Tag: weaves

  • Dylan’s Blog: Weave Training (again!)

    Over 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 came together. He hasn’t quite decided whether or not to bounce or left/right step, and…

  • 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. I love training with Dylan, and the small milestones we hit are worth the trouble,…

  • 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 do some training in today, and we had a lovely session. I didn’t have any…

  • 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 in October that I’ve only just got around to reading, I’d never thought about doing…

  • Dylan's Blog – May

    Puppy has been having a busy few weeks! He spent the first weekend in May in kennels with Mollie, due to a whole crop of unforseen circumstances. Kim and I were competing (badly!) at Shrewsbury and the rest of the family were in Blackpool or Doncaster, and in the end, we decided it was better…