Beginning Agility Our six-week Beginning Agility course is designed to introduce your dog to each of the individual agility obstacles with safety, fun, and competitive excellence in mind. All work is on-lead, and no previous obedience or agility experience is required. The classes meet on Thursday nights from 7 - 8 PM and from 8:30 - 9:30 PM. The fee for the course is $130. Beginning Agility is held twice per year, beginning in January and June. Printable Enrollment Form Intermediate 1 Agility This eight-week course focuses on distance work on obstacles and learning to sequence smoothly from one obstacle to the next. In Intermediate 1 Agility, students learn to give timely commands, to provide consistent and smooth body cues, and to develop teamwork with their dogs. Handlers also develop the ability to switch smoothly from handling their dogs off one side to handling off the other in the middle of a sequence. To enroll in Intermediate 1 Agility, your dog must have successfully completed our Beginning Agility course or have proven his ability to perform each of the agility obstacles through a private lesson with a member of our staff. All sequencing is performed off-lead, therefore, your dog also must be able to sit, stay, down, and come on command, off-lead with a variety of distractions present. Even if you have already started training obstacles on your own or with another training organization, we almost always require that you start your training at FlashPaws with the Beginning Agility class, so you will have the same foundation as the other students in the Intermediate class. Intermediate classes meet on Thursday nights from 7 - 8 PM and from 8:30 - 9:30 PM. The fee for the course is $175. Intermediate 1 Agility is offered twice per year, starting around February and September. Printable Enrollment Form On the last night of Intermediate class, students run a simple course to assess their readiness to progress to the next level. Intermediate 2 Agility This six-week course follows the Intermediate Agility class and provides additional practice on longer and increasingly complex sequences. On the last night of Intermediate 2 class, students run a simple course to assess their readiness to progress to the next level. Those who are most ready to advance are offered available slots in the Starters/Novice Competition Agility classes. Some handlers who are ready will be placed on a waiting list until additional spaces open up. Handlers who are not ready will need to repeat Intermediate Agility and/or Intermediate 2 Agility. Reasons for repeating may include obedience deficiencies or confidence problems on the part of the dog. In other instances, the dog may be doing well but the handler needs more practice with sequencing. Intermediate 2 classes meet on Thursday nights from 7 - 8 PM and from 8:30 - 9:30 PM. The fee for the course is $130. Intermediate 2 is offered twice per year, starting around April and October. Printable Enrollment Form Competition Agility Classes Competition Agility classes are ongoing with no beginning or ending date. All of our competition classes follow a format of Course weeks alternating with Exercise weeks. On Course weeks, students gain ring experience by running a regulation agility course. To develop the student’s ability to formulate handling strategies, handling options are discussed as the class walks the course together. Students run the course twice to implement improvements or to experiment with alternative handling strategies. On Exercise Weeks, students rotate through a series of workstations designed to strengthen specific dog and handler skills. The fee for all competition agility classes is $65 per month for a once-per-week class. The fee for the second dog in your immediate household is $50 and each additional dog is $40 per month. For all competition agility classes, admission is by permission only and on a space-available basis. We have found that those who begin their agility training elsewhere do not have the foundation skills necessary to keep up with those who started at FlashPaws. Therefore, we generally do not accept new members into competition classes unless they have completed FlashPaws Intermediate II Agility, or have taken one or more private lessons at FlashPaws. Once you are admitted to competition-level classes, you are considered a "member." Members receive a monthly newsletter as well as other benefits of membership. Our competition class schedule is as follows: Monday: 7:30 - 9:00 PM Masters Tuesday: 9 - 10:30 AM Advanced/Masters 7 - 8 PM Advanced 8:30 - 9:30 PM Advanced Wednesday: 9 - 10:30 AM Advanced 7 - 8 PM Novice 8:30 - 9:30 PM Novice Thursday: 9:00 - 10:30 AM Novice

FlashPaws Productions
7714 Rolling Fork Lane
Houston, TX 77040
(713)896-8484
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