Webinar Recording
How many runs have you wasted because of mental overload? How much frustration did it cause for you? How about your dog? Can they count on you to give them the correct information at the correct moment? Learn mental techniques used by Olympic athletes to finally stay sharp on the course and recall every cue exactly when you need it!
We’ll cover:
👉 Brain systems: visual processing, short-term memory, decision-making, procedural memory
👉 Mental warm-up vs. priming exercises (yes, there’s a difference!)
👉 Techniques to lower cognitive load
👉 Shifting into high processing speed
👉 Mental routines for better focus
👉 Mistakes prevention and mitigation strategies
No more:
✗ Refusals and off-courses caused by mental overload
✗ Losing focus when your dog drops a bar or misses a contact
✗ Forgetting your cues mid-course
✗ Mixing up your obstacle cues
✗ Confusing your dog with frantic handling
✅ Proven – techniques used by Olympic athletes
✅ Easy – no training required, you can apply at your next competition
✅ Fast – get a mental boost after just a couple of minutes of practice
✅ Powerful – freed mental energy you can use to improve your precision
$59 early bird ends Jan 18th, regular $79
*Much less than what all those messed up runs cost you!
I used to really struggle with mental overload during my runs. When running Beauvais, one of the fastest agility dogs in the United States, all my brainpower went into basics – running, following the course, and hopefully pointing at the correct obstacles. Forget the verbals! By obstacle number five, I was already struggling to remember what I called the next obstacle. A couple of obstacles later, all cues became “hop,” no matter if it was actually a jump or a tunnel. Left and right became interestingly interchangeable, and my overwhelmed brain decided to leave the ring and book a one-way ticket to a meditation retreat in the Himalayas to ponder its life choices. Oh well… I thought my brain just couldn’t process all the information at such speed.
Wrong. It certainly could. It just wasn’t used to it!
It took me quite a lot of unsuccessful runs to get frustrated enough to decide that there absolutely had to be a better way. I looked into other sports, did some research, and of course it turned out to be a learnable skill – exercises for the brain! I tried different ideas used by Olympic athletes and World Champions in various disciplines, refined them for agility application, and chose the ones that gave the best results.
Now I have a toolbox of techniques to get my brain ready for the run. Finally, the correct verbal cues pop into my head when I need them and I don’t end up with refusals and off-courses just because I can’t think fast enough. Since then, I’ve shared these techniques with other handlers facing similar challenges and got a lot of positive feedback – whether they’re running super-fast dogs like I am, or they’re unfocused due to stress, or even dealing with ADHD.
In this webinar, I’ll share with you the techniques I now use to stay sharp while handling my speedy beast on the course! Practice them and apply at your next competition for an immediate boost.
$59 early bird ends Jan 18th, regular $79
*Much less than what all those messed up runs cost you!