Agility,  Dylan,  Rio,  Training

Same Training

I am determined to keep a record of how Rio does each week at training until she’s 12months at least, but I can’t honestly think of much to say about this week. She was very well behaved, very very tuggy focused, and generally a superstar. We did some tunnel sends and some kips at 8″. She understands the wing wrap concept, so I think I need to add some more distance and probably start increasing the height a little bit now.

Most of the class worked on the V-Weaves but I elected not to with Ri. I think wide-open channel weaves are fine for her at this age, but V-Weaves require a more immediate action. After the epic task that was teaching Kim to weave, I feel like I can train weaves now, so if we don’t start until she’s 14 months that’s fine! I’ll take the same approach I did with Dylan as I love Dyl’s weaves, but a little more spaced out. Dylan ended up learning over the space of a month – 6 weeks, after doing little bits beforehand, and then a few more months building up complexity.

Speaking of, Dyl and I did some productive weave work this week! I tried some fairly drastic rear crosses which he did beautifully, and we layered in the seesaw a few times. I don’t get the same level of confidence from him at competitions, but that is less to do with the weaves and more to do with Dylan being Dyl.

Wigton at the weekend, I’m looking forward to this competition. I would really like Dylan to qualify for the First Contact Final, and I really want Kim’s last G7 win. We’ll need a little bit of luck for both of those, but the dogs are capable and if I’m in the right frame of mind, I am too.