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

[hycaliber]

I totally forgot about this!

[agilityfrk]

I had too, until a friend reminded me and now I am so damn curious...

[talesofmyboys]

The strategy seems to focus so much on including some people and then taunting the excluded people with all the "inner circle" type of crap. It's just not a nice way to live.

Awesome beach photo!

[ext_1660033]

"Inner Circle!" That's what her IC Peeps is!

I've been trying to figure out that secret term for awhile... :)

[talesofmyboys]

It's all so repulsively high school clique-ish.

[agilityfrk]

Yeah, but you can't taunt if you don't have something good. And it's been so quiet...

[foggydogs]

They are all doing 2o/2o :)

[moodypdx]

Haaaa

[agilityfrk]

With awesome nose touches no doubt. :)

[arisingprophet]

I laughed so hard at this, thank you.

[arisingprophet]

Okay, I am hella curious now too. I know they did the nondisclosure or whatever thing, I wonder if asking on FB could at least find someone that DID it. I recall she said it sold out (I think it was in the comments?) within the first day of the "special offer" being made. Hm.

Also, I'm curious: do you just not like Susan (I'll be honest, I don't), or just how.. money hungry she is?

[agilityfrk]

I am wary of slick marketing and a socialist at heart. ;) Susan is a brilliant dog trainer, I think there is a lot to admire in that and I also appreciate that she does not have a stable of dogs and has had great success with all the ones she has had. But $5000?!?!? That was so much money and then to hear nothing about how things turned out and no one seems to know anything, just weird.

[arisingprophet]

The only problem I can see with this is that if I was making as much money she is (and you know she's making a lot of money off dog folks), I think I could be a better dog trainer as well as have tons of success too. Not saying she bought her success - training dogs DOES require the time - but the fact that she lives her life around training her dogs and teaching people about it, well.. she has the wealth required to have all the equipment and what not, and the time (plus money is an excellent motivator) to do it

[agilityfrk]

I think to make that money, she's still working a lot. Or at least, when I looked into adding online classes to my schedule, I realized I would have to give up a good chunk of my regular classes to be able to do so and I like seeing students in the flesh. I have students that train way more than I do, but don't have the same results. I have students with full fields of equipment in their backyards and a schedule that allows them to train as much as they could possible want to, yet they still have fundamental holes in their skill sets. Training smart is more important than how much you can train.

[cedarfield]

Oooo! I so want to know what happened to them. I also forgot about it which I imagine is because they aren't too happy or she isn't too happy.

I'm so over all the marketing people are doing. I appreciate that they have to make a living in what is turning out to be a very competitive environment but the frenzy and angst over what is only a game we play with our dogs when there is so much suffering is kind of…repulsive.

[agilityfrk]

Yeah, the marketing seems a bit silly to me. But then, I am lucky to have regular access to equipment, a coach I trust and a handling style that works for me and my dogs, so I am not looking for change.

Still, I would love to know what $5000 got those folks.

[cedarfield]

I guess because I've been doing agility for so long, I see how this trend keeps repeating itself and I wonder why people don't see that it's just the same information presented in a much slicker way and for a lot more money.

[agilityfrk]

Yeah, the pattern is "blinds, rears, fronts, blinds, rears, fronts". The Rear Cross is due for a return. ;-)