That's it! Time to show off what you've learned in the class! Please post your graduation videos here. Also, let me know which one of the training videos you would like to get as your graduation gift and I'll send you a download link! Congratulations to all the graduates and I hope to see you in another class!
Puppy January Graduation
Xtreme Foundations and Running Contacts classes are now both open for registration – starting soon!!! |
 Silvia 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– 3x World Champion (with two different dogs)
– 5x European Open winner, with 4 different dogs (Lo, La, Bu, Le)!!!
– National Championships podium and World Team member with every dog she’s ever had – National Champion for 22-times (with 5 different dogs of 3 different breeds) – World Team member for 19-times (mostly with at least two dogs at the time – sometimes four 🙂 ) |
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Libby is great Mary! I especially liked her sit-up, so cute. Lovely video. 🙂
Thank you. You and Nibbler did an awesome job with all the tricks. Such a smart little guy. Hope to see you both in another class soon. 🙂
Thanks Mary. 🙂 I’m going to try and do Foundations in October and then who knows… I’m a bit addicted to these classes now -- too much fun!
When is the cut off to submit our video? I haven’t had a chance to do it yet!!
No worries, there is no time limit for graduation videos.
It took a while, but we did .. Here’s our Graduation´s video, with some of the tricks learned here, some variations of these tricks and some tricks invented by Bonnie …! We could not put all the tricks we learned in this excellent class, because some of the tricks need a little more practice, but we’re on it. 🙂
Special thanks to our great teacher SILVIA TRKMAN for her inexhaustible patience, all your valuable advices & for always be there to help us.
Thank you very much for the gift of the DVD, we would love to have the video of Agility Foundations … !
Thank you very much again, you are an extraordinary person, so God always fill your life with blessings …
What a cute cute video!!! Love her speed and enthusiasm! Great job with the tricks -- really cool side legs already and definitely mastering all the variations of one object to another! Great job, sending you the video!
Thank you, much of this work is due to you and the way you inspire us to work with our dogs. There is still much to do but with people like you helping us, we always have the advice and encouragement to keep going. Even when you have a puppy, named Riminito, and he jumps ALL CONTACTS … lol 🙂
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I feel so bad that I have not been as active in this class as I wanted to. I have had a lot of problems with Gangster when my other dogs (girls) went in to heat. Gangster stopped eating and it went so bad that he had to spend a couple of days in the animal hospital. After that he has been living at my friends house so he has not been home for a while. When he came home again I took him to the animal hospital again so now he is castrated and I hope this helps so he feels better next time the girls are in heat.
Now he is fit for fight again and we are trying to catch up but I think it´s gonna take a while before we can do a graduation video, hope it´s ok?
Love all the tricks and the class has been great!
Oh no, poor Gangster to react so strongly to it… But well, he should be o.k. now! Looking forward to his graduation video -- you can submit it any time.
Thanks!
We are working on the tricks every day now and we are having so much fun 😀 He really is a quick learner so it´s not gonna take too long before we can make the graduation video 🙂
Looking forward to it!
Hi Silvia!
Here is Ls graduation video:
I am sad to say that we will not be able to join the Running contact class as intended. L problably got panosteitis, and pain in her rear left leg. We have her under investigation at the veterinary and are going to do a scintography as soon as possible.
I hope she gets well soon so we can join your next Foundation class.
Regards / Carola & L
Beautiful video! L is doing great with all her tricks and it’s so cool to see her so enthusiastic after all the set backs we had! I hope her leg is better soon too and she can soon run again… Let me know which video you want for graduation!
Oh I cannot decide which video I want the most….
Do you recommend the heeling or the cik & cap?
I already have the foundation, running contacts and ready steady go video.
You can see the trailers and decide what you like more… We did lots of heeling in this class already, so maybe cik&cap?
Ok then I would like the cik&cap please 🙂
O.k., sent!
Cool video. Great to see that you solved all problems and it really seems that you both enjoy action 🙂
So sorry L’s leg, I hope she will get better soon!
Thank you!
And yes we both are having problems being calm 😉
Bonnie’s mom Sofia wants to be part of the Lolabuland´s Band, so she asked me to send this video to audition …!! LOL 🙂
Sooo cute! The best part is that she looks super serious about it 🙂
Hello,
I have finally finished Ginger’s grad video. We are still working on alot of things but I am inpressed with how Ginger has picked up more of the shaping. She was first training by luring so it was challenging but we enjoyed it.
Aw, so cute! Great job, Ginger certainly learned to think! Let me know which video you want for graduation!
Can we get the CIK CAP good place to start I think! 😉
O.k. -- sent!
Here is Bowie’s graduation video -- so much more that I could’ve put on there but ran out of time on the video!
Aw, Bowie is so cute -- love his enthusiasm! Great speed with cik&cap and really cool recalls and stays -- looks like he will make a great agility dog! Let me know which video you want for graduation!
Thanks Silvia 😀 can’t wait to do Foundation Class with him. Thought I’d wait til October and make a start on his cik&cak and foundation basics from the DVD so we can get a head start. I’d love the Tricks for Strength and Balance DVD please, thanks again for such a fun course 🙂
O.k., sent! See you in Foundations!
Better late then sorry they say.
We mostly work overall on long distance work. Living in Montreal, a dense city, may be a living hell with a Border. Not all the tricks are in there (backing up on a pile of books is missing and also closing doors (he does it naturally 🙂 Like a “boss” ahah!)
I’ll take a look at your next session and I’ll take the course back again. I’ll try to complete all that is missing next time! It was a lot of fun. Linux is now fast, interested, having a lot of fun… I think we’re now making a good team with your help!
He sure doesn’t lack speed and enthusiasm! 🙂 No doubt he loves his tricks and you make a great team! Hope to see you again in the next round or in Foundations! Let me know which video you want for graduation.
Tricks for better thinking skills please! 😀
O.k., sent!
Ok, so here is mine 😉 A bit long but there were so many things I wanted to add in that I ended on a 12 minutes video …
Fast is a very smart little boy. He will be 6 months old on wednesday.
Now we’ll continue to create a freestyle routine for next year, we also started flyball (very easy when the dog already knows cik&cap !) and we will be starting agility more seriously. So I was hesitating between Running Contacts and foundations, I think I will start with running contacts, as a gift 😉
Beautiful video! And great job with all the tricks -- he sure mastered many already!!! Loved the front feet stretch!!!
Thanks 😉
I had great moments training the tricks 😉 I’m completely fond of their expression when they try so hard to guess what you want and the way they react when they got the clic&treat 😉
Now … the question is … RC class or not RC class ? :-p