Dartmoor

What a last show of the season, here is how it went, with videos of all but Elliot's agility round at the end;

Graded 1-2 Agility

Jemma:
Such a shame, I went to do a front cross at a point in the course that meant I needed to run to do it and I spent too long ensuring Jem was going to take the tunnel and jump that I didn't get close enough to the seesaw to do it so she knocked the pole :( apart from that the round was amazing and she remembered all her recent contact and weave training - I couldn't help myself and checked her time - she was only 0.4 seconds behind the winner and I held her contacts a lot longer than I would have had she been going clear, so another win missed out on because of me!! Oddly enough though I wasn't too bothered about it this time because she ran so well and it felt so good!

Elliot:
Wow, he also remembered his contact training - his dog walk was amazing, once he was on it I just ran to the finish line, shouting stop as he was at the top of the down plank, and didn't look back until I stopped and was ready to release him and he flew down to the bottom in the 2o2o position (apparently as I didn't see this bit) and just waited there - yay!!!! :D Sadly he managed to knock the jump before the a-frame as he mis-timed the gap, he also didn't do the weaves first time but that had something to do with me being a muppet and just completely leaving him to it with a very quiet weave command and no help - idiot!!! It is a shame I didn't get his contacts on video, but I am sure they will stay the same and can be filmed next year!!


Graded 1-2 Jumping

Jemma:
I somehow managed to mess her weaves up - I am not sure what I managed to do, even after watching the video numerous times - I think I kind of stopped/jolted or something weird! She was a clever girly second time though :) Because we were then eliminated (she had taken the jump after the weaves first time round) I decided to put into practise my revving her up and getting her going speedy - it worked well, she was a good girl - the long jump was very big and she just took off a tad too early and landed on it bless her, I then pulled off a jump too early so she came inside it but apart form that she was brill and felt really good to run so a good day for her despite no ribbons :)

Elliot:
He had to queue a long time for this run and was very very excited on the start line! He managed to well and truly take out the first jump - i think this was because he had seen the tunnel and was going to go under it but then at the last minute saw it and tried to jump it bless him. Because I was then concerned he had hurt himself I lost him in the tunnel - the weaves were done right on the third attempt, mainly due to his excitement I think!! The rest of the round didn't really happen - the video shows why - I am still recovering!!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNr65O3ik4E