Weaves, Contacts, Pull Throughs and Wing Wraps

Elliot:
He got his go first today because Jane kindly stayed for a few minutes and brought Welly in to bark at Elliot when doing his contacts to try and get him wound up a bit - it worked, he came off the end of the contact a couple of times but apart from that did them really nice and really fast :) We then worked on our weaves, he did 10 with me on the right and left and a jump before and he only got them wrong once or twice! We then tried 4 jumps into the weaves to see what he did and he tried really hard but just missed the second weave so we moved on to 12 weaves with no jump and he did them on left and right, and finished on a nice set with a jump :) We then did some jump work, with contacts in the sequence too and he was being a bit lazy to start as I think he was tired (it even took Lesley a few times to get it right) but he then got better and finished quite nicely :) All in all a good lesson for him - I also found out today that SWAT has a practise ring at the weekend so we shall be using that to practise our contacts in the competition environment!

Jemma:
Well she was a bit of a nutter when she came out and wouldn't concentrate as she doesn't like having her lesson second!! She did do the course quite nicely though :) We worked on weaves and still had some issues when she was coming at speed, however she is steadying well I tell her so it is all down to my timing with the command, however we ended up doing a sequence before the weaves that involved a pull through which I kept messing up and we consequently spent longer doing this than we would have liked!! We did a few seesaws to remind her she needs to stop at the bottom and not just near the bottom!! We finished on some wing wraps, where I realised if I used the command I taught her "back" she does them much tighter and is much happier and goes faster as she knows where she is going :) Lots for mummy to learn from todays lesson and lots of improvements made to us both! :)