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Welcome to the useful stuff portal
Starting point for cool agility-related stuff that didn't fit into other places on our site

Contents

Getting started in agility

Agility links

Job descriptions for trials

  • For info on trial worker job descriptions and Show Committee job descriptions, see our Running a trial page.

Reading USDAA accumulator sheets

  • Everyone, especially starters/novice folks, have difficulty interpreting those accumulator sheets. Here's a PDF file suitable for printing and posting at your trials alongside the accumulator sheets.

Bay Area off leash hiking resources

Bay Area off leash hiking resources

Bay Area agility sites

Bay Team lost and found

  • See lost and found for a list of items found or lost at some of our trials.

Title crib sheets

Assorted useful agility stuff

Surveys of club members

  • Our June/Summer 2009 CPE entries are down 20% this year. How come? Why didn't you enter the summer CPE? (6/16/09)
  • What features make starters/newbies want to enter an event? Here's a poll of the club on what attracts novices to agility trials. (1/9/2009)
  • If the club were to host seminars, who would you like to see us bring in? Here's a poll of the club's Seminar wish list. (11/10/2008)
  • While discussing the first aid kit question, the question of whether to buy an AED/Defibrillator came up. Thank you very much to Terry LeClair who made a generous donation for an AED for the Bay Team, and to Wendy Bruce for stepping up to be the club's AED czar. Here is the meat of the defibrillator discussion. (9/11/08)
  • What should the club have in its event first aid kits? or, what should I have in my personal first aid kit? Here's a poll of the club on Suggested dog agility first-aid kit contents. (9/7/2008)
  • When our sister clubs in Southern California were scheduling a USDAA judges and course desgn clinic a few years ago, we asked our membership how many people would be interested in going to that, and whether we should offer one in NorCal. Here are the results of this Judges Clinic poll. (2/25/08)

Equipment and things

Inexpensive cones for home use

Ellen asked, I just want about 10-12 inexpensive cones for home use. Can even label them myself, just writing the numbers on. Purple would be nice. Suggestions? Here are the responses:

  • Several people (Carlene, Jim B, Gwen B, ...) recommended schoolmasters.com and wolverine sports--apparently they're just different names for the same company--and said that they have a variety of inexpensive cones. GwenB mentioned these as an example.
  • Several people (Ann D, Robert Y, ...) suggested hardware stores such as Home Depot and Orchard Supply. Suggestions for numbering included printing your own and having them laminated, buying laminated ones, buy decals for the #s in the post box section.
  • Several people suggested sporting goods stores:
    • Erika M: I got my cones from a soccer supply store - I think Wolverine Sports or something like that ... It was years ago. I also got purple which meant I needed to get white numbers or they wouldn't show up!
    • Tania C: Big 5...maybe $5 dollars for a set of 5 or 6.
    • Jim W: I got some cones from a sporting goods store here in Santa Cruz who supplies the soccer team. I don't remember the exact cost, but I'm thinking about a buck each. They only had orange.
  • Creative creation of cones from other materials:
    • Lorrayne B: You could grow some small pumpkins pretty cheap, but of course, that takes a while. I think that plastic funnels was a contender too, something you might use to poor oil in your car.
    • Ellen F: Ah ha! How about those plastic pots of various sizes that plants come in from nurseries? If you have some just sitting in your shed, you could write or tape numbers on those, and they're free! And they stack.
  • Garril P: I use Greg Larsen Sports, they sell haff(?) cones for a dollar each. GLSports. 800-950-3320. Also, Northern Tool & equipment has the 9" orange poluy cones: 4 for $7, now $6.49.

Just for fun

  • Click here to download a 10-second Quicktime animation of the original Bay Team logo doing agility. (Very cool! but 3.5 megabytes.) (By Corporate Images, Inc. of California)

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Animated GIF credits:

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