Fostering Excellence in Agility

Fostering Excellence in Agility

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  • 1-TDC UKI Invitational Wrap Up

    In this episode, I share my thoughts and feelings about mine and Sprint's performance from the event, my training plans since then, and how I'm moving forward with our goals. I invite you to follow along post-run analyses and training sessions in the (free) Fans of FxAgility Community: https://www.fxagilityschool.com/signup

    29 min
  • Criteria Shifts Beyond the Acquisition Phase

    064 How do we continue to push our dog's understanding of the different obstacle cues and behaviors? By focusing on making training sessions intentionally different, we can expose our dogs to a wider variety of contexts and grow their capacity to perform the behavior under pressure in competition.

    17 min
  • Maintaining the Value of Our Reinforcers

    062 What holds more power for your dog, food, toys, or the agility obstacles? While we want the obstacles to be valuable to the dog, we need to maintain value and power for the reinforcers that we can more easily control: food and toys. Megan dives into habits around reinforcement that we can apply immediately in order to maintain and build value for our food and toys that we give our dogs during training.

    13 min
  • Which Way is Faster?

    061 In this episode, Megan explains the 3-point system for determining which path on course will be fastest, and how your individual dog fits into that guiding system.

    Checkout all the ways you can learn from Megan at www.fxagility.com and be sure to join the free community, Fans of FxAgility, where Megan shares her training, answers questions, and offers coaching calls for all members: www.fxagilityschool.com/signup

    12 min
  • Prerequisite Skills for Group Agility Classes

    060 In this episode, Megan expands on how to set dogs up for success when entering their first group classes in order to avoid problems. She gives ideas for group class instructors and individuals for focusing on the essential skills first and the agility skills second.

    14 min
  • Focus & Engagement Coaching Call

    059 This episode is from a Coaching Call inside Fans of FxAgility, a free community. Make sure you sign up to join the next coaching call! https://www.fxagilityschool.com/signup

    1 hr 5 min
  • "Over"-Arousal with Sarah Stremming

    058 In this special crossover episode with Cog-Dog Radio, Megan is joined by friend and colleague, Sarah Stremming to talk about every agility person's favorite buzzword: Arousal.

    59 min
  • Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone with Rose Cybulski

    057 In this episode, Megan is joined by the host of Before the Q, Rose Cybulski, to talk about stepping out of one's comfort zone and what the road to the 2026 Canadian Open might look like—interested in learning more?
    Check it out:

    Before the Q Podcast

    Watch Episode 2 of the Vlog!

    Support Rose & her projects

    36 min

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Megan Foster, Founder of Synergy Dog Sports and creator of Fostering Excellence in Agility, shares her passion, knowledge, tips and secrets for all things dog agility. Each episode, she will take you…

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