BHC - not a great day for us!!

Graded 1-2 Jumping
Elliot
He was on FIRE in this round, sadly though he had the same problem he has been having recently in training and came out the 12 weaves at number 10 to go on to the next jump, apart from this he was clear!!

Jemma
She was also on fire bless her, she got the weave entrance and went about half way down and then just randomly decided not to do any more, not really sure why but when she still hadn't managed it three attempts later we gave up and left the ring!! Lel did get this one on video so I shall have a look and see if I can see what I did!!

Graded 1-2 Agility
Elliot
This course started jump jump weaves tunnel and so despite there only being nine weaves he came out after about 3 and went on to do the tunnel, I managed to get him back first time but didn't second time and third time he completed them all before carrying on!!! Apart from this it was again a cracking round, his aframe was good, seesaw amazing and dog walk OK but I pushed it by running miles past the end so it made him think too much bless him!!

Jemma
Needless to say I had the same problem with her, she came flying over the first two jumps and then just didn't brake enough for the weaves, I had been made quite self conscious about my "steady" screaming and so had toned it down for this run and the previous one! Second time round she did them and then finished the course perfectly, I made her wait on her contacts which made her slow but it always does, once she has already been faulted she never has the same amount of drive, but she stopped on them all and waited to be released :)

Combined 1-4 Jumping
Jemma
I decided I was going to go back to my screaming "steady" command in this round and it worked, she got the six weaves first time with me miles behind her :) I was really pleased with her because she finished up in 11th place (3.4 seconds behind the winner, 149 dogs in the class) - which for Jem in a combined 1-4 jumping was REALLY good, there were LOTS of clear round rosettes too so it was nice that she made it into the places :) I also know there were places that could have been tighter but I just wanted ONE clear round for the day!!!

Elliot
I messed up this round for him really as it had two consecutive pull throughs in it and despite all the work we have put in I wasn't feeling overly confident about them, I therefore managed to pull off the first jump and then the second jump too soon, and when I tried to straighten him up to send him over the second jump second time round he saw the tunnel and decided to go in that instead - oopsies!!! He then didn't manage the 6 weaves but he was a LONG way ahead of me!!

Brace
This was the first time we had done a brace and so it was pretty exciting!! After all our brace change practise the one thing we didn't practice was with the first dog running into you and the second dog going away in the direction the first dog had come from and this was what we got!! Elliot had the weaves in his half of the course and sadly yet again he came out 1 pole too early (despite their only being 6!!!), he then was a little bugger and refused to do and instant down in the box (he was very good at it at training!!) but once caught I had Jem to run and OMG, she really was FLYING!!! She had a more tricky handling part in her course which she managed fine and she was really driving, she felt great to run bless her!!!


So all in all not a great day, weaves cocking it up for me too many times again!! Hopefully one day I will solve the issue with them - I know with Jem it is mainly me but with Elliot he is just impatient but this should be easier to correct!!! The other main thing from today that I want to work on with Jem is her drive, she showed in the brace she can do it, even when I am hammering it home, so we need to work on doing this in a course normally!!