Well tonight was our first agility lesson in about 6 weeks and boy was it good to be back!!!
Jemma:
Well, her contacts weren't great, they weren't bad but they certainly werent the best I have seen from her! However there were no poles down and she only mucked the weaves up once when I was an idiot and got well and truly in her way!! I was really pleased with how the lesson went, we seemed to still be in tune with each other, even doing pull throughs (when I got them right) and she worked really nicely bless her.
Elliot:
Hmm, well we managed to do the same things with him as we had with Jemma only it only took us 15mins instead of 30!! He was a little star, contacts were fast (although he did keep releasing himself a little early, but he did do a proper stop first) and he got the weaves every time (only popped out the end once when i said good boy too soon the first time). His jumping was still quite hap hazard and he had quite a few poles down, I also had to work a little harder to retune myself to working him but he looked really good and I was so pleased with his contacts and especially his weaves I did worry he may have lost them!!
So all in all two really good lessons and hopefully a promising last few competitions!!
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Shackerstone
Sadly this was our last flyball competition for this season :( but on the up side the season ended well :)
Jemma was running again (yay!) and was back as start dog for the extraset :) Although she didn't run across to the wrong lane at all, she was looking at the othe lane quite a lot on the way up, however I shall let her off as we still managed to win all our races and finish first with a best time of 20.02 - the same as our seed time :)
Elliot was back on the Rockets and ran well, although I tried him with a second ball for the first two legs and although he seemed to be running for it he wasn't catching it, he was just jabbing it with his nose and so it was flying everywhere! I then went back to the tuggy but Nat said he was still coming back nicely which is good. I shall carry on working on the second ball but I think I shall now start dropping it from lower than I was before and continue working on it over the winter. My change overs were rubbish though, he seemed to be even worse at being unable to stand up straight whilst lining up and so It hink this was throwing me a bit when it came to releasing him, again I guess something to work on over the winter. Rockets ended up finishing 3rd with a best time of 18.74 :)
Jemma has finally got her flyball dog certificate and she is currently on 480 points with Elliot on 910, however the points havn't been updated since daventy on may 23rd so I shall update once the points have been updated for the end of the season :)
Jemma was running again (yay!) and was back as start dog for the extraset :) Although she didn't run across to the wrong lane at all, she was looking at the othe lane quite a lot on the way up, however I shall let her off as we still managed to win all our races and finish first with a best time of 20.02 - the same as our seed time :)
Elliot was back on the Rockets and ran well, although I tried him with a second ball for the first two legs and although he seemed to be running for it he wasn't catching it, he was just jabbing it with his nose and so it was flying everywhere! I then went back to the tuggy but Nat said he was still coming back nicely which is good. I shall carry on working on the second ball but I think I shall now start dropping it from lower than I was before and continue working on it over the winter. My change overs were rubbish though, he seemed to be even worse at being unable to stand up straight whilst lining up and so It hink this was throwing me a bit when it came to releasing him, again I guess something to work on over the winter. Rockets ended up finishing 3rd with a best time of 18.74 :)
Jemma has finally got her flyball dog certificate and she is currently on 480 points with Elliot on 910, however the points havn't been updated since daventy on may 23rd so I shall update once the points have been updated for the end of the season :)
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Found some vids to post!!
I have just found some Agility videos that Lel gave me of my guys, hex and asher that I thought I would post :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvxfLda4C8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKH6C4Hkdyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIt08Pwgq0
Enjoy :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvxfLda4C8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKH6C4Hkdyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIt08Pwgq0
Enjoy :)
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
BFA Champs
I thought I would do this as a separate post to stockbridge but if I don't do it now then it won't get done!!
This weekend was very disappointing for me as Jem, although well, had no energy due to her illness and so couldn't race :( Elliot therefore moved down to Extraset so Rosie could move down to Rockets and we didn't have to withdraw any teams!
The actual racing was brill though, extraset had tight racing all day and managed to win three races and finished third, I am not sure of our best times but it would be low 20.??? I think. I was most pleased with the fact I seem to have suddenly got the hang of changeovers and had so many that made us hold our breath but that weren't lights that it was scary but hey, I got no lights and therefore must have been bang on!! :D
I shall leave Nat to fill you all in on the rest of the weekends racing seeing as I wasn't there!!
Nothing now until Shackerstone in 3 weeks, so blog will be quite as I don't even have any training! :(
This weekend was very disappointing for me as Jem, although well, had no energy due to her illness and so couldn't race :( Elliot therefore moved down to Extraset so Rosie could move down to Rockets and we didn't have to withdraw any teams!
The actual racing was brill though, extraset had tight racing all day and managed to win three races and finished third, I am not sure of our best times but it would be low 20.??? I think. I was most pleased with the fact I seem to have suddenly got the hang of changeovers and had so many that made us hold our breath but that weren't lights that it was scary but hey, I got no lights and therefore must have been bang on!! :D
I shall leave Nat to fill you all in on the rest of the weekends racing seeing as I wasn't there!!
Nothing now until Shackerstone in 3 weeks, so blog will be quite as I don't even have any training! :(
Stockbridge
A very overdue post due to me waiting until I had managed to get the videos sorted!! However it does mean I can't really remember the ins and outs of the racing!!
First weekend
Both Extraset and Rockets came 5th. Because of the light system used here we managed to get times for all the dogs and Jemma had a fastest time of 4.430 with an average time of 4.546 and Elliot had a fastest time of 4.537 and an average time of 4.743 which shows just how much speedier Jem is, she is also much more consistent, however interestingly when I did singles with them on the Saturday Jem only managed a best time of 4.61 and Elliots best was 4.59 so she clearly races the other dogs more!!
Here are the video links for this weekend:
Extraset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNnH_Wgcja8
Rockets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUCDIJ9ovE
Ballistics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-zG-3gYFE
Pairs
On the Wednesday there was fancy dress pairs that involved the dogs going as a pair followed by us going over the jumps, drinking wine at the box and then coming back, one after the other and it was run in divisions - it was brill! We all had an amazing day despite it being rained off for an hour!! The ballistics managed to do well as a team with Mark & June (Smartie & Rosie) coming 2nd in their division, Mark & Carol (Fraggle!!!! & Luna) came 1st in their division and Nat & I (Asher & Elliot) also won our division!!!! Will definitely be doing it again next year!!!
The rest of the week just involved lots of drinking, dog walking, training the puppies etc and was a very welcome break!!!
Second Weekend
We took some videos of the missiles this weekend, the link is below. Sadly Jem had managed to eat something and given herself really bad sickness and diarrhoea so I had to pull her from racing! I ended up also pulling Elliot from racing so that the rockets and extraset could run together as one team and I could go home earlier as I was coming up to Nottingham rather than back to Bristol. He went down on the Ballisitics team sheet and did a couple of warm ups in the morning, I tried him with two balls but he didn't seem as fast - i took him to the singles lane later to try him again and compare times and I was right as he only managed a 4.9 something although he wasn't as fresh as he had been the weekend before and it was hot but I was still disappointed! The only thing I can think is that when I have his tuggy I call him all the way back but when I was using the two balls I wasn't so I will have to try the two balls but still calling!!
Missiles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AChf5SNDg
So all in all a good week although I was disappointed not to be able to run the second weekend :(
First weekend
Both Extraset and Rockets came 5th. Because of the light system used here we managed to get times for all the dogs and Jemma had a fastest time of 4.430 with an average time of 4.546 and Elliot had a fastest time of 4.537 and an average time of 4.743 which shows just how much speedier Jem is, she is also much more consistent, however interestingly when I did singles with them on the Saturday Jem only managed a best time of 4.61 and Elliots best was 4.59 so she clearly races the other dogs more!!
Here are the video links for this weekend:
Extraset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNnH_Wgcja8
Rockets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUCDIJ9ovE
Ballistics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-zG-3gYFE
Pairs
On the Wednesday there was fancy dress pairs that involved the dogs going as a pair followed by us going over the jumps, drinking wine at the box and then coming back, one after the other and it was run in divisions - it was brill! We all had an amazing day despite it being rained off for an hour!! The ballistics managed to do well as a team with Mark & June (Smartie & Rosie) coming 2nd in their division, Mark & Carol (Fraggle!!!! & Luna) came 1st in their division and Nat & I (Asher & Elliot) also won our division!!!! Will definitely be doing it again next year!!!
The rest of the week just involved lots of drinking, dog walking, training the puppies etc and was a very welcome break!!!
Second Weekend
We took some videos of the missiles this weekend, the link is below. Sadly Jem had managed to eat something and given herself really bad sickness and diarrhoea so I had to pull her from racing! I ended up also pulling Elliot from racing so that the rockets and extraset could run together as one team and I could go home earlier as I was coming up to Nottingham rather than back to Bristol. He went down on the Ballisitics team sheet and did a couple of warm ups in the morning, I tried him with two balls but he didn't seem as fast - i took him to the singles lane later to try him again and compare times and I was right as he only managed a 4.9 something although he wasn't as fresh as he had been the weekend before and it was hot but I was still disappointed! The only thing I can think is that when I have his tuggy I call him all the way back but when I was using the two balls I wasn't so I will have to try the two balls but still calling!!
Missiles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AChf5SNDg
So all in all a good week although I was disappointed not to be able to run the second weekend :(
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