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Too slow for your dog? Busting the myths 3

This article was originally written as a response to a discussion on Facebook, about the European style course that somebody posted, with tons of people commenting on how impossible the course is to run for 1. big dogs, 2. short handlers, 3. old handlers. It sounded like in order...
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01 Oct 2013
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Set your goals??? – Or just enjoy the moment! Busting the myths 2

Talking about goals, setting them and working hard to achieve them is a very popular topic these days and "Since when winning World Championships was your goal" is a very common question I get in interviews.  Well, it never was my goal to win World Championships. Hey, I started...
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26 Aug 2013
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Let your weakness be your strength Busting the myths 1

Publishing a series of 6 articles on Busting the myths, written for Clean Run, also here now: I was actually asked to write a training article on running contacts or turns or something else my dogs are most famous for. But training articles are really not my thing, I have a...
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28 May 2013
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Why teaching Tricks???

And here comes an article on tricks, written for Agility Zone: I got into tricks 10 years ago, when La was just a puppy. She was my first perfect puppy, with no fears or phobias to address, so we soon ran out of puppy things to teach. - Until we discovered tricks. And never ran...
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07 Dec 2011
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It’s all about the teamwork

In one of the recent interviews, I was asked what is more important: how good the dog is or how good the handler is. And well, I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. You can take a World Champion dog and have it run with a World Champion handler - and it might be a disaster. It's...
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20 Oct 2011
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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
– 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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