The 4-6 Sequence

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 right!

The 2 front crosses did not work for us! I’m just not quick enough and Kim isn’t a big tunnel fan so I have to run quite close to the entrance with her. She does have a really strong out command so staying on the take-off side of the jumps and keeping her on my left with a rear cross at the right wing of 6 worked relatively well. However, our trump card was this!

Instead of putting the front cross at the right wing of 5, I layered the jump, running parallel with Kim past the wings and then turning to bring her over 5 and round over 6, with a rear cross at 7. It’s basically a front cross at the left wing rather than the right. This was the only way that worked for us first time!

I’m going to have a fun day tomorrow as I’m taking both Dylan and Jet to agility training at Wakefield. I think Katie is trying to kill me before Dogs on Top next weekend!