Weekend of training

A very belated update from training at the weekend, firstly agility:

Jemma:
She was a good girly, got the weaves (when I got in the right place!!) and her contacts were better than last week. I can't really remember what we had to work on, I think we just played around with the weave entrances. We then did some practice for the brace this coming weekend as I have never done one before and Lel is going to be my handler - I decided to run Elliot first as he drives more to his lead and has a good instant down. We started off very badly but then as I practiced getting the instant down command in at the right time and at getting Jem to go forward - she firstly thought she had to lie down too, then she decided she would pinch the toy and run off with it and finally she went forward but then she sent the poles flying!!! On the final attempt we got it right though so fingers crossed for the weekend!!

Elliot
He was a good boy from what a remember if a little crazy, but then that's nothing new bless him!! His weaves were much better as were his contacts (I think) - I really need to write my blog up closer to training as I really can't remember the lesson that well, I'm just guessing that means there wasn't anything majorly bad he did!!

Now on to flyball training:

Elliot
He was a good boy and was running with the big boys over 12inches!!He struggled a bit when we were doing the speed trials, only in the fact that when going towards the boxes (despite them being quite a way to the left) he thought he had to do them, so got a little in the way bless him. His main problem is that he is still not really driving for the second ball, he seems to put the extra bit of speed in once he is over the jumps - hmm!! He is also still sticking slightly too much on the box for my liking, something else for Nat to think about :P

Jemma
She was completely and utterly manic bless her!! Having two boxes to work on meant she was the same as in competition - looking at the other dog - however, the thing to decide now is what to do about this in training, she did the box every time but ideally we want to train her out of this rather than just letting her get away with it, but what to do who knows?!?!? - Nat will!! hehe!! She also did a good couple of change overs too when people let her go a little earlier than I would have, this was probably because she was still coming towards me, whereas of course when she normally needs to do a change over she will be going away from me, something else for Nat hehe!!!

That's it for now, not that I remembered much!!