What are the contact obstacles in agility?
Alexie Orn
2025-07-13 00:11:00
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The ‘A’ Frame is a piece of equipment that looks exactly like the letter “A”.
Its purpose is to challenge the dog’s ability to walk up and down a 45 degree incline.
The bottom part of each ramp will be a different colour and your dog must put his two front paw’s on this part on the up ramp and his two rear paws when completing the down ramp of the obstacle.
This obstacles is known as ‘Contact Obstacles’.
The Dog Walk is another challenging piece of agility equipment, another contact obstacle.
Essentially like a balance beam, which will force the dog to practice his patience and balance while walking on it.
The same principle for mounting and dismounting the A Frame applies to the Dog Walk.
The See Saw is one of the more tricky pieces of dog agility training equipment.
The dog must climb up one side of the see saw, balance his weight appropriately in the middle in order for the other side to touch the ground, and then walk down that side of it.
This is the final piece of Contact Equipment.
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