First Agility Competition in nearly 18 months!!!

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!!!