Category: Agility

  • Agility Nuts

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    Finally back on form with Kim – EMDAC (Oct) and Wyre (Dec) were a bit down, just one 4th in the end despite a couple of good runs – but she decided to start 2008 with a bang. She came 2nd in both jumping classes, missing out on 1st in the Jumping by 0.3 seconds…

  • 2007 Review

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    I know, it’s only December and the New Year is a whole three weeks away, but I’ve finished competing and training for the year so I thought it was an appropriate time to look back over the doggy year. Kim has had an amazing year in agility. We won out of Introductory (BAA) and Grade…

  • Dylan's Blog: Weaves

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    Weaves are the bane of my existence at the moment! I love seeing weaves in classes and they’re one of Kim’s favourite obstacles, but I’d forgotten how much I hate training them! I suppose that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I love training with Dylan, and the small milestones we hit are worth the trouble,…

  • Dylan's Blog: Training Update

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    Just a quick update on Dylan’s blog. It’s been an immensely stressful and exhausting beginning to the month, and all the dogs have had to take a back seat. However, Dylan and I managed to find a half hour to do some training in today, and we had a lovely session. I didn’t have any…

  • Doncaster Flyball Tournament & Wyre Agility

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    Wyre I’m not sure I want to talk about Wyre! We had a nice day but for the first two runs I just didn’t get my head sorted. The courses were fair but erred on the easier side and we missed a weave entry on one (bit of a shock, we haven’t done that for…

  • Weaves

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    Really made some progress with the weaves today. I took them back to being about 3/4″ apart, and worked on entries first. We finished with a couple of 20ft run-ins, very pleased with that! Clean Run had a useful article in October that I’ve only just got around to reading, I’d never thought about doing…

  • Dylan's See Saw

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    Dylan went to Wakefield this weekend on his own, which was a very enlightening experience! He definitely doesn’t get as worked up when he’s training on his own, but he still finds the whole thing quite exciting. It was definitely an afternoon of ups and downs – the weaves and the seesaw went brilliantly, but…

  • Friday

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    Friday is my day off from university, so I was able to fit some training in with Kim and Dylan. Actually, there are two things wrong with that sentence! I am supposed to use Fridays for catching up with reading and prep-work, so it’s not really a day off, and when I say “training” ……

  • Barking Dogs

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    There’s a bit of a debate over on the Agility Forum at the moment about dogs barking in queues at competitions. If I have a quiet Kim on my hands, I know we’re not going to have a good run. So I want her to bark. I have a dog who isn’t always hyper-motivated (or…

  • Agility Training

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    It’s been a frustrating couple of days with Dylan. I’ve been really happy with his contact work until now; he has been extremely good with the 2o/2o on the dogwalk, and his 4off for the Aframe has been working really well. I have to admit I had slacked off on practising the 4off touch-target behaviour,…