Tuffley - Last one at Grade One!!!

SATURDAY

Jemma

I decided not to write about each of this days runs seperately as the same thing happened in each run - she went clear apart from ........... the weaves!!!! How frustrating!!! However, it was pointed out to me that I was being an idiot and confusing her - twice she got the entrance and I just stood there watching her and not going with her and consequently she came out after the third pole and turned to look at me as if to say "am I doing right and going the right way mummy?", the third set she did miss the entrance. Why I did this I don't know but I think it was because I didn't think she would get them and so was getting ready to call her back to start again!! I was determined to do better for her on Sunday as she was trying her hardest, and I was being an idiot and looking at times yet again I think I lost her a top place in the agility!!

Elliot

Combined 1-2 Agility
Wow do we know what contacts are!!! I absolutely loved this round as he went to the bottom of every single contact and just stood there until I said go and I held them quite a while - I think he finally gets it :) This may well be why he got them in the group lesson despite being excited, simply because he gets it!! There were 12 weaves in this class though and he didn't manage them first time and second time came out after 10 so I just popped him back through the last wo so he knew he had done wrong and then carried on

Combined 1-4 Jumping
When I finished this course Lel heard me two rings down!!! Ooopsies!!! Needless to say he went clear AND he did 6 weaves first time with no stopping, calling back or anything, just straight round the corner and into the weaves, and it wasn't a straight angle!! He finished 28th though 3.221 seconds behind the winner - we definately need to work on his jumping style bless him but I didnt mind, he did 6 weaves straight off :)

Grade 1 Jumping
This course had 12 weaves in and this was the only thing he got wrong from what I remember, the one thing I do remember about this course that both him and Jemma did the most amazing wing wrap ever, they had to do a straight line of four jumps and then wing wrap the last to go back up the line and they both wrapped the wing sooooo tight!!! :)

SUNDAY

Jemma

Combined 1-2 Jumping
Yay, a clear :D Sadly for Jem this course just involved four lines of jumps up and down and no weaves so it wasn't very speedy because I wanted a clear and if I had rushed her she was likely to knock a pole, had she had other clears I would have probably tried to push this and seen what happened but I needed at least one rossette for her!! Because of the course she sadly broke my record and ended up with just a clear round, 2.748 seconds behind the winner.

Combined 1-3 Agility
Yay, another clear round for bear :) aaaaaand this course had 12 weaves in :) I worked them just like I do in training and they had a seesaw before them which I held her on, I also held her on her other contacts and so yet again bless her she finished with just a clear round but I was really pleased with the weaves for two reasons, the obvious that she actually managed to do them but also because I worked them properly!!

Grade 1 Agility
What she thought she was doing in this course I don't know, she was like I have never seen her before, maybe she thought she would make the most of her last run at Grade One but she missed both the a-frame and dog walk contacts and just flew on from the seesaw despite me working them as normal and giving her an early stop command!! The judge didn't fault her dog-walk although I assumed he had and by the time we got to the a-frame I had had enough and so put her back on it and held her on it (am very glad he had faulted us for this one otherwise I would have been VERY annoyed!!) She then didn't manage to get the weaves so I just downed her before sending her over the last two jumps (not that she seemed to mind!!)!!

Elliot

Combined 1-2 Jumping
What a nice round from Mr E, stupidly though I spoke to him before he had landed over the last jump and he turned to look at me and dropped his legs knocking the pole - stupid mummy!! Even the judge had started clapping!!! I had to check his time and he would have finished 8th with a time 1.792 seconds faster than Jem!!

Combined 1-3 Agility
Lovely contacts in this as well, although after holding his seesaw for what he thought was too long he decided it was time to do the weaves, sadly because there were 12 he didn't manage them first time and then he popped out one before the end so again I put him through the last gap and then carried on and held him on the dog walk and aframe and for both of these he didn't go until I said :)

Grade 1 Agility
I was bad in this one and said go a little bit before he was at the bottom, especially on the a-frame but he was flying round (after having a little dance infront of the tunnel because he didn't drive on to it as much as I expected) and he then did three jumps after the a frame and then yet again went straight in to 6 weaves and did them perfectly :D Sadly he did the jump after the weaves but then saw the lead bucket slightly off to the right and the last jump was slightly off to the left and I wasn't far enough towards the end to push him over and he went and got his lead running round the last jump!!! Lel said even the judge looked gutted for me!! This is something we shall now be working on in the field, the toy will no longer be in my pocket when we run, it will be on the floor and he will not be playing with it until I say!!

I was so pleased with Elliots weaves this weekend, it looks like we need to spend more time on 12 now than we do entrances, or maybe it is entrances with 12 that we need to do!! His contacts are still slow but they are getting more and more perfect each day :D I feel bad for Jem as I really let her down on Sat but hey that is it for us at grade one so hopefully she is just saving her win for grade 2, we shall see :)