I finally got round to editing the video from the Shooting Stars tournament in Sept. Looking back at it i cant believe we came first, all the dogs look so sloooooow. Everybodys much faster now and Frazzle is doing the box and developing a lovely 'swimmers turn' and our change overs are much tighter so hopefully we will drop a few seconds at out next tournament which will be the Wimbledon Wizzers at the beginning of January. Last week at training i did lots of work speeding up the dogs by getting them to chase there handlers back down the jumps. Cai really enjoyed this and got a best time of 4.2 seconds.
P.s I am not kicking Alfie... i just push him out of the way with my foot as getting in Cai's face is not a clever thing to do!
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Weave Training
Campbell relaxing after a hard days training! Today after flyball practice i decided to practice the dreaded right hand weaves as i really let us both down last weekend. I set up a small course of three jumps and the weaves in the same layout as the open agility class and the first time we had a go Campbell showed me how little faith i have in him and got the weave entry on the right first time! i should have gone for it last week as a clear would have got us a place as they ended up placing some dogs on 5f. The trouble is i just don't have enough faith in him yet especially where the weaves are concerned.
Sunday, 16 November 2008
C-Side Agility Show
Well this has been one of our worst shows to date! Campbell was entered in all 4 classes, starters agility & jumping (grade 1 - 3) and open agility & Jumping (grade 1 - 7). A couple of the courses were not designed as well at they could have been.
The starters Jumping was first and look like a pretty easy course for Campbell. His wait was great at the start but the little bugger ducked the first jump! I was so surprised that he had already done the second jump before i had chance to react so we got E'd! he flew round the rest though and didn't put a foot wrong. The starters agility had a weave start which didn't really work too well as the timing gates were set up right by the first pole so you either had to send your dog into the weaves or leave you dog in a wait and start the timing as you get into position to call you dog in, neither worked too well and we managed to get 5 faults as i was worrying and sent Campbell into the second gap! The rest of the course went well though and he got all his contacts so i couldn't really have asked for any more from him.
The open jumping was ok... not sure how many faults we got! Campbell was a bit over excited and i kept giving him commands too early and as he is so responsive i kept pulling him off jumps! Oh well ill know for next time to trust him more and not try and work him too much. The open agility was a nice course with a nightmare weave entry for us as we still haven't got the best right hand weaves. I tried to get onto the left but it didn't work and we got 5F but the rest was great! I really must practice those right hand weaves more and trust my dog and not panic! i don't want much do I!?
The starters Jumping was first and look like a pretty easy course for Campbell. His wait was great at the start but the little bugger ducked the first jump! I was so surprised that he had already done the second jump before i had chance to react so we got E'd! he flew round the rest though and didn't put a foot wrong. The starters agility had a weave start which didn't really work too well as the timing gates were set up right by the first pole so you either had to send your dog into the weaves or leave you dog in a wait and start the timing as you get into position to call you dog in, neither worked too well and we managed to get 5 faults as i was worrying and sent Campbell into the second gap! The rest of the course went well though and he got all his contacts so i couldn't really have asked for any more from him.
The open jumping was ok... not sure how many faults we got! Campbell was a bit over excited and i kept giving him commands too early and as he is so responsive i kept pulling him off jumps! Oh well ill know for next time to trust him more and not try and work him too much. The open agility was a nice course with a nightmare weave entry for us as we still haven't got the best right hand weaves. I tried to get onto the left but it didn't work and we got 5F but the rest was great! I really must practice those right hand weaves more and trust my dog and not panic! i don't want much do I!?
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