Tunnel obstacles are not meant to test your dog’s speed or skill so much as their confidence, they have to work out how to exit it, and continue to do so without turning around to go back out through the entrance, all while they cannot see where they are going.
The intention of the tunnel in dog agility is to improve your dog’s confidence and ability, their willingness to follow commands, even when they cannot directly see you.

These small, colourful fences are constructed of two bases, called stands or wings, with further horizontal poles supported by them, which can be adjusted to various different heights. Jumps are useful for building your pet’s stamina and fitness, as well as increasing their musculature and flexibility as they progress. They also help your dogs to develop control and coordination on the fly, as the idea is that the dog leaps the fence without dislodging any of the poles!

Weaving poles involves a straight course of flexible poles spaced out at set distances for dogs to weave through. The ideas is that your dog uses the poles to weave back and forth through in one direction.
This type of agility work is designed to improve the dog’s running speed, cornering skills and accuracy at high speeds, making your dog think about what they are doing while also maintaining a rapid pace as they weave in and out the poles.

Hoop or tyre jumps are a more complex form of jumping obstacle. The tyre is suspended off the ground at variable heights, and the intention is that your dog should jump through the hoop without making contact with it.
These obstacles help to teach your dog precision, control and how to pace themselves in order to execute a good jump, as well as contributing to flexibility and muscle tone too.

The A frame is probably one of the most easily identifyable pieces of the contact equipment. The bottom sections are lighter coloured, these are the contact areas.
Contact areas are where your dog must place their feet when using the equipment, it’s the focus of the training using the contact equipment. Teaching ‘two on, two off’ is a common technique to slow down very speedy dogs to allow you as handler to catch up

The see-saw is a flat plank that is suspended at the middle to tip either way. Dogs should step onto the plank on the first contact point, move along until the plank tilts over to the other end, and not come off the obstacle until the second contact point and with the end of the plank on the ground. These obstacles are designed to test your dog’s balance, accuracy and self-control, as they force the dog to slow down and stay on point in the middle of an exciting, high-speed round.