I thought I'd hallucinated posting this question when I couldn't find it - then I finally noticed the Agility forum. Oops.
Hen and I have done obedience classes, she knows basic commands and she's very, very smart (works against us, she learns something so fast she just has more time to concentrate on the other dogs) and the kennel where we went for one has a basic agility class. We may just stick to our own program. I don't want to compete anyway, and this way it's more of an 'our time' thing, rather than a social time with other people and dogs. I'd kind of fallen into the habit of thinking I had to do everything formally, and I realized recently that this is really just playing with my dog. I think it's great that people can compete and do it formally, but for now I'm happy just messing around in the backyard.
since he fell off the teeter at school and is now afraid of it
Aw, poor boy. There's one of those enormously complicated jungle gyms at my town's park, and I sometimes sneak her over there early in the morning to have her on it before the kids come around. I still haven't convinced her to go down the slide, but she's gotten confident running across the swinging bridge. Thanks for reminding me of the teeter-totter, I was trying to think of the other obstacles. I couldn't get the ladder to work, she keeps banging her legs into the top end, where it narrows. I'm using it propped on its side, and opened slightly, as a broad jump. I set up a line of jumps (wood slats propped between chairs) this week, and it was such a thrill to see her popping over three jumps, one after another. This stuff is fun.