Flyball!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elliot:
Well it was like he had never been away - run backs were beautiful, again he seemed fast but whether he is faster than he was before he went to the smart clinic i will only know when we get to a competition!! Now box work, hmm, pretty much every turn was beautiful however our problem now is his drive back!! He drives back really really nicely to his tuggy on the runs but when he has a ball he isn't interested, i tried a second ball today but again still not interested, however Nat reckoned that on his first two goes he drove back better than on the others, and for these two i had his tuggy out ( i then put it away because he wouldn't play with it), so maybe, although he doesn't actually tug on it, just having it there is enough to make him drive back to it - i shall have another look at this next time in training (in 4 weeks!!! because we have agility the next two sundays and then I am away)

Jemma:
Hmm, definately the noisiest dog there!! Well i was really impressed with her run backs, there was only the once (when she went first) that she couldn't focus on me but the rest of the time she did really well, even doing a couple of almost proper change overs, I was very proud :D However we then went over to do box work and my proudness went away and the fustration came back!! Last August time I introduced a second ball to her and it made her speed up on her return by loads, however she has no decided that she isn't going to bring the first ball back!! Sometimes she doesn't even try that hard to catch it, other times, when she does catch it, she drops it anywhere between the box and the second jump!!! It is so fustrating because I never had this problem with her before!! We have decided that i am just going to totally scrap the second ball and go back to just getting her to come back to me until she is 100% again, the most important thing for her at the moment is doing full runs!! She was good though in the fact that she didn't run across to interfere with the dog training on the other box, although I made sure I never released her at the same time as them!! My aim for her is to at least manage to get her to flyball dog, she is 130 points off at the moment, having gained the 70 in 3 years!!!