Category: Training

  • Sticky Summer

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    Very humid at training this week. Always intended this week to be an “easy” week, confidence boosting for dogs and handlers. We did short, easy sequences (6-8 obstacles) on a one-shot basis (you get one go, and then on to the next sequence). This is brilliant for G1-3 dogs, or for G5 dogs who need…

  • Training

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    I have really unimaginative post titles at the moment. It’s hard to come up with stuff like that! Patience on rebuilding seesaw confidence has paid off, we had no run-bys this week and it was actually a faster seesaw than before (albeit without a stop, but I’m not worried about that). Didn’t push and do…

  • HnH Easter Thoughts

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    Somebody (think it was Julie) said this weekend that Dylan just can’t let go, and that’s exactly it. He is so much better now than even 12 months ago, but even when he’s at his most relaxed and most confident, he’s still not giving 100%. If Dylan was a person, he’d be an accountant. He’d…

  • Busy Busy

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    Seesaw work this week. Some improvement but I have a list of things still left to work on. I’ve also been working on introducing tighter turns, ala Silvia Trkman. We’ve done lots of work at home (and on walks, etc etc) but Dyl actually had a lot of the basic skills already, it was just…

  • Run & Training

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    I have discovered a slight flaw in my well-considered fitness and conditioning plan, in that Kim is too smart for her own good. She now refuses to run for the first toy now, and will only run for the second, meaning Mollie is doing twice as much work. I probably should have seen that one…

  • Summer

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    My pledge to try and blog more often is currently not really working out. I do have the very good excuse, like the rest of the country, that there has been the warm, hazy hint of summer around and we’ve been basking in what might be the only sun we see all year. We seem…

  • Fitness and Conditioning

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    There was a brief discussion at the seminar regarding conditioning and fitness, although it wasn’t a feature. It did get me thinking though! One of the points emphasised is that flyball practice shouldn’t be fitness training, it should be purely about training the dogs to flyball. I’m not sure I entirely agree with that; I…

  • Tug Drive

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    I’ve been working hard on Dylan’s tug drive and ball obsession since the Rocket Relay seminar. Not making huge progress on the ball obsession, but it’s getting better. I’m finding it a little difficult at the moment as I’ve got a 6ft square to work in and it’s a bit tight! A couple of times,…

  • Rocket Relay Seminar

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    I haven’t updated the blog for a while and it’s not because I have too little to say! I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks with and without the dogs, including the Rocket Relay seminar last weekend (organised by Katie and Kristian from http://www.flyballfever.co.uk/). I don’t think I’ve learnt so much from one weekend…

  • Change Year

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    My mother and I have been calling this year a “change year” for flyball, because we know that by the end of 2011 our teams will look very different. We have a great set of puppies and new starters who will be hitting their stride over the autumn and summer, ready to start jostling for…