Sunny Day!

We have now started training twice a week as I thought we needed it to try and get Elliot to the point that i havn't wasted my money entering him in all the shows!!

Jemma:
She only had 20mins today as she was really struggling with the heat bless her. We did some work on her seesaw and she did some really nice ones at the end :) We also did some weave work but she is still really struggling when the entrances are at an angle, the plan is to work some more on angles/doing them at speed - we will get these weaves sorted eventually!!! She also did some really nice a frame/dog walk contacts with tunnels at the bottom to try and make he carry on but she didnt :D (apart from the one time i told her to go go go - oops!!) Think that was it for her :)

Elliot:
Hehe, I don't know if I dare say this on here but I have now officially crossed to the dark side to join Lel in the hate channel weaves party!!! They didnt work for either of my dogs and infact i think have caused me more problems than good!! So anyway, I have taken Elliot right back to the beginning again and gone to luring him, at the moment he keeps trying to go faster than me but he was getting a lot better towards the end and was even doing 12 (on both sides). The reason I have gone to this way is because the way we were doing it he wasn't improving as the weeks went on, he just saw weaves as something to run at/through and just wasn't learning the movement needed to bend throuhg them!! We then moved on to contacts and I definately think we will have these cracked before weaves after todays lesson. We were really pushing the proofing today, with me running past him with him off lead and he is really getting it, the odd times when he jumped on to the end but missed he looked so confused and straight away sorted himself out :) It is great to see the improvements in him so quickly and he is now ready to move on and practise at home :)

We shall be back training again on Friday when it will hopefully be a LITTLE less hot so Jem can manage for longer!