Category: Agility

  • A Mid-Life Crisis on Behalf of Kim

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    I’m finally getting organised with all my show entries for the next couple of months. Shrewsbury entry went in a few weeks ago, and then this weekend I also sent in my EMDAC April and May entries, and my Waldridge Fell entry. The EMDAC July is almost ready to go, just debating on how long…

  • Dogs on Top, March 1st

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    Yesterday was definitely a day of extremes! I had six classes, four with Kim and two with Dylan. All the courses were reasonable – the Open Tunnel Vision was really tough and I’m so glad I didn’t enter Dyl! – but I thought all the others were either lovely or at least do-able. How wrong…

  • Dylan & Jet at Sunday Training

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    Bit of a late update about Sunday! Dylan and Jet both worked really well. The course was the Combined 1-3 Tuffstuff Qualifier [eta: I stand corrected, it’s either the Small and/or Medium Combined 1-3 Agility] from Newton Heath, which we didn’t go to but some of the people in our class had. I’ve drawn it…

  • The 4-6 Sequence

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    On reading the Obay Shelties blog I went and had a quick play with Kim outside on the 4-6 sequence, originally from the US World Team Tryout Course (2006). Now, we don’t have an Aframe, but I was aiming for a certain direction with her and so you’ll have to presume I was doing it…

  • Top 3 Shows

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    I’m just sending in a bunch of entries for the shows at the beginning of the summer season, and I’m keeping a sharp eye out for certain schedules. I haven’t been competing regularly or for long enough to have shows that are really unmissable, but there are some that I am always determined to enter…

  • High Peak Rosette 2003

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    This is one of the many reasons why I love High Peak, and why I’m sad that I can’t make it this year. (Direct quote from my old Livejournal) 09th August 2005 My excitement knows no bounds. This morning, a mysteriously fat envelope, of the bubble-wrapped kind, arrived pour moi. Much puzzlement was mine as…

  • Training at the Park

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    Dylan and I are finally clicking! We had such a good training session today, even with minimal equipment! I managed to take 1 jump and 6 weaves to the park, and the boy was flying. He’s got crazy-fast weaves, and we’re able to read each other better so he understands what I want him to…

  • Dogs On Top

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    First show of the month! Katie was supposed to be coming with her hounds too but a couple of inches of snow and she bailed out. I have to admit at some points in the day I wish I’d stayed in bed too! First run of the day was Open Time Gamblers. Part of me…

  • Dylan's Blog: Sunday Training

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    Sunday was a mixed bag at training. I didn’t take Kim with me because I figured she needed a week off, we had a pretty hectic January. So just me and the tall boy! We started off really well, working on the 12 channel weaves about 1″ apart, and on a basic flick-flack. Flick-flacks are…

  • EMDAC January

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    Dylan’s first show! I’m very proud of him, he did far better than I expected him to. We were E’d in Power & Speed because they threw 12 weaves in and as Dylan has never done 12 upright weaves, I wasn’t expecting much! He did 8 happily but then was a bit confused, but his…