Flyball

It was all round a really good training session day today, Elliot enjoyed finally being allowed back!!

Jem:
Box was good without ball, with ball we got some really really nice turns. I was working leaving her in a sit and then standing about a foot away from her and making her look at the box before she went and all with the other lane in her sights!!! She also did really well on the speed training - we started them chasing each other today, ie one dog went, then the next one when they were half way down (going the same way) and so on.. and then we got it tighter and tighter until the next dog was being released when the one before was just going over the first jump!! Think jem enjoyed it all bless her!!

Elliot:
Well he did nice warm ups, he also did some nice box turns when he let me set him up and let him go properly (I kept taking himself up and just kind of falling over the jump!!) Nat then got me doing the "toshy" thing - involves her letting him go and me standing by the box and then as soon as he was over the jump running away from the box calling him - Nat reckon his turns were much tighter with me doing this (I was too busy running to see!!) so it looks like we will be doing more of this and more with him really running at the box to get the speed so we can practise getting his legs high still!! With the chasing he did really well although a couple of times got a bit confused and went for the dog befores ball. We were also short of handlers and so I was supposed to pass him to someone once they had released their first dog but they forgot and so I only got a couple of seconds on him and needless to say he flew past me but then he got really confused where I was and was running round all the other dogs and then tried to go back over the jumps until eventually he ofund me, bless him!!! Nat reckons he was lengthening more over the jumps although he was still going higher than we would like!!