Here is how our first agility show in 18months went;
Jemma just had the one jumping class over small - it had the weaves in which I wasn't expecting and was a really widely spaced flowin course. Jem missed her weave entry and came out before the end but I carried on anyway as she hasn't trained them for a while and I didn't really want her twisting about too much. She did run around about 2 jumps where I took short cuts to try and keep up but we carried on regardless and she had fun :)
Elliot;
Agility (I ran this as a training round)
His seesaw was brilliant, he missed the dog walk (it was after the tunnel and I carried on without making sure he had seen it). He then seemed a little bit cautious about the surface of the dog walk once he was on it (apparently there were quite a few dogs reacting oddly to it) and he crept into position and then self released. He wasn't worried about going on the a-frame but walked into position (he didnt self release though). He finished the round by completing the 12 weaves first time :)
Steeplechase 1
There was one part of the course I spent ages trying to decide which way out of two to run it and ended up handling it a third way. This meant I couldn't get a front cross in later in the course and had to do a back cross which left me too far behind him for later in the course - I was hoping 18months off would have stopped me doing silly things like this but apparently not!! There was also two wing wrap situations where he bottled out of taking the jump.
Steeplechase 2
He knocked a pole and then the one bit of the course where I couldn't decide on how to handle it went a little pear shaped - I get the feeling I need more course experience so I am more confident in how to handle particular situations
Jumping (I ran this as a training round)
He did the 12 weaves (which were at an angle straight after a tunnel) perfectly first time :) and then it was the same open flowing course Jem had done so we just ran hell for leather (mainly to train myself not to just dawdle!) and he did really well - knocked one pole and then bottled out of one jump which he needed to wing wrap.
So all in all I was really pleased with both of them - the bits that went wrong with Elliot were all things I already knew we had problems with so now I just need to try and fix them!!!
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Sunday, 18 March 2012
A little bit behind!!
Wow, I appear to have got quite behind on blogging (although not as behind as some people...)! Here is a rough outline on how Elliot's training has been going;
Flyball
I have been doing some wall work with him to try and improve his box and it has really worked - last week his box turns were consistently good until he got tired and then they were consistently bad (he used to do good turns mixed in with bad) and this week they were all good (except one). However, he is still not taking an extra stride between the box and first jump without a guide in so we shall probably still have to use this in warm ups at competitions! So, the main things to work on now is his fitness, fine tuning his wall turns and "ingraining" the extra stride into him.
Agility
Since Jan I have had another lesson with Lel and been to an Anthony Clarke session at A-SIT, both of which have pushed me to get my act in gear and I have since been training sequences (rather than one obstacles) with him when I hire the equpiment. I am still putting the target at the bottom of his contacts to start with and they are getting much better but are still not as fast as I would like! His weaves are brill and I CANNOT wait for our first competition in nearly 18months next weekend!!!
Jemma
Jem went back to doing a little bit of training in Jan but then had to have surgery at the beginning of Feb to remove parts of a squeaky toy from her stomach and has been out of action since then due to all her muscles tightening up. She was finally let off the lead this week and got to do 5 run backs at flyball and 2 lots of five widely spaced jumps at agility this weekend. She was very happy to be allowed to do something but at flyball she was very confused as to why there were no other dogs out, why no one was chearing and why I wasn't running away and at agility she was getting very frustrated that I wasn't keeping up! She is entered in the UKA show next weekend over small but I am yet to decided if she will get to run!
Flyball
I have been doing some wall work with him to try and improve his box and it has really worked - last week his box turns were consistently good until he got tired and then they were consistently bad (he used to do good turns mixed in with bad) and this week they were all good (except one). However, he is still not taking an extra stride between the box and first jump without a guide in so we shall probably still have to use this in warm ups at competitions! So, the main things to work on now is his fitness, fine tuning his wall turns and "ingraining" the extra stride into him.
Agility
Since Jan I have had another lesson with Lel and been to an Anthony Clarke session at A-SIT, both of which have pushed me to get my act in gear and I have since been training sequences (rather than one obstacles) with him when I hire the equpiment. I am still putting the target at the bottom of his contacts to start with and they are getting much better but are still not as fast as I would like! His weaves are brill and I CANNOT wait for our first competition in nearly 18months next weekend!!!
Jemma
Jem went back to doing a little bit of training in Jan but then had to have surgery at the beginning of Feb to remove parts of a squeaky toy from her stomach and has been out of action since then due to all her muscles tightening up. She was finally let off the lead this week and got to do 5 run backs at flyball and 2 lots of five widely spaced jumps at agility this weekend. She was very happy to be allowed to do something but at flyball she was very confused as to why there were no other dogs out, why no one was chearing and why I wasn't running away and at agility she was getting very frustrated that I wasn't keeping up! She is entered in the UKA show next weekend over small but I am yet to decided if she will get to run!
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