I’ve spent the last four days down in Berkshire on an instructors agility course with The Agility Club. While I was there we observed lots of different breeds running agility sequences. There were quite a few small dogs running courses. With the large breeds, the norm when setting a dog up to start a course was getting the dog to do a middle. This lined the dog up with the jump on the angle the handler wanted. A middle is simply getting the dog to come from behind to stand in