Found some vids to post!!

I have just found some Agility videos that Lel gave me of my guys, hex and asher that I thought I would post :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvxfLda4C8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKH6C4Hkdyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIt08Pwgq0

Enjoy :)

BFA Champs

I thought I would do this as a separate post to stockbridge but if I don't do it now then it won't get done!!

This weekend was very disappointing for me as Jem, although well, had no energy due to her illness and so couldn't race :( Elliot therefore moved down to Extraset so Rosie could move down to Rockets and we didn't have to withdraw any teams!

The actual racing was brill though, extraset had tight racing all day and managed to win three races and finished third, I am not sure of our best times but it would be low 20.??? I think. I was most pleased with the fact I seem to have suddenly got the hang of changeovers and had so many that made us hold our breath but that weren't lights that it was scary but hey, I got no lights and therefore must have been bang on!! :D

I shall leave Nat to fill you all in on the rest of the weekends racing seeing as I wasn't there!!

Nothing now until Shackerstone in 3 weeks, so blog will be quite as I don't even have any training! :(

Stockbridge

A very overdue post due to me waiting until I had managed to get the videos sorted!! However it does mean I can't really remember the ins and outs of the racing!!

First weekend

Both Extraset and Rockets came 5th. Because of the light system used here we managed to get times for all the dogs and Jemma had a fastest time of 4.430 with an average time of 4.546 and Elliot had a fastest time of 4.537 and an average time of 4.743 which shows just how much speedier Jem is, she is also much more consistent, however interestingly when I did singles with them on the Saturday Jem only managed a best time of 4.61 and Elliots best was 4.59 so she clearly races the other dogs more!!

Here are the video links for this weekend:

Extraset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNnH_Wgcja8

Rockets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUCDIJ9ovE

Ballistics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-zG-3gYFE


Pairs

On the Wednesday there was fancy dress pairs that involved the dogs going as a pair followed by us going over the jumps, drinking wine at the box and then coming back, one after the other and it was run in divisions - it was brill! We all had an amazing day despite it being rained off for an hour!! The ballistics managed to do well as a team with Mark & June (Smartie & Rosie) coming 2nd in their division, Mark & Carol (Fraggle!!!! & Luna) came 1st in their division and Nat & I (Asher & Elliot) also won our division!!!! Will definitely be doing it again next year!!!

The rest of the week just involved lots of drinking, dog walking, training the puppies etc and was a very welcome break!!!

Second Weekend

We took some videos of the missiles this weekend, the link is below. Sadly Jem had managed to eat something and given herself really bad sickness and diarrhoea so I had to pull her from racing! I ended up also pulling Elliot from racing so that the rockets and extraset could run together as one team and I could go home earlier as I was coming up to Nottingham rather than back to Bristol. He went down on the Ballisitics team sheet and did a couple of warm ups in the morning, I tried him with two balls but he didn't seem as fast - i took him to the singles lane later to try him again and compare times and I was right as he only managed a 4.9 something although he wasn't as fresh as he had been the weekend before and it was hot but I was still disappointed! The only thing I can think is that when I have his tuggy I call him all the way back but when I was using the two balls I wasn't so I will have to try the two balls but still calling!!

Missiles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AChf5SNDg

So all in all a good week although I was disappointed not to be able to run the second weekend :(