Running contacts...whatever happened to?

[agilityfrk]

I've been talking with friends a lot about running contacts lately and one question keeps coming up: Whatever happened to the $5000 running contact folks?

And a random beach pic, just because it's awesome.  :-)

Comments

[nosemovie]

Maybe for that $5000 they suck out your brain and re-program so you're never again able to discuss your contact training! Or ... maybe no one fell for it?

If I had $5000 to spend on contact training ALONE, I'd skip that investment and get me a really cool agility rig with fridge, A/c and built in kennels!

[agilityfrk]

Yeah, last night at class the discussion of what we would spend our money on, if we had so much that we would spend that much for running contacts. A personal chef, personal trainer, variety of cars, vacations etc etc.

Susan isn't the only trainer that requires secrecy from those she works with, but personally that is a big red flag for me.

[nosemovie]

agreed. or instructors/presenters that won't allow people to post videos of their OWN dogs working in a seminar. Geez, if I could train my dog to be AWESOME just by watching videos, I'd have a MACH 27 dog!

[cedarfield]

Amen!

[resom]

I saw someone ask on Facebook...made me laugh

Brit: "Hi! Was there an update on the running contact participants? I looked on the blog and couldn't find anything."

"Not sure what you are looking for Brit?"

Brit: "Didn't you hold a running contact workshop with a select few people? Where they had to fly up to your place? Or am I totally confused..??"

"Yep we did, about a year ago. Two of them started trialling their young dogs recently. But I really can't do too much "updating" as these people lead private lives (unlike people like me:))."

[nosemovie]

She could have saved herself a TON of typing by just responding:

"Hi, None of your beeswax..."

[agilityfrk]

Lol! A valid point, but the agility community isn't that big, surely someone knows one of the 5 and how they are doing, but no one seems to know. So weird.

[resom]

I'm hoping no one actually paid it and that's why nothing has been said about it

[agilejack]

You can have that information for a mere $988, or four installments of $400 each. Plus, you'll get all kinds of bonus materials... all of which has already been sold to you in the past.

[agilityfrk]

A bargain! Does all of this include a bridge too!

[arisingprophet]

I may be wrong, but I think I saw something where they had to sign an agreement about not telling what went on.

[agilityfrk]

Yeah, but you would expect someone to say, "thanks for my awesome running contacts, complete with turns!"

[aardogs]

Such an odd concept to me with people out there like Silvia who put their info out there for FREE for everyone--clearly she's doing pretty well despite this! Definitely different marketing strategies but I'd be very interested to at least see the product that came out of those $5,000 versus what came out of all those dogs out there (including many of ours on LJ) trained with free information.

[agilityfrk]

Exactly, as I am in the middle of my wimpy running contact plan (seriously not messing with turns off the dogwalk), I am curious how much "better" those folks are doing.