Category: Agility

  • 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…

  • Hare'n'Hounds Easter 2011

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    Theme for the weekend? 12 weaves, in every single class. The judges obviously got way too excited about being able to fit 12 weaves in a course again and used them all the time. I love me some weaves but sometimes it’s nice to do a class that doesn’t involved 12 of them. There are…

  • Review: Cik&Cap, the Easiest Way to Perfect Turns

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    Cik&Cap: the Easiest Way to Perfect Turns (Silvia Trkman) I’m reviewing the DVD version, not the download. Whilst it’s clearly not made to a professional-DVD standard (although really, are any agility dvds?), the quality is good and clear, it’s well edited and Silvia is an informative and engaging presenter. It’s a short dvd, running to…

  • Acceptable Risk

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    I have been thinking on this for a while, after a bit of a twitter debate with friends. Two horses very sadly died this year in the Grand National, leading to a whole bunch of people to say the race is too dangerous and should immediately cease. I ought to begin by saying I don’t…

  • 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…

  • Winter Season Review

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    I spent a couple of hours on Monday reviewing the videos from the weekend, as I always do, but also reviewing the videos from the winter series as a whole. That’s why it took me a couple of hours rather than the usual 15mins. Huge thank yous to my lovely mother for standing and filming…

  • Tailwaggers #5 April

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    Bit of a hit and miss day! I made some silly handling errors all day, my personal mental management was way off. I looked after the dogs and worked them around the courses, but I made some handling decisions that I really shouldn’t have. Dylan is always very forgiving and bailed me out a couple…

  • 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…

  • Hare'n'Hounds Valentines

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    I seem to remember saying back in November that I wouldn’t run three dogs again. Well, I did, and it was better – either because I was prepared for the chaos, or because everything just ran more smoothly! Kim ran her G4-7 Agility first, had a lovely run on an interesting course, and won it.…

  • Tailwaggers #4

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    I still can’t muster any enthusiasm with hindsight for this show. I didn’t like the 2-runs-at-each-course format any better than I did 4 years ago when I last did it, it was still really boring. I’m not convinced it really made me improve my handling; I ran both courses better the second time (who didn’t?!)…