Category: Courses

  • Sequences and Dylan

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    Dylan worked really well at training this week, and I feel like we’re seeing some improvement now. The boy can really move when he wants to, just need to get the handler sorted now. I have to be early with my cues and verbals to get the tight lines, otherwise he just picks a jump…

  • Middlesbrough Flyball

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    The Crazy Cannons always put on a good tournament but we’re not usually very successful! Kim has a 2nd rosette from about 2 years ago and that’s it, which is a shame because the pink and black rosettes look very swish! We got our act together this year and the Owlers had a fantastic day.…

  • Kim has lost her Crazy

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    We had a very disappointing weekend at Shrewsbury. Kim just wasn’t working and I’m actually pretty worried about her, she was very tired and quiet for the whole weekend. Anybody who knows Kim will attest to the fact that she’s a very noisy girl and likes to bark! But this weekend she was heading back…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…