The Blog
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I love Sheffield tournaments. The Speeders are a great bunch of flyballers and they always run a good competition, with lovely rosettes and fast results. The venue is great, just a shame about the location. Three cars were broken into…
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Agility Nuts
Finally back on form with Kim – EMDAC (Oct) and Wyre (Dec) were a bit down, just one 4th in the end despite a couple of good runs – but she decided to start 2008 with a bang. She came…
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Dylan’s Blog: Weave Training (again!)
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in Dylan’s BlogOver Christmas Dylan finally clicked with the weaves, I’m so pleased! After the issues we had when I closed up the gap I was going to leave them spaced apart from a while longer, but one day it all just…
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2007 Review
I know, it’s only December and the New Year is a whole three weeks away, but I’ve finished competing and training for the year so I thought it was an appropriate time to look back over the doggy year. Kim…
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Christmas!
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in PersonalThe dogs aren’t overly impressed with the whole Christmas thing at the moment, but we’re getting there! Dylan does have a bit of a fetish for oven mitts though, and the new “festive” pair we bought yesterday are already looking…
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Dylan's Blog: Weaves
Weaves are the bane of my existence at the moment! I love seeing weaves in classes and they’re one of Kim’s favourite obstacles, but I’d forgotten how much I hate training them! I suppose that’s a bit of an exaggeration.…
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Dylan's Blog: Training Update
Just a quick update on Dylan’s blog. It’s been an immensely stressful and exhausting beginning to the month, and all the dogs have had to take a back seat. However, Dylan and I managed to find a half hour to…
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Doncaster Flyball Tournament & Wyre Agility
Wyre I’m not sure I want to talk about Wyre! We had a nice day but for the first two runs I just didn’t get my head sorted. The courses were fair but erred on the easier side and we…
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Weaves
Really made some progress with the weaves today. I took them back to being about 3/4″ apart, and worked on entries first. We finished with a couple of 20ft run-ins, very pleased with that! Clean Run had a useful article…
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Dylan's See Saw
Dylan went to Wakefield this weekend on his own, which was a very enlightening experience! He definitely doesn’t get as worked up when he’s training on his own, but he still finds the whole thing quite exciting. It was definitely…