Well both dogs were on the Extra-set team. We had a declared time of 21 seconds because we hadn't ran this team before. We had a cracking time, and broke out on one leg with a time of 20.16!! This meant we then had to just keep back on our changes. For me there were three amazing things that came out of today, first was that Jem ran every single leg in the blue and looked like she actually knew what she was doing and that she was having fun staying in our lane!! She got one run back on the red lane and then on our last race we did a warm up run with her - she was being a pain in the bum on the start line, wouldn't look up our lane and just wanted to bark at the other team warming up, but after Katie stood in her way and Nat had words with her (she loves her aunty Nat but is very scared of her at flyball for some reason!!) she looked up our lane and then ran up and back and stayed in our lane even though there were dogs in the blue lane!!!!!! :D :D :D The Second amazing thing was Elliot, he ended up running for Carol as Nat ran Perry and he didn't bat an eyelid, he ran exactly the same for her as for Nat and me, he well and truly proved my point that he will run for whoever has the tuggy!! The third amazing thing was that we won the division!!! :) Heres hoping this is this is a good start to an even better season that by the end of Jem will be as good in the red lane as in the blue!!!
Below are three vids that my flatmate took for us which prove that Jem was actually doing it!!! Just a word of warning though, you might want to turn down/off the sound when watching them!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiR82Evxiz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmXBfYE9UIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmp3zHnVqRw
I shall give some times once Nat has watched the vids and got me some - the lights didnt have timers on and everyone was really busy trying to make sure we didn't break out again so we didnt manage to get any whilst racing!!
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Nat has had a look at the vid and from the angle of the video her rough estimates of times are, jem 4.4 and elliot 4.6!! Interesting as everyone seems to think Elliot is quicker (he is racing a slower dog in this vid)!! Apparently he is still coming back much slower than he is going out so we need to work on that!!
ReplyDeleteJust to add, doing vid analysis, i get E at 1.8-1.9 from line to front feet hitting box and 2.3ish from front feet coming off box to line. Box turn 0.4ish. Jem i get at 2ish line to box, and 2ish box to line with the rest being box turn (which looks a touch quicker than E's at the mo.)
ReplyDeleteIf you want to compare that to Superdog :-P, last year he was 1.6ish line to box and 1.9ish box to line!
I hope you find that interesting lol or maybe thats just me being a nerd! xxx
I find that very interesting, Elliot still has a chance to catch up super dog then if we can get him coming back at the same speed as going out and then I give him some energy tablets!! :P As for Jem, if I had the second ball and as her focus improves yet more on her outruns she will be catching superdog up too, then they will have to go on a speedy team all of their own!!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, had a thought - in the vid Carol was running elliot, wonder if he is any faster when I run him, what with me being a little bit squeaker!?!?
ps maybe I am also a nerd!!
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