Category: Agility

  • Full Circle

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    After last week’s bad training session, we had a great time this week. We had a fun set up for courses that involved a tight boxwork section, which then opened out into a huge loop of weaves-tunnel-jump-long jump. Made for lots of running! Both Dylan and I really enjoyed it, and we got a lot…

  • Winter Agility Season

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    I know I’m lucky to have good, competitive shows at KC and BAA within travelling distance all year round. It’s got better and better every year, and this year I’m actually getting to pick and choose which shows we go to! We’re at Hare’n’Hounds next time because I love their shows, they always have a…

  • Lune Valley

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    I’m cautiously optimistic about saying that Dylan really likes working indoors. His runs at Lune were all smooth, fast and – at the end – slightly bonkers. I’m happy to roll with this! I’m normally at South Durham this weekend, but the classes weren’t as nice for Grade 4 dogs, and I’m not a huge…

  • Bouncing out of Grade 4 at Ribble

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    Ribble was such a nice show! So relaxed and lovely courses from the judges, just really nice. Obviously a bit of a busy weekend nationally, I know people who were at Easington, Bromsgrove and somewhere in Wales?! Thankfully we were indoors, unlike all those other people, and a good job too because it rained all…

  • BAA Finals Weekend

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    Saturday was a little weird. Dylan wasn’t running at his best, stuttering a little through certain jump sequences and just generally floating around and distracted. We were E’d in the Jumping Qualifier, and then came 3rd in everything else. I’m still not quite sure what was going on! Kim finished out of the placings in…

  • A Mixture of Things

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    The dogs are all still flying about at flyball, but I’m looking forward to finally getting back to agility this weekend. After a nailbiting couple of weeks, Dylan has qualified for the Agility and Jumping Finals, and I’ve purposely kept Kim out of the Qualifiers to make sure she doesn’t qualify (although there is a…

  • Scunthorpe

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    I feel like the title of this post should really be “That was Unexpected”, since the whole show was definitely so. I went hoping to see how Dylan would measure up in Grade 4, and let Kim have a blast in the 1-7 classes she had. I suppose I did achieve that, just not quite…

  • Leagues & Qualifying

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    [singlepic id=251 w=320 h=240 float=none] I didn’t quite get the points I wanted from the EMDAC show. Dylan needed to be top-8 to qualify for both the Agility and Jumping Grand Prix Finals, and we are 13th in the Agility and 8th in the Jumping. So, we’re comfortably into the Jumping Final on that, but…

  • EMDAC Midsummer Madness

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    Hmm, where do I start?! Thursday. Thursday … happened. EMDAC always run the Thursday classes in the evening, usually starting around 5pm and finishing around 8:30-9. It’s usually fantastic, running on cool summer evenings and under the floodlights. It started so well … I elected to run Kim NFC in Introductory for Thursday. I can…

  • High Peak (Bye Grade 3!)

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    A long, long time ago, Kim got her first ever placing at High Peak (a 9th, in Elementary Jumping, when the jump heights were 30″ and she was still a big dog). So there has always been a big star next to the name in the show diary, but for various reasons we’ve never made…