Weaves

The weather was hot again today so the dogs did half an hour each, twice, instead of an hour each.

Elliot:
We did some jumping work and realised we really need to work on his forward drive (still!) as I was trying to back cross him after going round a corner and he kept just looking at me and going round the jump and doing all sorts of crazy things bless him, I think he was struggling a bit in the heat though. After his break we did some weaves work - we put him back to 3 inches and planned to work on "the walk" but it took us ages to get there as he kept not doing the weaves right when i was releasing and pen rewarding and then he kept wondering off and getting confused. Eventually we managed to do it with me going from the 5th pole on the right and 3rd on the left. We then did a few minutes of tyre work and he picked it up straight away,

Jemma:
We worked on her angled weave entrances today and on me working the weaves as part of a course and not as a seperate item within the course. Towards the end we were doing really well with Jem getting the entrances and doing all the weaves correctly and me remembering to move when she was in the weaves and not just watch her. I also improved my flowing arm movement and slowly got rid of the flickly flying arm I like(d) to do. I was really pleased with Jem, she really seems to understand the weaves now, we shall see what sunday brings!