Agility Titles

[RachelleBuck]

Sway thread got me thinking.

What do all the differant agility titles mean???

IE: AD SP SPD and so on

thanks

[Vickie]

Novice titles are:

AD - agility dog

JD - jumping dog

SD - Snooker dog

SPD - Strategic pairs dog

GX - Gamblers dog

you need 3 passes to get each of these

Excellent titles are as above with an X on the end & you need 5 passes to title

Masters have an M on the end & you need 7 passes for a title.

Then there are ADO & JDO for the open titles, you need 5 of these & they are supposed to be courses set at Excellent level with a distance component. You cannot enter Excellent till you have your Novice, cannot enter Masters till you have your Excellent. Open is open to everyone.

[RachelleBuck]

Thanks for that what what is the differance between the each of them. IE: how does jumping and snooker and gamblers differ from normal agility

[Tassie]

In ANKC, Jumping is just jumps and tunnels - i.e. no weavers (except in Open Jumping) and no contact obstacles. Therefore, course times are lower - rate of travel is higher. Agility includes weavers at all levels, contact obstacles (seesaw not until Excellent and above.)

Strategic Pairs course needs to be completed by the 2 dog/handler teams between them - but each dog doesn't do each obstacle. There must be 2 swaps, but may be more. If one dog faults an obstacle, the other team must go in and do the obstacle successfully before, and if that one faults, then the first one comes back to fix it. If you're having a bad day, this can go on for a while.

Snooker - has reds (single bars) and colours (other obstacles, worth different points. In the opening sequence, dog/handler team takes a red, colour, red, colour, reed colour - then proceeds to designated closing sequence which must be competed in order.

Gamblers - handler 'designs' own course from what's out there, with the aim of accumulating as many points as possible, within a prescribed time - then does the closing seequence which is distance handling (similar to Open).

Does that help?

Oh, and Masters and Open titles can be multiplied - so for example, first 5 passes in JDO = JDO, next 5 = JDO2.

You can find the ANKC rules here.

[poodlefan]

Tassie:

Strategic Pairs course needs to be completed by the 2 dog/handler teams between them - but each dog doesn't do each obstacle. There must be 2 swaps, but may be more. If one dog faults an obstacle, the other team must go in and do the obstacle successfully before, and if that one faults, then the first one comes back to fix it. If you're having a bad day, this can go on for a while.

But if you're having a bad day, you're generally providing excellent entertainment for your fellow competitors. Strategic pairs is a lot of fun as a handler but even better as a spectator I reckon - especially when it goes wrong.

[Tassie]

:p You're so very right Poodlefan - (and you haven't even seen my Kirra and her partner Mollie running together .) Her mum and I are having T shirts made with our pairs name "Ancient Women". When one of the dogs gets it wrong, the other often will - like 5 goes to get the weavers (!), or 4 to get the DW. It's quite hysterical - especially when both dogs are running a sequence together, and the judge has lost track of which dog actually went over the obstacle, since 2 B/W rough coated BCs look quite similar in motion. Luckily, we're too old to take ourselves too seriously.

Clean pairs runs are very nice to watch - but not half as much fun.

[poodlefan]

There have been some recent pairs runs turn into uncontrollable zoomies here (and they weren't novice dogs).. even the judge was laughing.

Edited August 14, 2008 by poodlefan

[RachelleBuck]

Yes that was what i was after.

thanks so much for your help guys.

[Guest rhapsodical78]

Excellent, concise explanations. Well done, guys.

[SSS]

Tassie:

Strategic Pairs course needs to be completed by the 2 dog/handler teams between them - but each dog doesn't do each obstacle. There must be 2 swaps, but may be more. If one dog faults an obstacle, the other team must go in and do the obstacle successfully before, and if that one faults, then the first one comes back to fix it. If you're having a bad day, this can go on for a while.

But if you're having a bad day, you're generally providing excellent entertainment for your fellow competitors. :p Strategic pairs is a lot of fun as a handler but even better as a spectator I reckon - especially when it goes wrong.

:rofl: SP can be hysterical I love watching it

[OSoSwift]

I have been wondering the very same thing, so thanks for the info, might have to get into pairs, who wants to partner a slightly blonde whippet with a tendancy to get distracted and when she thinks she's done very well, has to do a flat out zoomie bog lap to celebrate?

[alanglen]

I love the pairs so much, I would gladly start all the titles again!!! SP in agility and jumping and go throught the levels again! pairs doing gamblers would be hysterical!! I have two teams on the go with my two dogs and we have lots of fun! More fun than just agility on our own these days!! And my girls adore having a mate to celebrate with whilst we fumble for leads!