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Running Contacts


1h long, 50 eur/cca.58usd

Silvia Trkman's new DVD, putting a twist to her previous Running Contacts video - making the process shorter and easier on dogs' bodies and limiting the time on actual equipment to the minimum. It allows you to train anytime, anywhere and master turns, soft turns and straight exits with all possible handling after with just a mat and well before introducing dog-walk and A-frame. It

  • shorts the whole process by focusing on understanding right from the start
  • limits the work on equipment to the minimum by teaching it all on just a mat - meaning very little work on actual dog-walk needed
  • eliminates the tossed toy phase, replacing it with just handing the toy to a dog, so it's much easier on their bodies - but still allows you to work with lots of speed well before adding a dog-walk into the picture

It covers both dog-walk and A-frame and is appropriate for total beginners, retrains and all trying to improve their running contacts.

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The Easiest Way to Running Contacts DVD trailer

The DVD is 1 hour long, plays everywhere in the world and can be shipped anywhere.

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199 Comments

  1. Sibila Vadlja February 24, 2014 at 08:16 Log in to Reply

    Sorry to bother you here, but i have one quick question. 😉
    I will start to train AF now with Hero and i would like to have running AF. Do you think i should try to get two strides or is this to optimistic and i should from beginning train one stride only?

    • LoLaBu February 24, 2014 at 12:17 Log in to Reply

      I wouldn’t worry about number of strides and just select for good running style… If you can get good reach and separation, we can get the hits as well, regardless of number of strides.

  2. Sibila Vadlja February 24, 2014 at 13:11 Log in to Reply

    Ok, thank you very much, will try like this. Hope it will be easier than DW. 😀

    • LoLaBu February 24, 2014 at 13:53 Log in to Reply

      You gave up on DW?

      • Sibila Vadlja February 24, 2014 at 14:53 Log in to Reply

        Actually i have to work a lot now and i don’t have so much time to train anymore so i decided i will go for 2on2off on DW, it will go faster, considering i have to do a lot of preparation to put together setup for RC. 🙁 And I would like to start competing with him in spring that he will have more fun on competitions too, i have a lot of stuff to do until then so i decided so, yes, it’s just impossible to have it all by then. I’m hardly waiting for that, now that agility become great fun for him. 🙂 And i think he was somehow trained for 2on2off, because he get it immediately, maybe that explains all the problems we have with it. But i have planned something like that from the beginning, but running AF i would really like to have. 🙂 Now that nice weather will start and we will have almost all obstacles we will come to Handling to learn some more. 🙂

        • LoLaBu February 24, 2014 at 16:38 Log in to Reply

          Sure, sounds like a good plan!

  3. Kay Jennings February 25, 2014 at 12:30 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia, could you possibly have a look and see what I’m doing wrong please? 🙂 We started running contacts last winter but gave up as we weren’t making progress, started again at the beginning of this winter….not had as much chance to work on it as I’d like as it’s been so wet here!
    We were getting over 80% success with low dogwalk (65cm?) and one particular start spot, went up to medium trestles (80cm?) as have nothing in between, and all of a sudden Dazzle is trying to take a stride out and do it in 4 strides! She’s still running, still showing separation, so missing not leaping, although if she put her front feet down I think she’d be there……..in 5 strides (6 hits) she’s there, but these are rare, mostly getting 4 strides/5 hits and a miss! I tried increasing the approach speed to see if she could get there in 4 strides, but she’s not big enough! Should we lower the height again? Find a start spot that gives us consistent 5 strides? Play the get that contact game? Very grateful for any feedback, as I’m tearing my hair out!!

    RC compilation 19th 24th Feb 2014

    • LoLaBu February 25, 2014 at 16:32 Log in to Reply

      Most dogs avoid hitting with ff once the height goes up, so we don’t want those no -- just limit her speed on the approach to get 5 stride rf hits. More height will discourage 4 strides anyway. Some gtcg never hurts either.

      • Kay Jennings February 25, 2014 at 17:14 Log in to Reply

        Thanks Silvia! One more question….is it OK to carry on competing with our 2 on 2 off while we’re training running, so I don’t put us under pressure to try and train this too quick?

        • LoLaBu February 25, 2014 at 17:21 Log in to Reply

          Yes. You just need 2 different cues of course.

          • Kay Jennings February 25, 2014 at 17:25 Log in to Reply

            Great, we have 2 cues! One more question, last one I promise! Is it best to work on getting to full height before we do proofing like different start spots and approach speeds, or better to do all that at this height and then go up again and do it all again? Very grateful for your help, I have something positive to work with now, after getting varying advise from elsewhere and getting confused (which is why we gave up last year!)!

            • LoLaBu February 25, 2014 at 17:36 Log in to Reply

              No, only add speedier approaches when close to full height as more height will discourage 4 strides.

              • Kay Jennings February 25, 2014 at 18:04 Log in to Reply

                Brilliant, thanks!! I knew I needed to go the the source for advice!! 🙂

  4. Steffi Trott March 10, 2014 at 21:59 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia, this is where we are at.
    I have been starting him from a sit in front of the DW to get some low-speed approaches as you said. We are at 100cm now. Is this ok?

    • LoLaBu March 10, 2014 at 22:50 Log in to Reply

      This is good for hits yes, but throw in some speedier approaches and try to get 4 stride hits now, before raising it any further, as 4 strides is more realistic striding for him as 5.

  5. Steffi Trott March 10, 2014 at 22:01 Log in to Reply

    Oops sorry I meant to post this under “Our training RC” not “Videos RCs”

  6. Saara Vällik April 27, 2014 at 20:42 Log in to Reply

    Hello again Silvia!

    We just finished Running Contacts December class and now we are trying to manage running contacts by ourselves.
    But we ran out of ideas. We have tried to change the starting spot and my ball trowing but her success rate is still very low. I guess she is leaping sometimes?

    Sorry to bother you here but maybe you can help us out with some good ideas

    Here is the video of her last three sessions. Right now we are doing 2-3 sessions per week, should we do more?

    Thank you very much!

    • LoLaBu April 28, 2014 at 12:11 Log in to Reply

      Looks like good running to me… Are you starting from a wrap? Maybe try starting from a stay, maybe her striding will be more predictable then and good starting spot easier to find?

  7. Fiona Lövdinger June 15, 2014 at 19:48 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia!

    I have some trouble working out what kind of set up I like/am able to have. This one we both enjoy, even though I would rather be able to use a lowered DW and increase height. Is this set up OK? Will be get brilliant RC working like this? If so -- do I only bring her up higher on the DW when the angle is more like the real DW?

    Lilja RC 11/6

    • LoLaBu June 15, 2014 at 20:03 Log in to Reply

      Low DW would be better if possible… This can work as well, but transition to full DW will of course be harder as when you can work with full low DW.

  8. Aku July 25, 2014 at 02:57 Log in to Reply

    Hi Silvia’ I wanna know your advice about the running of Zelo. Does he run airy?

    • LoLaBu July 28, 2014 at 15:33 Log in to Reply

      Looks ready for plank work to me! It could be even flatter, but certainly not really airy.

  9. Magdalena Domanska August 18, 2014 at 13:55 Log in to Reply

    Dear Silvia.
    Last time i had problem with focus ahead. It is better now I think.
    Now we have another problem. She changes the rhythm and tries to make third part of DW in one stride, so she is very high or before zone. We have also problems with game on the end of dw.

    I am waiting for opening rc class very much.

    RC 17 08

    • LoLaBu August 18, 2014 at 21:31 Log in to Reply

      That’s a typical PyrShep problem yes -- too long stride for 5 strides, too short for 4. This is what I get with Le if I train on short DWs, so I only train on 4m DW and then she does 5 strides in trials out of habit. Le’s sister has the same problem and no longer DW, so she uses carpet extension to make it look longer. Another thing that helps is to work on advanced exits as that promotes a bit less speed on a down ramp as well, so I would focus on that now. I don’t really think she needs gtcg as she is clearly trying to hit when doing the whole DW, she just needs to figure out her striding.

  10. Magdalena Domanska August 18, 2014 at 22:31 Log in to Reply

    Thank you for the quick reply. I’ll train according to your advice.


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