SWAT Day 2 - A better day!!

Jemma:
Jumping Combined 1-7
I would have estimated this was set at about grade 3-5, with some really flowy bits but also some more tricky bits, well bless little Jem, on the second to last jump I didn't dink her in - I had misjudged where she would land - and so when she ran forwards she ran round the wing!! It was such a shame as we were clear up to then, I felt very guilty - sorry bear!!

Agility Graded 1-2
This course gutted me - it was jump weaves at the start so she managed to do all six of them!!, then came the gutting bit, she knocked the pole on the next jump!! She worked the rest of the course really nicely, although the dog walk and seesaw contacts were quite slow but I think that was because I had decided to work them and so was dawdling and she was confused - the a-frame was lovely tho!! Lel did get this on video on her phone so I don't know if it will make it to the internet but if it does I shall inform you :)

Jumping Graded 1-2
Yay, we did it - our first clear round of the weekend!!! We had one small deviation but other than that it was lovely!

Elliot:
Practise Ring:
I only went in once today and did weaves and contacts, his weaves took three attempts, but then he did them right three times in a row :) We then moved on to contacts and he was good on the aframe (very nice) but ran off the dog walk and seesaw but we sorted this :)

Agility Graded 1-2
Wow can this boy weave!!! I sat him before the weaves but he did not wana wait and so took himself off and did the six of them, super speedy and super correct :D so then off I ran!!! He ran out of the tunnel and I stupidly forgot to actually say seesaw and so he ran past it!! When I put him back on though he wasa good boy and did it nicely, although he stopped with his front paws on the end (rather than on the floor) for a little while until I encouraged him a little further!! I then held him there for a few seconds before releasing him, he was then a naughty boy and ran off the bottom of the dog walk and then aframe (ran, didnt jump though so was happy), I put him back and held him on the bottom of both before releasing him like a good girl!!

Jumping Combined 1-7
He was a naughty boy - He went before I told him (did a beautiful two jumps and long jump before realising I wasn't around!) so I put him back (despite being very tempted to carry on but shhh about that bit!!) and then he decided to do it again!!!! so back he went again, I then went just past the first jump and released him, we just did two jumps and then went to the finish (which he ran under!!!)!!!

Jumping Graded 1-2
Yay again, he went clear too!!!! He was really wide on the wing wrap though bless him - something for us to work on with his jumping at last!!!

Jumping Graded 1-2 Results
As they both went clear I thought I would do a seperate section for the results!! Well, I finished up with 2nd and a 3rd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Elliot had the 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The winners time was 23.527, with Elliot being 0.681 seconds behind this - the wide wing wrap, and also because he got a bit stuck in the cloth tunnel - I managed to catch up and get ahead of him he got that stuck!!, and Jem was 0.176 seconds behind him - the slight deviation maybe?? I was really pleased with these results, especially as last time they both went clear Jem beat Elliot which shows that what we have been working on with his jumping style is working!! The trophies were really nice picture frames with a plaque at the bottom and a voucher for a photograph which you had taken in the practise ring - I had one of both of them weaving :)

Going up
I have decided after this weekend to take Jem up to Grade 2 on points! My fear that Elliot will do it before her is slowly becoming more likely and as the courses are always the same for the two grades I feel it won't put them at a disadvantage - I had to make the decision knowing that I wouldn't regret it and I have decided that I will regret it more if I didn't do it and then Elliot won out! However, because she is going up on points I can't change her grades on the competitions where the entries have already closed, so she I have changed my entry for Caerphilly as this is the only one that I could - who knows maybe now I have made a decision and the pressure is off she might win out!!