These pics show that Jem is struggling to extend her back legs still, although she is having a great time :)
Some evidence Jem can weave if she tries!!!
I will put the others in another post as they wont all fit in this one!!!
Monday, 5 April 2010
Agility Photos
These pics show that Jem is struggling to extend her back legs still, although she is having a great time :)
Dog Vegas Easter 2010 - Day 4
Fiona kindly took some videos today, so there should be less waffle :D
A link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQllPnQq4Y
Jemma:
Agility Graded 1-4 - 2nd Place!!!
I am so annoyed with myself for this round – she missed out on 1st by half a second, her time was 29.972 with the winner having a time of 29.589 and 3rd place having a time of 33.043!! The ground was really slippy (as you can see from the vid it was very rainy!!!) and I didn’t feel I had time to front cross the bit where I back crossed and she twiddled, on walking the course I knew she would twiddle if I back crossed (after what she had been like the rest of the weekend!) and looking at the video I had plenty of time to do the front cross, I spent a lot of time dithering, although she did only just get her contact so who knows. What I could/should have done is done a longer lead out and got to the jump after the dog walk but nevermind, we live and learn, our turn will come!!
Agility Graded 1-3
Well, if only she could distinguish between weaves and a seesaw facing the wrong way we would have been alright!! I was really pleased with how well she work on the two big turns as if she had been going clear until the bit before the a-frame i was going to back cross as i didn’t think she would work that far away!
Jumping Graded 1-2
I don’t know what was going through my head at the beginning, I was going to pivot lead out on to the weaves and then kind of forgot what I was doing, I think I then dawdled too much when she was in the weaves!!
Elliot:
I didn’t take him in the first agility class as I couldn’t easily do a course with him, I did however take him in the second one – he broke his wait, didn’t do the six weaves (for some reason known only to myself I didn’t put him back and do them again) he did the jumps before the dog walk lovely, I then thought I would let him do one bad contact as it was the only way to get him to the finish, and it was very bad, he jumped off half way down, i did however put him on the bottom and make him wait before he went over the last jump!!
Jumping Graded 1-2
Don’t know where his wait has disappeared to!! I don’t think it will be long before he is weaving, he is desperate to do them!! I was really pleased with his jumping – just got to sort out these jumps before the tunnels!!
All in all it was an eventful weekend and has given us a lot to work on, my list that I can think of right now (I will probably add to it!!) is as follows:
Jemma:
Weaves, with her coming at them at speed and at angles
Contacts still
Back crosses!!!
Waits, so that i can do really long lead outs – i think she would do this the majority of the time, but is those minority times that stop me doing them, maybe I just need more confidence in her!!
Elliot:
Weaves
Contacts
Waits
Jumps before tunnels
A link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQllPnQq4Y
Jemma:
Agility Graded 1-4 - 2nd Place!!!
I am so annoyed with myself for this round – she missed out on 1st by half a second, her time was 29.972 with the winner having a time of 29.589 and 3rd place having a time of 33.043!! The ground was really slippy (as you can see from the vid it was very rainy!!!) and I didn’t feel I had time to front cross the bit where I back crossed and she twiddled, on walking the course I knew she would twiddle if I back crossed (after what she had been like the rest of the weekend!) and looking at the video I had plenty of time to do the front cross, I spent a lot of time dithering, although she did only just get her contact so who knows. What I could/should have done is done a longer lead out and got to the jump after the dog walk but nevermind, we live and learn, our turn will come!!
Agility Graded 1-3
Well, if only she could distinguish between weaves and a seesaw facing the wrong way we would have been alright!! I was really pleased with how well she work on the two big turns as if she had been going clear until the bit before the a-frame i was going to back cross as i didn’t think she would work that far away!
Jumping Graded 1-2
I don’t know what was going through my head at the beginning, I was going to pivot lead out on to the weaves and then kind of forgot what I was doing, I think I then dawdled too much when she was in the weaves!!
Elliot:
I didn’t take him in the first agility class as I couldn’t easily do a course with him, I did however take him in the second one – he broke his wait, didn’t do the six weaves (for some reason known only to myself I didn’t put him back and do them again) he did the jumps before the dog walk lovely, I then thought I would let him do one bad contact as it was the only way to get him to the finish, and it was very bad, he jumped off half way down, i did however put him on the bottom and make him wait before he went over the last jump!!
Jumping Graded 1-2
Don’t know where his wait has disappeared to!! I don’t think it will be long before he is weaving, he is desperate to do them!! I was really pleased with his jumping – just got to sort out these jumps before the tunnels!!
All in all it was an eventful weekend and has given us a lot to work on, my list that I can think of right now (I will probably add to it!!) is as follows:
Jemma:
Weaves, with her coming at them at speed and at angles
Contacts still
Back crosses!!!
Waits, so that i can do really long lead outs – i think she would do this the majority of the time, but is those minority times that stop me doing them, maybe I just need more confidence in her!!
Elliot:
Weaves
Contacts
Waits
Jumps before tunnels
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Dog Vegas Easter 2010 - Day 3
No videos from today I am afraid so just lots of waffle.
Jemma:
Agility Graded 1-4
She missed out the second weave pole and then I lost the plot, not waiting until she was commited to the tunnel before doing the next bit as I was worried about getting in the right place to do a very optomistic front cross, it then completely fell apart so we retired gracefully - half eight in the morning is definately not my time to run!!
Agility Graded 1-2
This round was beautiful, she ran really well, I actually handled properly for once and it felt really good to run. Sadly she went charging at the weaves and although she got the entrance she couldn't wrap to get back in the next gap, although she tried REALLY hard!! Both in this run and the run on Friday if you take off the time it took us to redo the weaves she was faster than the winner - one day we WILL get our weaves right!!
Jumping Graded 1-3
Again, she cocked up the weaves, coming out at 10 and then after that we totally lost the plot and so between the two of us put together did some shambles of a course to get us to the end!!
Elliot:
He had a bit of a pants day really, I didn't take him in either of the agility classes as one started jump tunnel and after yesterday I decided it wasn't worth trying to get him to do it and not succeding and the other one started jump, dog walk and there were no other jumps/tunnels around for us to use!
Jumping Graded 1-3
This was at about half 3 and as he had had no other runs he was a bit manic. It started tyre, jump and he released himself and went under the tyre so we started again, this time I didn't go so far and he waited until I told him to go but still went under the tyre, but I decided to carry on, however it was a bit of a difficult start for him as there was a straight line of tyre, jump, weaves, jump but after the jump (before the weaves) you had to pull them round a 270 degree angle to do another jump before doing jump number two again and then going into the waeves. Well Elliot bless him took off to the weaves three times, got his entrance every time!!!!!!!!!!! but then because I had stopped came out, although on the third one I decided to jsut carry on with him because I didn't want to discourage him from doing the weaves at the moment, however he was then very hyped up and very confused, the next bit of the course was a bit all over the place but jumps 14-20 were done beautifully :D
Jemma:
Agility Graded 1-4
She missed out the second weave pole and then I lost the plot, not waiting until she was commited to the tunnel before doing the next bit as I was worried about getting in the right place to do a very optomistic front cross, it then completely fell apart so we retired gracefully - half eight in the morning is definately not my time to run!!
Agility Graded 1-2
This round was beautiful, she ran really well, I actually handled properly for once and it felt really good to run. Sadly she went charging at the weaves and although she got the entrance she couldn't wrap to get back in the next gap, although she tried REALLY hard!! Both in this run and the run on Friday if you take off the time it took us to redo the weaves she was faster than the winner - one day we WILL get our weaves right!!
Jumping Graded 1-3
Again, she cocked up the weaves, coming out at 10 and then after that we totally lost the plot and so between the two of us put together did some shambles of a course to get us to the end!!
Elliot:
He had a bit of a pants day really, I didn't take him in either of the agility classes as one started jump tunnel and after yesterday I decided it wasn't worth trying to get him to do it and not succeding and the other one started jump, dog walk and there were no other jumps/tunnels around for us to use!
Jumping Graded 1-3
This was at about half 3 and as he had had no other runs he was a bit manic. It started tyre, jump and he released himself and went under the tyre so we started again, this time I didn't go so far and he waited until I told him to go but still went under the tyre, but I decided to carry on, however it was a bit of a difficult start for him as there was a straight line of tyre, jump, weaves, jump but after the jump (before the weaves) you had to pull them round a 270 degree angle to do another jump before doing jump number two again and then going into the waeves. Well Elliot bless him took off to the weaves three times, got his entrance every time!!!!!!!!!!! but then because I had stopped came out, although on the third one I decided to jsut carry on with him because I didn't want to discourage him from doing the weaves at the moment, however he was then very hyped up and very confused, the next bit of the course was a bit all over the place but jumps 14-20 were done beautifully :D
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Dog Vegas Easter 2010 - Day 2
Well they day started badly with me getting a puncture and having to wait for the AA to come and change my tyre. This meant we were an hour late arriving and missed walking the first course! I therefore decided as it was agility to only run Jem in it and not worry about Elliot. This was also the only run that we managed to get on video as my classes either clashed with Pen/Paul running or I forgot the camera so again, most of this will just be my waffle!!
Jemma
Agility Graded 1-2
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_meJU7JPHP0
I forgot the front cross I had planned to do in this and that was why we had the little dance and then the problem with the weaves. I was pleased with her contacts although not really sure why she knocked the pole that she did!
Agility Graded 1-4
This course had a lot of traps in it, with the tunnel being under the dog walk, the weaves running along not far from the a frame, a bad anlge on to a long jump etc., however Jem ran it really nicely, lovely contacts, went up the dog walk and not into the tunnel, got the 45 degree weave angle, did all tweleve weaves, but then sadly went over a jump instead of into a tunnel - I think to stop this I should have said here/jem instead of tunnel as she came out the weaves pointing towards the jump. She did however then finish the course beautifully, not knocking the long jump this time!! :D
Jumping Graded 1-2
She was really naughty in this - it started two jumps in a straight line but then a 180 degree turn to no 3, despite me looking at jump two and pointing at it, she decided to go behind me and over jump three, all because I took a step that way before she was committed to the second jump, I know that is kind of my fault, however it doesn't excuse her going behind me!! Something else for us to work on!!
Elliot:
Agility Graded 1-4
This course started jump, cloth tunnel and after about 5 attempts of getting him to go over the first jump and not under it and straight in to the tunnel we gave up - I tried putting him at an angle and all sorts but it didn't work so I decided it wasn't worth letting him continue to do this as he was self rewarding himself with the tunnel and so was just learning to go under the jump - definately something we need to work on as he likes to do this in the middle of a course as well if the jump is closeish to the tunnel. His wait however was perfect every time :D
Jumping Graded 1-2
Again a beautiful wait but sadly he knocked the second pole, this was because he was focusing off into the distance and then as he was taking the pole I started moving right and he turned to look at me and see where I was off to!! He then did some lovely jumping and I thought I would try just running him at the six weaves - he missed the entrance and went in the next gap and then missed the next but he tried all the way to the end and was really happy so we just carried on rather than worrying him by doing them again. He then went on nicely but sadly came in the box on a corner because I moved off before he was committed - he was only doing what I had told him, however he then ran the rest of the course beautifully and did some really lovely jumping so I was really pleased with him.
When I got home I did some weaves withi him and he managed the six eight times in a row with me on the left and sort of running at them, he struggled a bit on the right but got there after a few minutes :) Hopefully this will help a bit for tomorrow, and I plan on doing some more tomorrow night to help for Monday :)
Jemma
Agility Graded 1-2
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_meJU7JPHP0
I forgot the front cross I had planned to do in this and that was why we had the little dance and then the problem with the weaves. I was pleased with her contacts although not really sure why she knocked the pole that she did!
Agility Graded 1-4
This course had a lot of traps in it, with the tunnel being under the dog walk, the weaves running along not far from the a frame, a bad anlge on to a long jump etc., however Jem ran it really nicely, lovely contacts, went up the dog walk and not into the tunnel, got the 45 degree weave angle, did all tweleve weaves, but then sadly went over a jump instead of into a tunnel - I think to stop this I should have said here/jem instead of tunnel as she came out the weaves pointing towards the jump. She did however then finish the course beautifully, not knocking the long jump this time!! :D
Jumping Graded 1-2
She was really naughty in this - it started two jumps in a straight line but then a 180 degree turn to no 3, despite me looking at jump two and pointing at it, she decided to go behind me and over jump three, all because I took a step that way before she was committed to the second jump, I know that is kind of my fault, however it doesn't excuse her going behind me!! Something else for us to work on!!
Elliot:
Agility Graded 1-4
This course started jump, cloth tunnel and after about 5 attempts of getting him to go over the first jump and not under it and straight in to the tunnel we gave up - I tried putting him at an angle and all sorts but it didn't work so I decided it wasn't worth letting him continue to do this as he was self rewarding himself with the tunnel and so was just learning to go under the jump - definately something we need to work on as he likes to do this in the middle of a course as well if the jump is closeish to the tunnel. His wait however was perfect every time :D
Jumping Graded 1-2
Again a beautiful wait but sadly he knocked the second pole, this was because he was focusing off into the distance and then as he was taking the pole I started moving right and he turned to look at me and see where I was off to!! He then did some lovely jumping and I thought I would try just running him at the six weaves - he missed the entrance and went in the next gap and then missed the next but he tried all the way to the end and was really happy so we just carried on rather than worrying him by doing them again. He then went on nicely but sadly came in the box on a corner because I moved off before he was committed - he was only doing what I had told him, however he then ran the rest of the course beautifully and did some really lovely jumping so I was really pleased with him.
When I got home I did some weaves withi him and he managed the six eight times in a row with me on the left and sort of running at them, he struggled a bit on the right but got there after a few minutes :) Hopefully this will help a bit for tomorrow, and I plan on doing some more tomorrow night to help for Monday :)
Friday, 2 April 2010
Dog Vegas Easter 2010 - Day 1
Video Link for their runs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uF2PLcsFk
My thoughts on their runs:
Jemma
Agility Graded 1-2 - 20th Place
I know why she knocked the long jump - because I had rushed off to get down the long straight and she was trying to catch up - this is the same problem as normal with tunnels, so completely my fault!! As for the last two weaves, not really sure, think she may just have got bored!! She also seems to have got quite bad with going the wrong way when I back cross - I best work on this!!
Jumping Graded 1-4 - 4th Place
I knew she would struggle to pick up the weaves, despite me telling her to weave when she was in the tunnel, didn't realise she was goinh to be quite so silly though!! :P The only reason I can think she went off towards the end was becaues she saw the end timers and went off, any other suggestions as to why will be gratefully recieved!!
Jumping Graded 1-3
She just mis judged the first jump I think, not sure why though. Again, didn't want to complete the 12 weaves but I was naughty, letting her get away with it - I clearly dithered about what to do though!! I stuck with her this time between the tunnel/jump and that worked to get her to keep that pole up!!
Elliot:
Agility Graded 1-2
This one wasn't on the video as the second I let go of his collar he took off like a rocket, so I put him back as planned and then I got a two jump lead out on him and he did the five jumps I wanted :)
Jumping Graded 1-4
He had a beautful wait for this one :) It was a shame about the few jumps he went under, I can't really see why, apart from the fact they mainly seem to be on corners. I was really really really pleased with his weaves (after his little trip back down the tunnel!!) - it was really nice to see that he can actually do them!! :D
Jumping Graded 1-3
I was really pleased with his attempt on the 12 weaves for saying we havn't trained 12 straight weaves before, at least he tried all the way to the end!! I am not sure then what happened to the vid but I sent him the wrong way and then went under quite a lot of jumps, especially the last one which was odd as it was at the end of a long straight line!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uF2PLcsFk
My thoughts on their runs:
Jemma
Agility Graded 1-2 - 20th Place
I know why she knocked the long jump - because I had rushed off to get down the long straight and she was trying to catch up - this is the same problem as normal with tunnels, so completely my fault!! As for the last two weaves, not really sure, think she may just have got bored!! She also seems to have got quite bad with going the wrong way when I back cross - I best work on this!!
Jumping Graded 1-4 - 4th Place
I knew she would struggle to pick up the weaves, despite me telling her to weave when she was in the tunnel, didn't realise she was goinh to be quite so silly though!! :P The only reason I can think she went off towards the end was becaues she saw the end timers and went off, any other suggestions as to why will be gratefully recieved!!
Jumping Graded 1-3
She just mis judged the first jump I think, not sure why though. Again, didn't want to complete the 12 weaves but I was naughty, letting her get away with it - I clearly dithered about what to do though!! I stuck with her this time between the tunnel/jump and that worked to get her to keep that pole up!!
Elliot:
Agility Graded 1-2
This one wasn't on the video as the second I let go of his collar he took off like a rocket, so I put him back as planned and then I got a two jump lead out on him and he did the five jumps I wanted :)
Jumping Graded 1-4
He had a beautful wait for this one :) It was a shame about the few jumps he went under, I can't really see why, apart from the fact they mainly seem to be on corners. I was really really really pleased with his weaves (after his little trip back down the tunnel!!) - it was really nice to see that he can actually do them!! :D
Jumping Graded 1-3
I was really pleased with his attempt on the 12 weaves for saying we havn't trained 12 straight weaves before, at least he tried all the way to the end!! I am not sure then what happened to the vid but I sent him the wrong way and then went under quite a lot of jumps, especially the last one which was odd as it was at the end of a long straight line!!
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