Agility Nuts 23/08/09

Jumping:
J: well, she was of on one again, doing her own thing and so I made her sit three quarters of the way round and start again, she listened much better for the end, monkey!!

E: Sadly I missed the end of the large class with elliot as I had to go meet someone. This was quite annoying as there were no weaves or anything he couldn't do in it. I did however run him NFC at medium and he would have been eliminated because in a long stretch between jumps he took one at an angle that he wasn't supposed to because he is always so eager to be doing something and so looked for the nearest jump and took - tinker!! Other than that he ran really nicely and I was very pleased with him :)

Agility:
E: well i took him in the practice ring first and did quite a few a frames with the target and he did them really really nicely, however in the ring he just flew off the a frame so i put him on again and he did the same thing again so I took him out the ring because I dont want him to get away with taking the p*** like that, little terror!!

J: she ran really nicely except she went back to her old self on the aframe and dawdled down!! she still got a third place with a time of 33.00 (the winner was 29.2) :)

Gamblers:
E: He did really well bless him, I just made him do jump tunnel jump tunnel jump tunnel etc and then took the gamble which he did - he only had 4 points less than jem bless him and came 12th :)

J: we did weaves a couple of times - she did them nicely once in them - her angles really need work now as all weekend she didnt come out of 6 once when she was set up almost straight!! :) She ended up coming 9th :)

TYOL Jumping:
J: we got round about one and a half times I think but then she did something that shocked me so much i just stood there aghast for a while - she wondered off to see the people near the edge of the ring!!! what she was doing and why she did it i don't know - something else she best not do again!!

E: bless him, he really enjoyed himself but sadly knocked the 6th pole (his first of the weekend!!) but I tried to work him to the end but I think he was a bit confused as I didn't really know where i was sending him bless him!!

So all in all I had an amazing weekend and was really pleased with how they both ran!! I bought I picture of them each this time as it was jem a year on and it was elliots first comp - looking at them though I discovered elliot really does have an odd jumping style - he crosses his front paws and tucks his back ones up and crosses them as well - jumping grids are for practicing with both dogs me thinks :)