Agility

AGILITY, A SPORT FOR ALL

Agility is first of all a created educative game in London during the development of a famous canine exhibition of 1978; with the purpose of covering too long intervals during this exhibition. The public was enchanted when seeing the dogs to jump and to run with immense joy next to his guides who directed them and animated by all the route. Quickly this one modality transferred the borders of the United Kingdom, extending to the rest of Europe and other countries like Japan, Canada, E.E.U.U etc

That is agility?

The canine modality of agility is inspired by jumping equestrian and conceived the pleasure and diversion of the spectator, of the conductor, but mainly and first of all, the dog, doing of the canine education a game.

It consists basically of the overcoming on the part of the dog, without necklace and strap, of a series of obstacles very diverse-that are described in a regulation of international character, placed on a circuit in an order not known for both, until moments before the competition in which a brief recognition will be allowed the guide, with object of memorizar and planning the strategy to follow in the conduction of the dog.

One will be due to try to guide the dog with the greater clarity and exactitude throughout the route, being avoided to present/display to him as far as possible, situations of penalty risk on the obstacles or the produced one of exceeding the time marked by the judge of the test. For it all type of visual and sonorous signals like voices, palms can be used, etc. with the condition of voluntarily not touching to the dog or the obstacles.

That type of dogs can practice agility?

This discipline this opening to all the dogs without limitation of race, purity or size, on condition that of not suffering disease or physical defect that incapacitates them to run, to jump or to make exercise, the minimum age to begin to participate in the tests of agility is of 15 months. Agility is specially advised for those units that live in the great cities and pass great part of their time in reduced places, constituting for them a relief, a contact with its same types and the nature, in addition to a reason to establish relations of friendship between its owners and to stay in good form.

That previous knowledge must have the dog?

Before beginning to practice this sport it is necessary that the dog has a basic obedience having to begin its education when still is a puppy and not to hope to that it grows to correct customs badly acquired such as to allow that it moves away of exaggerated form and does not go when it is called to him, to leave makes its necessities within house, or to drag the guide when it leaves stroll, etc.

The participant dog will have to pass a track of obstacles, to the orders of the guide. The smaller used time, and the minimum penalties, are the base of the success, jumps, wheels, inclines, banks, balance beams, tunnels, etc., are some obstacles which the dog will have to face.

 

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