Timing Notes (again)
I did this in September after reviewing my summer season videos, and since I actually managed to remember to take my camera to training (plus a few clips from EMDAC in November/January) I now have a new set of data. How exciting!
Well, not really. Dylan’s dogwalk in particular was really improving but has slowed down again since the accident in December, and for some reason he wasn’t too happy with the seesaw this week either. No Aframe as we didn’t get it out in training and it’s not worth working out an average from the 2 times I have from EMDAC.
Dylan
Dogwalk: 3.39 [5.15] (4.13, 3.40, 3.27, 3.26, 3.33, 3.00)
Seesaw: 1.95 [3.52] (2.13, 1.73, 1.97, 2.00)
12 Weaves: 2.58 [n/a] (2.34, 2.46, 2.25, 3.13, 2.73)
Previous average times in [square brackets]. He’s improved by over a second on each of the previous average times I took, and we need to improve by another second or so to be seriously competitive. I feel like we were considerably faster a month ago, so if we can get back to that and apply it in competition, I think we might be ok.
Weaves could do with a smidge of improvement, but that’s more to do with me being a perfectionist. The times are fine, but I think Dylan could be powering into the entries a little more than he is.
Kim
Dogwalk:3.05 [3.09] (4.13, 3.01, 2.67, 2.40)
Seesaw: 2.48 [2.73] (2.40, 3.07, 2.60, 2.00mc, 2.33)
Her seesaw, surprisingly (!) also seems to have marginally improved, but I have done a lot of experimenting with where I’m stood etc to see what works best.
VIDEO: Kim’s Dogwalk
I want to keep track of this over the next couple of months and see if we can improve again. I’m not sure how much difference this will make in competition for Kim, especially as consistency rather than speed has always been our problem. I’m fairly confident it will make a difference for Dylan’s results, but I’ve known for ages that we need to speed up his contact performance to make any impact.
7 Comments
Katie
Lol what beautiful black and pink equipment you have there! Where on earth did you get it? 😛
Wish I could come to training more often, Jet’s getting worried!!
Leanne
Isn’t it pretty?!
Jet is doing really well for your mum, but she definitely needs her real handler back soon to improve her contacts and her weaves! (which are super fast but totally reckless) 😉 😆
Katie
Yes I’ve heard about Jet’s weave destroying skills, she just lives life at 100mph lol, what can y’do?! 😛
Her really handler will be back soon – in the meantime someone sort her contacts or my Mum out!
Ems
AHA iv already got my dad and cousin on a summer project to make us proper bases for the weavies!! 🙂
Brenda
I found these weave times from an ancient copy of Clean Run (maybe 3 years ago, so could have ‘improved’ since then) and thought you might be interested:
3.00 seconds = Getting there
2.75 seconds = fast
2.50 seconds = Exceptional
2.25 seconds = Among the best.
Brenda
Leanne
Thanks Brenda! I’ve never seen that for weave times before — I guess they’ll be a bit faster now but Dylan seems on track with something then. 😉
Katie
Lol and what do Jet’s crazy 2second weaves fall into….apart from broken equipment :$