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Instant Agility. It’s a blog that talks about agility equipment design and how to perform the obstacles. Most dogs love to work, and agility gives them a challenging and fun “job” to do. It can be a casual way for you and your dog to have fun in the backyard, or an intense activity performed [...]

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Buja Board

Why use a buja board? It’s an excellent way to get dogs used to something move under their feet. It’s small enough you can take it with you various places. You can use it as a starter for doing a table and a teeter. it helps your dog develop confidence in doing things even if [...]

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Make Your Own Metal Weave Poles

First off…here’s a PVC weave pole base. Jan says: I have made a metal base weave pole using 2 1/4″ aluminum flat bar. You can drill thru this with a regular drill. Right now I have just set it up with my stick in the ground weave poles going into the ground. It gives the [...]

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Tunnels – How to Stabilize them

Tunnels can be difficult to move and difficult to keep in place once you have them where you want them. Big dogs can shift them around, the wind can blow them out of place, and hard-hitting dogs can move them back a foot or two. So keeping them in place becomes important, particularly in a [...]

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Contact Surfaces for Agility Equipment

A question often raised is how does one make a good contact surface for agility equipment.   Equipment such as the aframe, table, teetertotter (seesaw), and dog walk. NADAC has approve a rubberized material for their contact equipment.  So if you are making trial quality equipment to their specs then you must follow their rules.     [...]

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Course Markers

People ask: what do folks use for cheap course markers? Any of the following: upside down pails – small ones like for sandboxes upside down flower pots wooden flats held together with a small piano hinge cones from dollar store rounds of PVC cut into 6-8 inch lengths go to a horse shop and buy [...]

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Cleaning Letters off of PVC

A question that often comes up on the agility building equipment lists that I am on is this: how does one clean the letters off of PVC in the easiest manner? Now, this is one of those things that for at home use only equipment I really don’t want to expend the energy on, but [...]

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Tape for Poles

Most agility organizations require that poles be taped for visibility. A question frequently asked is: where do we find the tape we need for taping? Locations dollar store hardware store printing shop home depot

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Making a Small Contact Trainer

From Karen through agility-equipment yahoo group Here are instructions for a small and cheap Contact Trainer I built to use in my living room. Perfect for practicing our 2-on/2-offs in the house! The dimensions are 2′x 2′when folded, and materials cost all of $33.75 at Home Depot. Feel free to fancy up my plans in [...]

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Making a Tire Jump

Tire jumps are one of the hardest pieces of equipment to make properly.   You do want to be careful with this one to make sure that it is built safely to prevent your dog from injuring him/herself. NADAC strongly promotes dog safety in it’s trials.   OF course that doesn’t mean that other organizations don’t.  But [...]

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