Bad blogger

I seem to have turned into a bad blogger when it comes to rambling about my lessons!!

Jemma
We have spent both lessons this week working on tightening her turns up, with a very nice effect I must say :) Weaves have also been looked at and have also been improving, I have completely scrapped the command "weave" now and just use "steady" because it was well and truly proved today that weave doesn't work but steady does!! We also worked on her contacts, making sure she is stopping at the bottom when I run on ahead of her and then stop as she was stopping just above the bottom, she was much better by the end of the lesson :) All in all a good week for her so fingers crossed for tomorrow!!

Elliot
His weaves seem to be back, he struggled a bit with 12 on tues when the middle was in shadow but we managed a nice set to finish on :) His contacts are pretty damn good now, he still pops off occassionally or stops just above the bottom but hey, they are better than before, I think we may need to go back a little bit over the winter to reinforce the position to improve it for next season but for now hey I can do a full agility course with him so who cares!! :) Today we tried putting six weaves after some jumps and we had probably an 80% success rate when it was just two jumps into the weaves, but when we tried adding a little course of jumps before them he wasn't breaking enough to get back in the second gap, I think more work is need on where I command him and where I stand as this seemed to be affecting him quite a lot. We also worked on having a second set of weaves at a 45 degree angle after the first (with a gap between) and he was pretty good at getting these, after an initially period of being a bit confused and checking back a lot and so missing a pole!! Again all in all a good week for him too, looking forward to tomorrow - lel had a practise with him tues night in case she has to run him in the team tomorrow, it could be very amusing!!