Category: Agility

  • An Essay Writing Diversion: Kim and Dylan

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    I really should be writing my essays right now, especially because I entered Shrewsbury this weekend knowing full-well that my essays would be due in next week. Just another 3500 words to go … Dylan and I had a horrible training session yesterday. I was going to post about it in an attempt to try…

  • "Real Shows"

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    There have been some comments on the Agility Form regarding the approach to independent and Kennel Club shows. I feel very strongly about this, and it annoys me no end when people refer to Kennel Club shows as the “real thing” and independent as “training” or “practise” shows. I’m mainly referring to BAA or UKA…

  • Reflections on Course Design

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    Having a couple of days to reflect on this weekends EMDAC has left me more upbeat than I was before. Kim really did run very well on Sunday and the courses really weren’t her style. I didn’t really appreciate it on the day but the Primary courses were really considerably easier than the Introductory ones.…

  • EMDAC April 08

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    Arg, what a horrible weekend. It’s weekends like this that make me want to walk away and not bother any more! Kim Saturday didn’t start well, Kim was very flat in her Clockwork Tunnels and it basically got worse from there! We didn’t get a decent clear round until the last run of the day…

  • Flyball, Agility, youTube Magic

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    After all the chaos with Dylan’s box at Selby, I wasn’t entirely looking forward to training again! But (typical dog!) he was absolutely paw-perfect on his turns. Well, almost. 4/5 times he has a perfect swimmers turn, and then on the 5th run he does something entirely new and unexpected. It’s very frustrating! I now…

  • Agility Mental Block

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    I was at a small athletics meeting today (at the English Institute of Sport, which is such a gorgeous indoor track!) that our club held as part of the celebrations for the centenary year. I saw “our club” here, I’m not technically a member any more and at no point in my life have I…

  • That Call

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    I don’t follow the USA competitions too closely, but I know that the European Open Trials for the UK and USA are next month and I thought that maybe the AKC Nationals would give a good idea of which dogs we might see competing against us at the Open. And then the agility world imploded…

  • How to Make Homemade Agility Jumps (Part One)

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    With pictures! We bought our wood from B&Q yesterday, and it cost the princely sum of £11.47 (the nails cost the most, typically!) and we bought treated timber. Each peice is 2.4m long, and we bought three 5cm x 2.5cm, two 3.5 x 2.5, and two 10 x 2.5 planks. This easily made us 2…

  • Go Team!

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    It seems whilst we had an average weekend, everyone else went off and won things! My biggest congratulations to Alice and her gorgeous Cocker/Springer Spaniel Sammy who won the NAWS Class B Medium/Small Championship. Sammy is not the easiest dog in the world, he’s very all-or-nothing, but he finished up this weekend by winning the…

  • Weaving Video

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    Finally managed to get some decent video of Dylan weaving today! Took the jump and the weaves down to the park for 15 mins. Or for those of you who are able to view the videos via Windows Media Player (or equivalent), there’s a much more clean version here: http://www.undermybed.co.uk/images/dylanweaving001.wmv As always, Dylan is always…