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The Rally Course Book: A Guide To Akc Rally Courses | 
 enlarge | Author: Janice Dearth
Publisher: Alpine Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 246578
Media: Spiral-bound
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Pages: 91
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1577790677
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781577790679
ASIN: 1577790677
Publication Date: October 2004
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Book 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.
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 Good for Instructors October 12, 2007
This book is great. It has a course syllabus for instructors who want to teach rally. It also gives sample Rally courses so you can set up to practice. I am a beginner in Rally and classes are not offered near me. So this book helps me teach myself. It does NOT tell you how to teach the certain commands, but does describe the signs in detail.
Rally courses September 20, 2007
For someone who is interested in rally obedience this book is a must have.
The courses are set up and the instructions are printed with their numbers so they are easily found.
 Very Good But A Little Tacky July 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Great Guide April 10, 2007
This is a wonderful reference. Good details about the signs and what you and your dog need to do for each one. I'd highly recommend this book as a companion source to taking a rally class.
 possibly not what you are expecting... September 20, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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