Foundation Work: Go-Outs

We've been working on "go-outs" this past week. This exercise teaches me to work away from "the handler" and is a foundation exercise for agility and other sports. Among other things, it helps to keep my spine supple so I can wrap tightly around a jump standard when necessary. I started learning this exercise up close to the cone. Once I understood the exercise, distance was added a few inches at a time (the deck boards come in handy for visualizing distance).  In this video, I am being sent to the cone from between 30" & 42" away (measuring from tip of boot to the cone). Once the cone is moved off the deck, the distance will gradually be increased to several feet/yards. Although you see me wrapping the cone L, R, L then R, I usually work both sides in a more random fashion.