Agility Challenge Tip #10: Honor The Hard Skills
We've been talking about hard skills and soft skills as though they're entirely separate, but in reality, most talents are not exclusively one or the other. They're some combination of the two. You ha...
4 Mar 20249min
Agility Challenge Tip #9 – To build soft skills, play like a skateboarder
To build soft skills you should behave less like a careful carpenter and more like a skateboarder in a skateboard park: aggressive, curious, and experimental, always seeking new ways to challenge your...
26 Feb 202411min
Agility Challenge Tip #8 – Work Like A Careful Carpenter
To develop reliable hard skills, you have to connect the right wires in your brain. You want to be careful, slow, and highly aware of errors. You want to work like a careful carpenter. Dig more in to ...
19 Feb 20246min
Agility Challenge Tip #7: Figure out if it’s a hard or soft skill
The first step toward building a skill is to figure out exactly what type of skill you're building. Every skill falls into one of two categories: hard skills and soft skills. This tip comes from Danie...
12 Feb 202411min
Agility Challenge Tip #6: Choose Spartan Over Luxurious
It's tempting to think that if we don't have the latest and greatest this or that, we'll never be successful. If we don't have the latest and greatest dog toy, how will our dog ever be as motivated as...
5 Feb 20245min
Agility Challenge Tip #5 – Be Willing To Be Foolish
Top performers are willing to fail, and they’re willing to do so repeatedly in the name of improvement. So, how do you ensure that you’re always comfortable looking silly, or foolish, or stupid? How c...
29 Jan 20249min
Agility Challenge Tip #4 – Steal Without Apology
The idea that talented handlers get their skill by following their “natural instincts” is baloney. This is good news for all of us – there is no “natural instinct” for dog agility. ALL improvement is ...
22 Jan 20248min
Episode 24: You think YOU’RE struggling with your mental game? What about your DOG?
In this episode of The Agility Challenge Podcast, Daisy interviews Kelly Daniel of Hybrid Dog Training. Kelly lives in New Zealand, where she teaches canine fitness, dog agility, and secondary school ...
17 Jan 202444min
