Category: Agility

  • Training Thoughts

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    I get such a kick out of running with Kim, we miss all our contacts and get everything wrong but it’s just fab, I love it. She has freaked herself out badly on our seesaw though, she had a crazy fly-off last week on her first run and then was a little cautious for the…

  • New-old camera, Dylan training

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    My camera has been replaced with a shiny new one! After a long argument involving various managers they finally admitted they were wrong. I should get it this evening so I’ll try to get some videos from flyball training tomorrow. Dylan’s weave entry issues seem to be getting resolved, he missed twice at training but…

  • South Durham DAC

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    Saturday was very hectic. Much like last year I knew we were going to have to leave early and I really didn’t want to miss Kim’s agility classes again. To be honest, it would have probably been a faster journey to Lune Valley at Myerscough and therefore I could have stayed later, but I really…

  • Weave Entries, amongst other things

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    We’ve just moved to our winter venue for training and so I was really looking forward to working Dylan as it was a brand new environment for him. Apparently he really likes working indoors! I’ve never had him so enthused or speedy, which was both great and a bit of a worry because I really…

  • Lincoln

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    I really love this show, it’s a great venue and a very relaxed atmosphere. I blame our lack of success on a number of things: 1) we had no Wine Gums on the journey down, and as everyone knows we have to have Wine Gums otherwise everything goes pear-shaped. 2) we saw no Eddie Stobart…

  • Timing Notes

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    So I wasted an hour today doing this. It might be productive, who knows?! My handy reference guide says as a rule, to be competitive at Grade 6/7 you need these kind of times for the obstacles: Aframe: 1.3s Dogwalk: 2.5 Seesaw: 1.2s Weaves: 2.7s Although I’m not entirely sure how that has been worked…

  • Lazy Days

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    Bit of a photo post today, since I haven’t really got much to say. A few shots from over the summer that I never got around to posting, and a few more recent ones. Dylan doesn’t normally have bad training sessions, so Tuesday was quite unusual for him. He was working in a group with…

  • Agility Training/BAA Promotion

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    The BAA Promotion requirements have changed slightly and Dylan is no longer up for automatic promotion, so he can stay in Introductory for another year! This is very good news, especially considering how naughty he was at training yesterday. We have a lot of work to do before he’s going to be ready for Primary…

  • Yorkshire Bouncers

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    YB is always a small, friendly and local show; lots of flyballers present, which helps! Kim Kim had her last set of Primary classes today. We had a really good day, she was a lot more motivated and enthused than she had been for the rest of the summer season, noisy and tugging and listening.…

  • BAA Promotion

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    As I may have mentioned (once or twice maybe!), I’ve been anxiously awaiting the end of year BAA League Tables to see how Kim and Dylan have fared. I was always pretty confident that Kim would be promoted to Novice Jumping due to those 2nd places at the start of the year, and she has…