Graduation, upcoming EMDAC, Mollie can Jump!
I graduated on Monday — I’m now officially a graduate of the University of Leeds! I finished with a 2:1 in Classical Civilizations, I’m really chuffed. Unfortunately I now have to find a job and stop lazing around, very sad. My parents did get me a gift on Monday and so now I have my own camera and don’t need to keep borrowing my sisters. It’s not a big posh one but a cute little Kodak that suits me just fine, I have no excuse for not videoing the dogs now.
Firstly though I’m off to EMDAC tomorrow! I love their Midsummer Madness show, it’s a lot of fun and I’m running all three dogs this year. I have enough trouble just running Kim, so it’ll be interesting! Mollie is only doing 1 run a day in the Veterans Jumping classes to give her something to do, but I think she’s going to have more fun doing the Dash n Splash.
I don’t know how Dylan will handle doing a full 4-day show, but I’ve entered him in everything and we’ll just see how it goes. Thankfully he isn’t high enough up the League tables to be considered for promotion at the end of this season (he’s currently just out of the top-100 and he needs to be in the top-50 to get promoted), so even if we do manage to get some placings he’ll still be Introductory next year. Good news for us! Kim, on the other hand, is almost definitely going to get promoted to Novice in Jumping, and is just outside the top-25 for promotion in Agility, so we’ll have to try and get our act together for those points. I’d rather run at the same level for both, I’m not sure I can handle running Dylan in Intro, Kim in Primary Jumping and Kim in Novice Agility!
Finally, whilst playing with the props I realised that a) the ramp is almost the exact width of the height of a standard agility jump, and b) Dylan has never negotiated a wall. It’s very unlikely that one will crop up but you never know, so we improvised a bit and after a bit of persuasion he was clearing it nicely. Hopefully if we ever encounter a wall in a class we’ll be able to tackle it with some confidence now!
Whilst it was out, Mollie decided she wanted to play. So here is proof that TheMol can actually jump full height obstacles, albeit it is “solid” and there aren’t 18 to negotiate.
Haven’t quite worked out the settings on the new camera yet, hence why it’s a bit grainy and out of focus.
2 Comments
Vicki
Congrats!!
We’re off to EMDAC too although I’m only doing Thurs and Fri as I’m at Empingham at the weekend – (and finally grade 3!)
how does the promotion work for EMDAC?
Leanne
Hopefully I’ll see you on Thurs/Fri then! I’d have liked to do High Peak at the weekend but petrol is too expensive at the moment, but good luck at Empingham! I’m sure Pippa will be fantastic in Grade 3.
The promotion at BAA shows isn’t too complicated 😀 Agility and Jumping are seperate progressions (Katie’s Poppy works Primary in Jumping and Intro in Agility, you can technically work Masters in one and still be Intro in the other), with the top 10% of the Agility/Jumping League Tables automatically being promoted at the end of the year. It’s compulsory promotion and all your classes are updated for any future shows you’ve entered.
There is still the “normal” win-based progression, which requires 2 wins to move up (2 Agility wins to go up in Agility, 2 Jumping to go up in Jumping), but it’s not compulsory. Kim had 3 agility wins by the end of last season but we were winning the Intro MDOTY award, and if we’d moved up to Primary in Agility she would have gone into the Primary MDOTY League which she wouldn’t have won. Most people tend to choose to move up though, especially if they aren’t going for one of the DOTY awards.
I have a feeling I made that sound a lot more complicated than it really is! Pippa will definitely move up to Primary next year, but I don’t think Inca will.