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!