes, it was the first time we really get each other and Jips really loved it : running, running and only running, what could be better ? Nothing !
    And thank you classmates too, I really had a blast watching all of you succeed, running contact are surely addictive ! Sure, it has up and down, it had been a really roller coaster sometimes for me but like a certain Augustus said once, it’s a roller coaster that only goes up my friend ! 😉
    I’m not good at speech nor in video making but here’s mine 🙂

    Graduation

    • Maria-Miux April 5, 2016 at 13:42 Log in to Reply

      Beautiful RC!! ☺️

      • Barlea April 5, 2016 at 14:02 Log in to Reply

        Thanks ! 🙂

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:51 Log in to Reply

      Great job!!! No doubts she is loving those RC! 🙂 Great understanding already as well, should be easy from here on!

  6. Daniela Juwan April 5, 2016 at 15:09 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia and classmates!
    Here comes our graduation video! The girls and I just loved loved loved that class, RC are certainly addictive, so of course all of my dogs need them 🙂
    I love my girls to the moon and back, they did so great, I’m really a proud mommy 😀 I never thought that I would be that far with Maevee in that short amount of time and Aimee hits now often in a row, isn’t overadjusting anymore and as long as I’m in front or beside her I can finally handle her 🙂 🙂

    Thank you Silvia again for your awesome class and advice! I love all your classes but I sure love RC class the most!

    Running Contacts Aimee&Maevee

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:56 Log in to Reply

      Beautiful video, beautiful contacts and just AMAZING work with both! I can’t believe how Maevee looks now, after that first agility video of her that I saw! You sure turn every Aussie into a gold!!! 🙂

      • Daniela Juwan April 5, 2016 at 21:10 Log in to Reply

        Thank you so much <3 This comment totally made my day 🙂

        • Daniela Juwan April 6, 2016 at 11:27 Log in to Reply

          Guys please don’t like this comment but the video above 😀

      • Amy April 7, 2016 at 13:07 Log in to Reply

        Yes!!!! It wasn’t that long ago you were worried about her speed. Look at her now!!!!!! Really, really fun to watch!!!!

        • Daniela Juwan April 7, 2016 at 15:54 Log in to Reply

          Thank you 🙂

    • Nicola Vince April 6, 2016 at 09:45 Log in to Reply

      Amazing, beautiful dogs, video and contacts! Your turns are fabulous! Congratulations

      • Daniela Juwan April 6, 2016 at 10:49 Log in to Reply

        Thank you, I love your RC too, I loved watching your topic 🙂

  7. cathrine h skaret April 5, 2016 at 17:27 Log in to Reply

    Thank you for this super cool ride 😀

    Graduation Runnings Contacts 2016

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 19:59 Log in to Reply

      Amazing progress from carpet to this, in just one class! Great job with Zuki!!!

    • Amy April 7, 2016 at 21:14 Log in to Reply

      Loved watching Zuki!!!!!!!

  8. Tina Vieli April 5, 2016 at 20:43 Log in to Reply

    Thank you Silvia and to all my classmates!
    It was a pleasure!

    "App" Running Contacts Graduations

    • LoLaBu April 5, 2016 at 21:23 Log in to Reply

      Beautiful running!!! And great understanding! LOVE his style on turns! Great job!!!

  9. Silvia Santi April 6, 2016 at 00:40 Log in to Reply

    Thanks Silvia! me and Sonik have grown so much in these two years, your classes have taught us so much!

    rc sonik graduation video

    • LoLaBu April 6, 2016 at 13:34 Log in to Reply

      Sooo cool!!! Sonic can sure do it all! Such a cool dog and really beautiful contacts!

  10. Karole Ferguson April 6, 2016 at 00:43 Log in to Reply

    Silvia and classmates,
    Reno and I have had so much fun on this RC journey with you all. It is always a bit sad when class ends because we miss training with everyone we have gotten to “know” from around the world. Thank you Silvia for all of your excellent advice and for watching all of our many videos. Your classes are truly wonderful! Thank you to all the classmates we followed -- your posts were very helpful and inspired us to try different things. And a huge thank you to my crazy boy Reno for making RC with him so much fun!!! We still have more to train but I am so very happy with the progress we have made. Now, if only I can get him to come off of the DW… 🙂

    • LoLaBu April 6, 2016 at 13:36 Log in to Reply

      Great job with Reno!!! Lots of progress in just one class, looking great already!


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sialaSilvia Trkman is known for bringing every dog, from her first dog on, to the very top of the sport. Her dogs are known for great speed, tight turns, running contacts and long and injury-free careers. Silvia is in agility since 1992 and is
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