Left & Right

Jemma:
Well we had some nice horrible anlges to practice today and we made a nice mess of them to start with!! We then worked on lots of things with the course, and by the end I was a very happy mummy!! First thing we improved on was my confidence in leaving her at the start line and this helped us with the next few tricky bits of the course! The one problem that jem was really struggling with was checking herself enough so that she could wrap around the second weave pole, and she kept coming out at number 10 again! We did work on this but she still wasn't 100%. The thing I was most pleased with her was her Lefts and Rights, she has definately learnt these in the past week and we managed to use them in the course - although I have been reminded I am not allowed to use them to be lazy, they are for emergencies only!!! Her contacts were also pretty good today, especially when I remembered to give my stop command in the right place!!

Elliot:
Well, trying to do lefts and rights in the field is very exciting and we had the same problem as when i tried to do it jogging at home, as soon as the excitment levels increase he wants to run at a distance from you and can't concentrate on what he is doing!! We did a little bit of jumping and he was brill, no going under jumps :D We did some work on his weaves - he is soooooo fustrating, he will do it right and then not do it right again for ages, not quite sure what the plan of action is wiht him next but hopefully we will find something that works soon, or the penny will drop for him, he is too worried about doing everything at 100miles an hour!! We finished on some contacts and he made up for his pooey weaves - after about 10mins of doing it he stopped at the bottom by himself and just waited for his treat even with me wondering off and not waiting with him, who knows, maybe we will crack the contacts before the weaves!!