Purchasing agility equipment can quickly become a major expense. There are several ways that you can build a course right in your own backyard using materials purchased from a hardware supply store. Building your own agility equipment can be a fun and rewarding experience. Once your obstacles are complete and set up, your dog will be able to practice running the course whenever the desire strikes. Big trial coming up? Now you have a place to run your dog and get him in prime condition to take the title!
Jumping
Building a jump is something that does not have to be time consuming. If fact, you can build a bar jump in about 30 minutes.
Materials:
-Hammer
-One 6' Length of Threaded Steel Rod (3/4” diameter), cut in half
-2 Lengths of 4 ft PVC Pipe
-1 Lengths of 5 ft PVC Pipe
-2 Bolts (¼” Thread Diameter)
-2 Conduit Clamps
-2 Single Hole Conduit Straps (Capable of Holding 1 ½” Conduit)
-Colored Tape
Place the three foot long pieces of steel rod exactly 4 ft apart and hammer into the ground approximately 12” deep (making sure no underground gas lines or electrical wires are in your striking path). Place each 4 ft length of PVC over the rod that remains above ground. Mark each piece of PVC with the competition jump heights. Slip each conduit clamp over a section of the (now upright) PVC and tighten at the needed jump height with the mounting hole facing the exit side of the bar jump. Bolt each conduit strap, with the 'hook' facing out, to the mounting hole of the clamp. This forms a rest on which the jump bar will sit. Rest the 5 ft length of PVC on the conduit straps. Decorate bar with strips of tape. You have just assembled a homemade bar jump. Optional: Add additional clamps and straps so that you may have more than ...
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...ounter-sinking slightly so that the dog will not injure his paw. Mix the qt of paint with ½ cup of sand. Paint the surface area of the plywood. Let dry well. A second coat may be added if desired. Dry for several days before using. Assemble concrete blocks in three rows of four blocks, so as to form a 4' x 4' square which is 8” high. Place plywood on top. Depending on your dog's jump height, you may need to alter the configuration to be lower or higher. If lower, use patio pavers to form the base in lieu of larger blocks. If higher, stack pavers or additional blocks on top of the first layer of concrete. Make sure the second layer is cross wise to the first layer so that the dog's weight is evenly distributed. .
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After choosing all the proper equipment, it is now time to approach the lift. The lift assistant will line you into the path of the chair. Lean back as you feel the chair picking you up. Grasp the handlebars of the chair as it lifts you. Failure to do this will cause you to fall off and you could get ran over by the chair (This knowledge comes from a very humiliating personal experience). The ride on the lift takes about five to ten minutes, but this depends on which run you choose. As you approach the end of the lift, it is advised to signal the assistant to slow the lift down. Most beginners find the lift runs too fast to exit safely. Sit on the edge of the chair and ski off to the start of the run.
As we worked on our Rube Goldberg Machine, we uncovered the physics that was taking place. Many aspects of physics come into play when building and testing a Rube Goldberg Machine. Some examples are Newton’s three laws, collisions, conservation of momentum, efficiencies, forces, energy, work, simple machines, and projectiles.
If the jump that you need to clear is 20 feet long you will have to be going at a certain speed. So, what is that speed? Well you can figure this out by knowing what angle you built the jump at, the height of the jump and the distance to the landing. It is fairly easy to find the velocity by using the equation for a trajectory.
...ject’s/object’s weight multiplied by the velocity the subject/object is moving at, squared. In order for the broad jumper to increase the change in kinetic energy he/she needs to produce a faster velocity. This would mean he/she would have to produce a quick and efficient transition from flexion to extension at the beginning of the broad jump. Potential energy is defined as the amount of energy that is “stored” within a subject or object. The mathematical formula for potential energy is PE=mgh, where “m” mass, “g” is the acceleration of gravity (9.81 m/s), and “h” is height. The broad jumper has most amount of potential energy when he/she is at the apex of the flight phase. In order to increase the amount of change in potential energy the athlete must obtain the greatest height possible. This allows the athlete to fall longer, thus obtaining a further distance.
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After the dynamic warm up, the athlete did a jump rope circuit, which consisted of 1 minute jump rope skips off of 2 feet and 1 minute of single foot jump rope skips for both the left and right foot.
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Noticeably during first attempt client failed to utilize these characteristics. In result vertical jump attempt failed to reach sufficiency. By teaching the client in two steps for a successful vertical jump may conclude a good strategy. The first step will involve utilizing knee flexion, hip flexion, as well as setting feet shoulder width apart for stable base. This will enable client to break gravity using force from legs. The second step will involve client implementing shoulder extension, shoulder flexion, plus elbow extension. This effort will implicate client swinging arms which provides additional momentum carrying body upward. Furthermore utilizing these strategies may increase vertical jump
Essentially the plan for the catapult would have been the same. Measurements for the catapult are the same just in wood. So for lumber I would have gone with an eight foot long of 1.5in x 1.5in would have saved a cent over PVC. For my swing arm I would needed something thinner to be able to swing more freely. I went with a foot and a half of 1-in x 2-in which out of an 8 foot long log that cost ninety six cents priced out to be sixteen cents. Since I didn’t need elbows for wood and elbows were the most expensive material out of the PVC catapult. Instead I’d use screws to hold the corners together. I estimated that I needed twenty screws, so two screws in every corner to make it more secure. This like the elbows ran up to be three dollars in
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