Want the chance to train with Amanda Shyne from the comfort of your own home? Then our online classes are perfect you! We offer a variety of topics throughout the year and provide great feedback. Check back in for new topics and courses.
Online Courses – Starting January 2026
OBSTACLE COMMITMENT
8 Week Course
Working & Auditing spots available
FLASHY FOUNDATIONS
8 Week Course
Working & Auditing spots available
All classes are held within a private FB group where you can post videos, comments and questions. In return, you will be receive video voiceover feedback from Amanda Shyne. Any questions? Email seminars@datadrivenagility.com
Obstacle Commitment
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Class starts FEBRUARY 1
Exercises to improve your dog’s obstacle commitment – perfect for dogs of all ages and skill levels. If your dog has ever thought that the jump was optional, this is the class for you!
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Working Spot $200
Auditing Spot $135
What agility equipment do I need?
- 2-3 jumps
- a tunnel (or a cone/tree/barrel to send the dog around)
Optional: rabbit fencing (to block incorrect obstacles and help dog be right)
How much space do I need?
A small yard with enough space for 2-3 jumps and a tunnel.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Flashy Foundations
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Class starts FEBRUARY 1
Ever feel like you need to revisit the basics that you haven’t done in while? Want to brush up on those foundations and make them super strong skills? You have come to the right spot!
This class is geared towards agility dogs that already have some experience in the game. Whether you have younger dog that has worked through a bunch of foundations or a dog that has been competing for some time, come join us! Each week we will focus on 3 targeted skills: Body Awareness, Self-Control, & Opposing Motion.
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Working Spot $200
Auditing Spot $135
Is there an age limit for this class?
Any age is fine! But this course is best suited for dogs that already have general foundation training and area looking to sharpen their skills.
What agility equipment do I need?
TBD
How much space do I need?
TBD
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Weave Skills
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Classes Start MARCH 4th
The exercises are designed for handlers who have already trained their dogs to weave 12 poles, but who want their dogs to be faster, more independent, more accurate, and more consistent while in the weave poles—handlers who want their motion and direction of motion to have nothing to do with the speed or confidence with which their dogs complete the poles.
In this course, we will work on:
- Entries
- Exits
- Independence
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Working Spot $200
Auditing Spot $135
What agility equipment do I need?
For this course, you will need weave poles, 1 jump, and a short tunnel. Most drills will only be using a set of 6 poles. (For drills that are shown with 12 poles, they can be re-formatted for 6 poles if space is limited)
How much space do I need?
All drills can be done with minimal space. If you have access to a larger space for some drills, we will adjust!
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Other Classes
(Not Currently Offered, But Will Be Again Soon!)
Verbals
Course not in session
In today’s agility courses, it is only proving how necessary it is to have some skills confidently used on a verbal. Whether you are ready to start these verbal skills for the first time, or ready to challenge and proof your skills, this course is for you.
In this course, we will work on:
- Threadle Wraps
- Wrap on a jump
- S curve into a tunnel
- Verbal backside
- Look
- Test discrimination between Jump, Tunnel & Weave
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
What skills will be worked on?
Topic description coming soon
What agility equipment do I need?
For this course, you will need 2-3 jumps, a short tunnel, and a set of 6 weave poles.
How much space do I need?
For the majority of exercises, a small yard with enough space for 2-3 jumps and a tunnel.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Jump into My Arms
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6 Week Course – 5 assignments
(This leaves 1 week to work through any challenges)
Working spots only
No limits of number of spots
Jump into My Arms is one of my favorite tricks to teach my smaller/lighter dogs! It is a great way to regain control at the end of an agility run (or between turns in class when you need to talk to your instructor). For dogs that end up LOVING this trick, it also serves as an alternative to a recall cue.
Unlike other methods of teaching this trick, I teach the dog to jump up from your side. This prevents you from being gut punched by your dog when you aren’t expecting to catch them. (Ask me how I learned this.)
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Can any dog learn this trick?
Yes, but not every human is going to want to catch them! This trick works best for small dogs or lightweight tall dogs.
What equipment do I need?
Nothing that you don’t have around the house. Scrounge up things you can sit on that are of various heights (stools, ottomans, benches, etc.)
How much space do I need?
I filmed most of these videos in my very small living room.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Advanced Obstacle Commitment (repeat)
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Advanced obstacle commitment will focus on verbal commitment to various obstacles, and sometimes, the specific way to take the obstacle (for example, backside slices).
The first course (in the series) will focus on:
1. Verbal discrimination between the tunnel, the front side of the jump, the backside of the jump, and the weave poles. (We will not work the threadle wrap cue (flick) which is included in the 2nd Advanced OC class.)
2. The verbal threadle slice cue, often called, “in in.”
3. Huge forward sends, with off course possibilities. Don’t need flat ground or normal agility spacing — just a safe place you can bring a cone and a jump and let your pup off leash (narrow and long is perfect). I used a dead end dirt road.
4. Directional cues (right and left). If your pup already has both – great – we will strengthen them! If they don’t have directionals, we will teach one and use that in the course. Then, you can go back and teach the 2nd direction while taking Advanced OC 2!
4. Distracting opposing motion.
5. Verbal backsides with supportive motion, neutral support, and conflicting body motion. (This forces our dogs to rely entirely on the verbal cue.)
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Is Obstacle Commitment 1/2 a prerequisite?
Nope! But your dog should be comfortable doing sequences with backsides and threadles and have some introduction to verbal cues.
What agility equipment do I need?
- 2-3 jumps
- a tunnel
Optional: rabbit fencing (to block incorrect obstacles and help dog be right)
How much space do I need?
For the majority of exercises, a small yard with enough space for 2-3 jumps and a tunnel.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Puppy Agility Foundations
Course not in session
Starting a new agility dog (puppy or adult!) and need some guidance or some motivation to get off the couch and train?
This class will have access to all of my favorite puppy agility foundation exercise videos – body awareness, come to hand, forward focus, wrapping cones/wings, working for toys, beginning directionals, send to target, and more.
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
How old do puppies need to be?
Any age is fine! Work at your puppy’s pace – super short training sessions are best.
What agility equipment do I need?
This class uses mostly things you can find around the house. You can use a jump wing or a cone if you want (but I sometimes use a potted plant!). Any sorts of platforms, targets, etc that you have are perfect!
If your puppy is old enough to jump, there are some exercises where you can use a low jump.
How much space do I need?
Not much at all! Most of these exercises are things you can do in the house or in a small yard.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Foundations for GREAT Running Contacts (repeat)
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This class is designed for dogs beginning their running contacts training. The focus of the class is to clarify the dog’s responsibility for hitting the target location. The exercises build motivation and intent for hitting the target. Dogs will learn to drive to their location with distracting rewards, opposing handler motion, and off-course possibilities. Over the span of the course some dogs will progress to exercises with the dog walk (or a plank) but the majority of the exercises require only a mat (sometimes we will use cones or jumps in combination with the mat).
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Is there an age limit for this class?
Nope! Flatwork can be done with young dogs!
What agility equipment do I need?
- a target mat (carpet, yoga mat, rubber mat, etc)
- 1-2 cones and/or jumps
- Optional: a short plank, dog walk plank, or teeter plank
How much space do I need?
For the early exercises, not much space at all! But eventually you will need enough space for your dog to build up speed.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
Advanced Obstacle Commitment 2 (NEW)
Course not in session
Advanced obstacle commitment will focus on verbal commitment to various obstacles, and sometimes, the specific way to take the obstacle (for example, backside slices).
The second course (in the series) will focus on:
- The S curve tunnel verbal. (This includes bypassing the other (possibly more obvious) entrance of the tunnel, to rear cross into the S curve.)
- Verbal layering
- Weaves versus jumps and tunnels at speed. (Primary when pup needs to layer the incorrect obstacle.)
- Contacts versus tunnel discriminations (with and without speed).
- Threadle wrap verbal (flick).
- Verbal, “Out”
- Verbal sends
- Tunnel break
- Verbal discrimination between the tunnel, the front side of the jump, the backside of the jump, and the weave poles and the threadle wrap cue (flick).
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Is Advanced Obstacle Commitment 1 a prerequisite?
No, but it may be helpful to join (or audit) that class if you haven’t yet.
What agility equipment do I need?
- Minimum – 2-3 jumps, a tunnel, and 6 weaves
- There are exercises that include layering the dog walk, but you could get creative in putting something else there to layer!
Optional: rabbit fencing (to block incorrect obstacles and help dog be right)
How much space do I need?
For the majority of exercises, a small yard with enough space for 2-3 jumps and a tunnel.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
GREAT Running Contacts 2 (NEW)
Course not in session
This class is designed for dogs who already have a basic understanding of the running contact. They are motivated to hit the mat when it is on the ground and on the board. The exercises in this class will build motivation and intent for hitting the target. Dogs will learn to drive to their target even with distracting rewards, opposing handler motion, and off-course possibilities. The dogs will also work the various different exits off the dogwalk.
All students will receive:
- Access to video tutorials for each assignment
- Access to the class Facebook group to watch videos of your classmates’ dogs, ask questions, and cheer each other on.
Working teams will receive:
- Personal voiceover feedback on your assignment videos to help you and your dog get the most out of each exercise.
Is there an age limit for this class?
At your discretion based on your dog’s body awareness and how well they’ve done at the Foundations exercises. For some pups, it is better to keep working on the exercises in Level 1.
What agility equipment do I need?
- a target mat (carpet, yoga mat, rubber mat, etc)
- 1-2 jumps
- tunnel
- Access to a full size dog walk
How much space do I need?
Enough space for a dog walk with 20 ft of space for approach and exit. (You can make it work with only 20 ft of space on one end, though.)
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
One More Month: Class Extension
(Coming back soon!)
Need more time to work on your homework?
You can use OMM to receive feedback and coaching on homework from ANY PREVIOUS CLASS you have taken.
You can also use OMM to get feedback on videos from recent agility trials.
Post your videos in the Facebook Living Room group so everything is in one place for Amanda to find.
(Coming back soon!)Any previous class?
Yes. No matter how old. And if you’d rather use OMM to get some feedback on trial videos, you can do that too.
How many videos can I submit?
You can submit up to three 2-minute videos per week, or a total of 24 minutes of video.
Can I submit for more than one dog?
Yes! If you anticipate needing to submit more than 24 minutes of video total, then you can purchase a second OMM for the other dog.
What technical equipment do I need?
If you would like to submit videos for review, you will need a way to record, edit, and post your videos to Facebook.
Most students use their smartphone or tablet and apps like iMovie or KINEMASTER.
