The Blog
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I want to try and video all our sessions, mostly so I can criticize my timing, which is generally awful.
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Things to Do at Christmas
Rio did her first half-course this week and I was very happy. It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t clean, but it was awesome. I love it when things start to come together. It was also her first time out in…
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Rio Agility Training
This is more of a record-keeping blog post, I have nothing very interesting to say! Contacts are looking good, must be more focused about rewarding Must work more on driving ahead down lines/picking up obstacles Set point exercises for Medium/Standard…
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Mollie + Rally
I sort of forgot to post and say that in a moment of madness, I started taking Mollie to Rally classes. My original plan was to take Rio, but I’m still waiting for her to come into season (as well…
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Wyre 2012
I do like this show. I say this every year and it continues being true. All the courses this weekend were … easy though, except the C6-7 Agility. They all presented minor challenges but nothing really testing. That was sort…
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Hare'n'Hounds Christmas 2012
It has taken me a few days to think on how Dylan and I did this past weekend. I even told people that I didn’t want to discuss it; I needed time to consider. I still need some time to…
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All Things Being Equal
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in AgilityLots and lots of talk about the fourth jump height proposals, here in the UK. Not many people blogging about it; maybe because they’re just being cautious. Before I say anything else, I don’t think the height can be an…
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Contacts
We did some Aframe work this week at training, either in full or in bits. Rio hasn’t yet seen a full Aframe, but I don’t expect that for a while. I am beginning to backchain her 2o2o on a sloped…
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Time Flies
Where has the time gone since my last blog post?! I am very happy to report Rio’s target training is now rolling along at a good pace. I took it back to basics and we did some shaping, and she’s…
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Target Training, Amongst Other Things
Rio’s target reminder sessions are not going well. I am writing this post to remind myself not to move on until I am 100% happy with what I’m seeing, and I’m not. Also, we can’t have six months off and…