Course Details
Ask any competitor, from any sport and they will tell you: the difference between good competitors and great competitors is mindset. When it comes down to it, all the technical training in the world will not help you with the ability to focus and get in the zone on the day of the trial. Just like we train our dogs how to focus and stay level-headed in the busy dog show environment, we need to teach ourselves those skills!
This class is for any dog sport competitor, or anyone thinking about competing in dog sports. This class will hone in on what’s important to you and your team as you work through goal setting, competition timelines, boundary setting, dealing with failure, and taking care of your team during competitions.
Throughout the class, students will get to learn about my own mental management journey and work on the skills that I have found most helpful in my competitive career. The best part is, these skills can be generalized to ANY dog sport, and really, any part of life.
If you are standing in the way of your team’s success, this class is for you! If you are ready to rewire your brain for the better, this class is for you!
If you are ready to level up in your sport, this class is for you!
Join me to take a deep dive into why you compete in dog sports and how you can be a better competitor for yourself AND your dog.
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Syllabus
- Owning Your Competitiveness
1.1 What Kind of Competitor Do You Want to Be?
- Your WHY
2.1 Your Best and Worst Day of Agility…
- Strengths list
- Goal Setting
4.1 Big Picture Goals
4.2 Do your expectations match your effort?
4.3 Go after your goals - not someone else’s!
- Training and Competition Timelines
5.1 Preparing for the Unexpected
- Training Plans
6.1 Record Keeping
- Analyzing Videos
7.1 Training & Competition Videos: When, where, why, & how?
7.3 Highlight Reels
- Curious vs Critical
- Focus: Get in the Zone
9.1 Your Cognitive Load
9.2 Setting Boundaries
9.3 But they’re watching me…
- Walking the Course
10.1 Visualization techniques
10.2 Your Plan: Are you “saving” the run or sabotaging it?
- What Can You Control?
11.1 The Almighty “Q”
11.2 Your Clear Round Rulebook
- Failure
12.1 Meanings = Emotions
12.2 Failure is not the end of the story
Prerequisites and Equipment
There are no prerequisites. You need note-taking supplies, time to process & reflect, and an open-mind that’s ready for growth and change!
Sample Lecture
5.1 Preparing for the Unexpected
After reading about timelines and starting to put together your one, three, and maybe even five-year competition plans, you’re all probably wondering about one thing: what about things we can’t predict?
We can plan until the cows come home, but at the end of the day, we can’t plan for injury, job changes, natural disasters, or pandemics. We must breathe and accept the things that we cannot control (more on that later).
If you only plan the short term, and something gets in your way, it is going to hit you MUCH harder, because what is there to look forward to? However, if you have three - five years planned out (and remember, that includes planning a PUPPY), then a cancelled event in the programming doesn’t leave you devastated. Sure, it stings - but you still have so much to look forward to.
When we are reacting and adjusting to changes in our timeline, we can look back, own our competitive nature, give ourselves the time for a pity party and then decide what we are going to do about it.
We also cannot always control the timeline of the dog. You can have your best intentions set, and the dog just needs more time.
This is why we video, analyze, take notes, and make changes as we see them coming. The more prepared you are, the easier these curveballs are to hit out of the park.
If you are proactive in watching your training videos and making adjustments to your training plans in the moment, you are not blindsided by a behavior “suddenly” falling apart.
There are so many things in life we cannot control, but we can control our reactions to the things that happen to us.
Assignment:
- Look back on your (non-dogsport) life and think of a time that life threw you a curveball. Something changed suddenly that you had to reroute your plans around. How did you find a way forward? How did you end up better for it on the other side?
- Now, apply that to your situation today with your current dog sport. We had a pandemic thrown our way. Events were cancelled. How are we going to find a way forward? How are we going to end up better for it on the other side?
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New class for the June 2020 session.
Registration
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Registration opens at 10:30am Pacific Time.
EL140 Subscriptions
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| Tuition | $ 260.00 | $ 130.00 | $ 65.00 |
| Enrollment Limits | 12 | 25 | Unlimited |
| Access all course lectures and materials | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Access to discussion and homework forums | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Read all posted questions and answers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Watch all posted videos | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Post general questions to Discussion forum | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
| Submit written assignments | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ |
| Post dog specific questions | ✔ | With video only | ✖ |
| Post videos | ✔ | Up to 2 | ✖ |
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