Product Description

This Rally Course book has been created in hopes that exhibitors, instructors, and judges will find it to be an education in teaching, designing, and judging Rally. Section One is aimed toward instructors. Section Two is about designing Rally courses and includes useable AKC Rally courses with Exhibitor sheets. Hopefully this book will stimulate your creative course-designing juices to go beyond the courses I’ve included. It should also help current judges save some time in designing courses.

The Rally signs in this book are the currently (2004) accepted AKC Non-Regular Obedience Class signs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #348708 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 91 pages

Review
"…the only informational book on rally obedience that includes usable courses and instructions on how to create new courses." -- (Dog & Kennel)

From the Author
I’ve had a good time designing this book! I believe it comes at a crucial time for Rally, as the AKC has now announced that Rally will be a titling class/event beginning January 1, 2005

At this writing I have judged over 800 handler/dog teams in AKC Rally venues over the last four years. I have used all the courses included in this book at one time or another. Feel free to copy these courses to use for your classes, judging, or seminars. Once you get the hand of it, you’ll have fun designing your own courses!

About the Author
AUTHOR: Janice Dearth AKC Non-Regular Obedience Class Judge, #19012 Applied—AKC Rally Judging Classes Titling Judge, all Rally Classes ASCA Obedience Judge, all Classes NADOI Endorsed Member, #737 N/O NADOI List Administrator, NADOI Board of Directors Pikes Peak Obedience Club, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO, Life Member

Customer Reviews

possibly not what you are expecting...
if you are looking for a lot of rally course diagrams plus the rules this is the book for you. but if you want a book that is the successor to kramer's rally books -- both editions being published prior to rally becoming an akc sanctioned event --- you may, as i was, be disappointed. this book is not what i expected - that being a definitive book with sections including not only detailed "how to's" on the exercises finally accepted by the akc at the three competitive levels of rally, but more importantly a detailed explanation of the possible errors and the applicable deductions. this info is available but it is scattered and to date not i don't believe included in a single document.on the other hand, if you are primarily looking for a lot of examples of possible rally courses then this is the book for you.

Very Good But A Little Tacky
This gives you lots and lots of courses that you can set up and practice on. The first few are just have right turns, the next few after that just have left turns, and from then on they all seem to have both. There are lots and lots of different courses for each level (Novice (N), Advanced (A), and Excellent (X)). They are all different and I think if you can do all the courses in this book at the level you will be competing (e.g. if you're going to be doing Novice then do all the novice ones) at then you are ready to go out and do the real thing.

This is not really a training book. For info on training, if you are JUST interested in making your dog obedient enough for Rally then just get Click Your Way to Rally Obedience by Pamela S. Dennison. If you plan to go on to regular obedience after this get Clicker Training for Obedience by Morgan Spector too and read them both at the same time. This way you can train percision from the start instead of having to go back after your dog's Rally career is over and fix things.

The graphics used to "prettify" the book (not the graphics used in the maps of courses for you to make) are pixelated which happens when an image is too small and you have to blow it up into a larger size. It makes it look somewhat tacky and less professional.

Rally Book
This is a great book. The author splits it up like the novice, advanced, and excellent course for course 1, and then the same for course 2 and so on. The only problem is that some of the courses are a bit hard to understand. The beginning of the book has detailed instructions for all of the excercises, as well as how to make your own course. Overall, I really liked this book, and is was a great help with training both my Bernese Mountain Dog and my pug.