Sticky Summer

Very humid at training this week. Always intended this week to be an “easy” week, confidence boosting for dogs and handlers. We did short, easy sequences (6-8 obstacles) on a one-shot basis (you get one go, and then on to the next sequence). This is brilliant for G1-3 dogs, or for G5 dogs who need to get their confidence back, or other G5 dogs who are coming back from injury and need to get back in tune with their handlers. Everyone comes away feeling positive, and it helps to stop people obsessing over negatives. We talked a lot about being able to run a course, discussing what happened, and then letting it go before running the next course. Taking away things to work on is important, but seeing the next course as a fresh and seperate challenge is also important.

I need to work on this as well.

Dylan was brilliant. We had fun, it was smooth and easy and Dyl was floating over everything with big, powerful jumps. No worries. We’ll see how it goes at the weekend when we’re working with dogs he doesn’t know. Bakewell is normally good to us.