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The Rally Course Book: A Guide To Akc Rally Courses | 
 enlarge | Author: Janice Dearth
Publisher: Alpine Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 255250
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 91
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 1577790677
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9781577790679
ASIN: 1577790677
Publication Date: October 2004
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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.
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 A great book for the beginner or advanced rally person November 24, 2008
Peggy S. Schmidt (NC)
This book is a great reference book for the beginner or advanced rally person. It gives a detailed explanation of each sign. Then gives a right-hand turn step by step course to teach the dog very systematically. Followed by a left-hand turn step by step course. An all around excellent book.
Good for Instructors October 12, 2007
S. Willard (Puerto Rico)
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
C. Moore
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 6, 2007
E. Hughes (CA United States)
2 out of 2 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
Uncommon Loon (Colorado Springs, CO United States)
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.
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