Recognising long-serving judges.

Our agility judges are volunteers and in 2017/2018 they have been recognised by the Agility Committee who gave them all a Jacket embroidered with Dogs NZ Agility Judge.

• Re-runs - notes for judges
• Judging agility in NZ (ver 2015). A publication outlining various roles and responsibilities of judges, including a discussion of challenges that judges can use in course design.
• Electronic Timing

Discussion and information on a variety of relevant issues.

• Click here- Wing_it_or_not
• Click here- Judging The_Weaving Poles
• Vol11- Games, seesaw, assembly areas, collapsible tunnels, start lines
• Vol10- Space in course design, Reminder, Mentors, Judging Games Part 1, Refusals
• Vol9- Distance between obstacles, Contracts & Mileage rate, New regulations(July 2013), results of poll, Making judging easier
• Vol8- Start lines, Lead-out challenges, # of contacts(poll), Tunnel huggers, Making courses easier to judge
• Vol7- Weave regs, Why use 25 obstacles, Long Jump, Rails, Tunnel safety

Older infoletters

• Vol6- Safe course design, touching the dog
• Vol5- Going up a panel, checking your course, connecting with competitors
• Vol4- Judges training, aggressive dogs, early starts
• Vol3 - Checking your course, Jumpers guidelines, Ring layout
• Vol2 - Walking the course, reruns, longjump and spread regs,timers
• Vol1 - Probationaries, running contacts

A collection of articles of interest to Judges.

• USDAA Course design guidelines
• Balanced course design, course design challenges
• Dress code, safe equipment placement
• Scrimers, Judges running dogs, good Jumpers courses
• Dealing with criticism, setting QCTs
• New timing rules, should you change your course time?
• Judging weaves & crossover, reruns, startlines
• Judging weave, dealing with complaints, poor equipment, training in the ring
• Games - from a judge and competitor point of view

A series of articles about how to design courses which you will love to judge and that others will love to run!!

• Creating balance in course design
• Senior to Jumpers A in 3 easy steps.
• Where did I come from - by Fiona Hodgson

Guidelines relating to the challenges and rate of travel for Jumpers classes.

• Jumps from the dog's perspective
• Jumpers Guidelines - Assistance for judges designing Jumpers courses. (NB: does not include reference to QCT & SCT calculations introduced July 2013)
• Timers - The Polaris booklet, operating instructions