Welcome, please reference the website: http://skijor.org for basics. After browsing the website this yahoo group is a great place to ask further questions on equipment, training, trails, health, technique etc.

The Midwest Skijorers is a social and educational organization geared to assist beginning, intermediate, and advanced skijorers through seminars, clinics, and events so that you and your dog may fully enjoy this unique and wonderful sport!

We understand that you want your dog to "get it" and want it to be easy and happen overnight, but realistically it does not happen that way.
Think of it as any other sport, there are fundamentals to learn, skills to hone, muscles to teach and build.
You are not seeking to merely ski with your dog or follow someone down the trail. You goal is to turn the Cecile or Oscar the couch dog into a thinking working dog like Balto the Gee-Haw Wonder Leader so that you can go anywhere, anytime you want and enjoy the outdoors. It will take time and work to learn it yourself and to train your dog.
Remember to enjoy the experiences and the growth during the journey.

DOGPOWERED SPORTS (Introduction) CLINIC
This course is a great starting point for anyone interested in dogpowered sports.
It details the fundamentals of our theory and approach to training and the dog/handler relationship.
This course covers our reward based teaching techniques, communication, “learning to learn”, luring, shaping, and creating motivation and confidence in your dog.
It emphasizes socialization, manners, focus, controlling environment to keep problems from emerging, and adding distractions..
The dogpowered sport is split, or broken down, into pieces, components, or building blocks which are taught, trained, practiced, and later sequenced or chained together to create a complete task/exercise. In this way we can better ensure that your dogs has a good chance of success, in less stressful manner.