This rule is for safety reasons. The teeter is like a children's seesaw that requires the dog to balance across the planks and pivot the teeter in order to descend. Again, both the ascending and descending yellow sections painted on the planks must be touched. Your dog will be learning this obstacle last, since this one is the most difficult out of the three contact obstacles. The remaining obstacles are tunnels, jumps, the table, the tire and weave poles.
Tunnels There are two types of tunnels.
This is the open tunnel. A dog performs this obstacle correctly by entering the correct opening and running through the tunnel as fast as he can. Junior smiling as he performs the open tunnel This is the closed tunnel. It is also called the chute. This obstacle is deliberately given a different name since there may be a time when your dog is faced with both the tunnel and the chute.