Thursday, 10 June 2010
Demo
The A-sit blog (link on the right) now has the video from our demo on. The demo went really well despite there being some treats dropped by the weaves :P
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Exams are done so back to agility training :D
Jemma
She was good today, we worked on her contacts and she was doing them all really nicely and really fast once we had sweeties out so, hopefully she will keep this up at the weekend :) She was also just working really nicely in general and really following my body movements :) Her weaves were really good too, she only got them wrong twice I think all session, even with doing tunnel weave and some long run ups to them :) After the tunnel she was doing the weaves the fastest I have ever seen her do them, it was very nice to watch and made me a very happy mummy :)
Elliot
It was really nice today, at the end Gail got to see him run and I think all four of us in the field (me, lel, Gail and Tasha) were proud to watch him :) His weaves were really good - he is really thinking about what he is doig now, he is a little cautious because he is worried about getting it wrong but for now that is good as it is meaning he is getting them right :) He was even doing tunnel weave without stopping in between and after a few goes was getting it right very consistently :) His contacts were also good, he only ran off the first seesaw which was because i commanded him late, oops!! Towards the end of the lesson he kept wondering off the end of the aframe sniffing stuff but I think this was because it was very muggy and he was tired!! He is creeping down the contacts because he knows he has to be careful and stop but for now that is so much better than him jumping off from a quarter of the way down and me having no control - our job for the winter will be to speed these up :) His jumping is also get much better. So again, all in all a good lesson for him :)
We are doing a demo at uni tomorrow for a puppy reunion they have which should be fun :)
She was good today, we worked on her contacts and she was doing them all really nicely and really fast once we had sweeties out so, hopefully she will keep this up at the weekend :) She was also just working really nicely in general and really following my body movements :) Her weaves were really good too, she only got them wrong twice I think all session, even with doing tunnel weave and some long run ups to them :) After the tunnel she was doing the weaves the fastest I have ever seen her do them, it was very nice to watch and made me a very happy mummy :)
Elliot
It was really nice today, at the end Gail got to see him run and I think all four of us in the field (me, lel, Gail and Tasha) were proud to watch him :) His weaves were really good - he is really thinking about what he is doig now, he is a little cautious because he is worried about getting it wrong but for now that is good as it is meaning he is getting them right :) He was even doing tunnel weave without stopping in between and after a few goes was getting it right very consistently :) His contacts were also good, he only ran off the first seesaw which was because i commanded him late, oops!! Towards the end of the lesson he kept wondering off the end of the aframe sniffing stuff but I think this was because it was very muggy and he was tired!! He is creeping down the contacts because he knows he has to be careful and stop but for now that is so much better than him jumping off from a quarter of the way down and me having no control - our job for the winter will be to speed these up :) His jumping is also get much better. So again, all in all a good lesson for him :)
We are doing a demo at uni tomorrow for a puppy reunion they have which should be fun :)
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Mad Mutts - Hearing Dogs
Jem was a bit naughty to start with today, she was really eyeballing the other lane but she didn't run across thanks to lots of shouting from me - apologises to anyone on the line whilst we were racing!! The morning started eventfully with me falling flat on my arse in the warm up and then later in the morning elliot somehow managed to run smack into Lisa and she did a spectacular flip over the top of him - luckily both were OK, Lisa was just a bit winded and Elliot bless him was really confused and thought he had be grabed to do a re-run so went up the lane after jamie, got very confused as to why he didn't have a ball when he got back to the box, but he came back down the lane again without it!! Jem was much better in the afternoon and was running up and back nicely without looking at the other lane :) We gave her some warm ups in the red lane but didn't brave racing her in it - not sure when we will do this, hopefully one day but it is hard to know when as we don't want to subject the other team to her interfering if she does decide to be naughty, but equally we wont know unless we try - unfortunately today both times we were in the red lane the other team werent warming up and this meant she didnt have the other dogs to look at anyway!! Elliots boxes were a bit rubbish to start, but got better after Nat did some turns with him and apparently for some unknown reason they are even better when I run him :) I was much better on my starts and changeovers today as well and jem even did a rerun without eating jamie on his way out, and to top the day we won all our races and finished first :) All in all a great day, and hopefully one of many more for us and flyball :)
Thursday, 3 June 2010
SWAT Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3SsORx68d8
Here is the video of our Agility run, my face cracks me up every time!!
No training this week as I have exams!!
Here is the video of our Agility run, my face cracks me up every time!!
No training this week as I have exams!!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
SWAT Day 2 - A better day!!
Jemma:
Jumping Combined 1-7
I would have estimated this was set at about grade 3-5, with some really flowy bits but also some more tricky bits, well bless little Jem, on the second to last jump I didn't dink her in - I had misjudged where she would land - and so when she ran forwards she ran round the wing!! It was such a shame as we were clear up to then, I felt very guilty - sorry bear!!
Agility Graded 1-2
This course gutted me - it was jump weaves at the start so she managed to do all six of them!!, then came the gutting bit, she knocked the pole on the next jump!! She worked the rest of the course really nicely, although the dog walk and seesaw contacts were quite slow but I think that was because I had decided to work them and so was dawdling and she was confused - the a-frame was lovely tho!! Lel did get this on video on her phone so I don't know if it will make it to the internet but if it does I shall inform you :)
Jumping Graded 1-2
Yay, we did it - our first clear round of the weekend!!! We had one small deviation but other than that it was lovely!
Elliot:
Practise Ring:
I only went in once today and did weaves and contacts, his weaves took three attempts, but then he did them right three times in a row :) We then moved on to contacts and he was good on the aframe (very nice) but ran off the dog walk and seesaw but we sorted this :)
Agility Graded 1-2
Wow can this boy weave!!! I sat him before the weaves but he did not wana wait and so took himself off and did the six of them, super speedy and super correct :D so then off I ran!!! He ran out of the tunnel and I stupidly forgot to actually say seesaw and so he ran past it!! When I put him back on though he wasa good boy and did it nicely, although he stopped with his front paws on the end (rather than on the floor) for a little while until I encouraged him a little further!! I then held him there for a few seconds before releasing him, he was then a naughty boy and ran off the bottom of the dog walk and then aframe (ran, didnt jump though so was happy), I put him back and held him on the bottom of both before releasing him like a good girl!!
Jumping Combined 1-7
He was a naughty boy - He went before I told him (did a beautiful two jumps and long jump before realising I wasn't around!) so I put him back (despite being very tempted to carry on but shhh about that bit!!) and then he decided to do it again!!!! so back he went again, I then went just past the first jump and released him, we just did two jumps and then went to the finish (which he ran under!!!)!!!
Jumping Graded 1-2
Yay again, he went clear too!!!! He was really wide on the wing wrap though bless him - something for us to work on with his jumping at last!!!
Jumping Graded 1-2 Results
As they both went clear I thought I would do a seperate section for the results!! Well, I finished up with 2nd and a 3rd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Elliot had the 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The winners time was 23.527, with Elliot being 0.681 seconds behind this - the wide wing wrap, and also because he got a bit stuck in the cloth tunnel - I managed to catch up and get ahead of him he got that stuck!!, and Jem was 0.176 seconds behind him - the slight deviation maybe?? I was really pleased with these results, especially as last time they both went clear Jem beat Elliot which shows that what we have been working on with his jumping style is working!! The trophies were really nice picture frames with a plaque at the bottom and a voucher for a photograph which you had taken in the practise ring - I had one of both of them weaving :)
Going up
I have decided after this weekend to take Jem up to Grade 2 on points! My fear that Elliot will do it before her is slowly becoming more likely and as the courses are always the same for the two grades I feel it won't put them at a disadvantage - I had to make the decision knowing that I wouldn't regret it and I have decided that I will regret it more if I didn't do it and then Elliot won out! However, because she is going up on points I can't change her grades on the competitions where the entries have already closed, so she I have changed my entry for Caerphilly as this is the only one that I could - who knows maybe now I have made a decision and the pressure is off she might win out!!
Jumping Combined 1-7
I would have estimated this was set at about grade 3-5, with some really flowy bits but also some more tricky bits, well bless little Jem, on the second to last jump I didn't dink her in - I had misjudged where she would land - and so when she ran forwards she ran round the wing!! It was such a shame as we were clear up to then, I felt very guilty - sorry bear!!
Agility Graded 1-2
This course gutted me - it was jump weaves at the start so she managed to do all six of them!!, then came the gutting bit, she knocked the pole on the next jump!! She worked the rest of the course really nicely, although the dog walk and seesaw contacts were quite slow but I think that was because I had decided to work them and so was dawdling and she was confused - the a-frame was lovely tho!! Lel did get this on video on her phone so I don't know if it will make it to the internet but if it does I shall inform you :)
Jumping Graded 1-2
Yay, we did it - our first clear round of the weekend!!! We had one small deviation but other than that it was lovely!
Elliot:
Practise Ring:
I only went in once today and did weaves and contacts, his weaves took three attempts, but then he did them right three times in a row :) We then moved on to contacts and he was good on the aframe (very nice) but ran off the dog walk and seesaw but we sorted this :)
Agility Graded 1-2
Wow can this boy weave!!! I sat him before the weaves but he did not wana wait and so took himself off and did the six of them, super speedy and super correct :D so then off I ran!!! He ran out of the tunnel and I stupidly forgot to actually say seesaw and so he ran past it!! When I put him back on though he wasa good boy and did it nicely, although he stopped with his front paws on the end (rather than on the floor) for a little while until I encouraged him a little further!! I then held him there for a few seconds before releasing him, he was then a naughty boy and ran off the bottom of the dog walk and then aframe (ran, didnt jump though so was happy), I put him back and held him on the bottom of both before releasing him like a good girl!!
Jumping Combined 1-7
He was a naughty boy - He went before I told him (did a beautiful two jumps and long jump before realising I wasn't around!) so I put him back (despite being very tempted to carry on but shhh about that bit!!) and then he decided to do it again!!!! so back he went again, I then went just past the first jump and released him, we just did two jumps and then went to the finish (which he ran under!!!)!!!
Jumping Graded 1-2
Yay again, he went clear too!!!! He was really wide on the wing wrap though bless him - something for us to work on with his jumping at last!!!
Jumping Graded 1-2 Results
As they both went clear I thought I would do a seperate section for the results!! Well, I finished up with 2nd and a 3rd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Elliot had the 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The winners time was 23.527, with Elliot being 0.681 seconds behind this - the wide wing wrap, and also because he got a bit stuck in the cloth tunnel - I managed to catch up and get ahead of him he got that stuck!!, and Jem was 0.176 seconds behind him - the slight deviation maybe?? I was really pleased with these results, especially as last time they both went clear Jem beat Elliot which shows that what we have been working on with his jumping style is working!! The trophies were really nice picture frames with a plaque at the bottom and a voucher for a photograph which you had taken in the practise ring - I had one of both of them weaving :)
Going up
I have decided after this weekend to take Jem up to Grade 2 on points! My fear that Elliot will do it before her is slowly becoming more likely and as the courses are always the same for the two grades I feel it won't put them at a disadvantage - I had to make the decision knowing that I wouldn't regret it and I have decided that I will regret it more if I didn't do it and then Elliot won out! However, because she is going up on points I can't change her grades on the competitions where the entries have already closed, so she I have changed my entry for Caerphilly as this is the only one that I could - who knows maybe now I have made a decision and the pressure is off she might win out!!
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