Tag: agility

  • Timing Notes

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    It’s been a long while since I’ve looked at Dylan’s obstacle times. A whole year, in fact! As always, brutally honest times taken from the moment of first contact with the obstacle to the moment the front paw(s) hit the ground. Averages in bold, all times taken from competition runs within the last three months…

  • Getting a Kick

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    There is nothing more exciting than planning and plotting and worrying, formulating a strict plan and 15minutes after finally taking the plunge and putting into action, seeing results. Well, maybe it wasn’t quite so dramatic as that. I have been encouraging Dylan to stretch and extend into his jumping for months, but it does seem…

  • Dylan's Jumping

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    There’s always something. Dylan’s weaves are good right now, his seesaw is fast and although his dogwalk and aframe still need more work, they’ve improved. But now … jumping. This has been bothering me for a long time, actually, but I haven’t been quite sure where to start, or even whether it’s just me seeing…

  • EMDAC Winter 01

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    EMDAC were the only people in the country yesterday not to cancel their show because of the snow. Which seemed like an excellent plan to me, until 7:30 in the morning when we were skidding wildly on the A1 in blizzard like conditions. The A1 was almost completely covered and the road to the venue…

  • Tailwaggers #01

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    Very nearly the coldest I have ever been in my life. I have only been colder once, and that was at EMDAC’s 50th Show. I actually think the temperature was lower this time (suffice to say we didn’t get above freezing), but I had twice the layers on. Dylan also thought it was bloody cold.…

  • Course Plans

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    [nggallery id=8 template=caption] Please note course plans are from memory/video/doodles on the day, and are replicated here without permission of the original course designer/judge.

  • Can't Won't Fail

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    This is what we worked on at training this week. It was fun! It was also not intended to be as difficult as it was; on paper, we thought it was pretty simple, but then we all tried it and suddenly it was not quite so easy. Everybody initially ran it with the handler basically…

  • Wyre Agility

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    This is my traditional end-of-year show now, I think! We’ve done it since 2004, it was the first show that Kim properly behaved at and I felt relaxed and we just had fun. The year after, we came 4th in the Starters Agility Challenge, her best ever placing as a Large Dog. The year after…

  • Wilmslow Agility

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    For the first time at a competition, I had my crazy little man with me! Combined 3-5 Agility was a lovely course, challenging enough but flowed really nicely. I was a bit worried about Dylan because he’s only ever done one show at Myerscough before, when he found the whole atmosphere very stressful. This weekend…

  • Lazy November

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    Dylan and I had a really lazy training session this week, which was a very bad of me considering we have Wilmslow this weekend, which is our first competition in 6 weeks and we probably should have done some more serious training. I had intended to be good and work on wing wraps and proofing…