In order to really keep up with any kind of training, I personally need to stick to a schedule by going to a regular class. We were trying to train Maxie on our own at first and thought we were doing reasonably well, but then we took the class and realized just how much there was that we didn’t know (or was doing wrong)! I also liked how we built on the same concepts over time versus learning something once and moving on, as repeatedly performing a task made it much easier to remember how to use it to train Maxie on our own.