I am working handling drills and yesterday (since I had free time), I stopped short and had to ask myself a few questions - since I didn't know the answers I thought I might run them by you 
I have an obedience and agility background where you work specific skills for short periods of time and then either rest your dog or move on to exercises that are different from what was just worked.
So, yesterday I was working on T with 2 of my dogs. I was thinking about wagon wheel work next, but switched off to agility with all 3 dogs since I was not confident if T and wagon wheels should be worked close together.
My questions all relate to generally, how do you work on drills - do you intersperse the drills with other activities or do you do similar drills close together?
Do you kind of bundle the handling skills together, or work say handling, then marking, then obedience back to another handling skill etc.?
Do you work the drills on a rotational basis or do you come close to perfecting a drill and then move that drill to maintenance mode while you begin a new skill/drill?
Thanks for any insights.
I have an obedience and agility background where you work specific skills for short periods of time and then either rest your dog or move on to exercises that are different from what was just worked.
So, yesterday I was working on T with 2 of my dogs. I was thinking about wagon wheel work next, but switched off to agility with all 3 dogs since I was not confident if T and wagon wheels should be worked close together.
My questions all relate to generally, how do you work on drills - do you intersperse the drills with other activities or do you do similar drills close together?
Do you kind of bundle the handling skills together, or work say handling, then marking, then obedience back to another handling skill etc.?
Do you work the drills on a rotational basis or do you come close to perfecting a drill and then move that drill to maintenance mode while you begin a new skill/drill?
Thanks for any insights.
