Thursday 21 February 2008

Training last night



Thanks Nancy, I was having a blonde moment and couldn't work that out!




We're not quite back in our training area as i don't want to mess it up before the spring and it has rubbish drainage, so we are using the not so flat paddock next to it. This means we can't quite fit in so much equipment as normal but last night we worked on this little course with a group of dogs that ranged from Dan and his Gr1 CKCS to little Kate and Phoebe who is Gr6 (by default, there was no weaves in the jumping that she won and 6 in the agility)



Here's a copy of the course






We broke the course down in to 3 sections first so they could work any problems they had. Some of the dogs had a spin after the tunnel the first couple of times so we worked on that and the aframe to number 6 was tricky if the handlers had to stay right in at the bottom of the aframe. Everyone worked the bottom of the dogwalk well depending on their style and those that were able ran accross to the gap between 13 and 14 before releasing their contacts. This went well especailly for a couple of people who had put in loads of work on independant contacts over the winter. I have to say Dan's CKCS was the star and seems to LOVE frosty evenings, maybe we'll have to find him an ice jacket for the summer!



Leslie then came out and moved one jump for Bill and Tig, I was abit cold by then but both boys worked well.



2 comments:

leah gardner said...

My god your courses are horrible!!!! That's wrose than what I make my lot do! x Leah

Sarah and Leslie said...

Hey they didn't think so, I'll admit Leslie's adjustment was awful but that was only for Billy and Tig. I rarely ask him to set anything as he has some weird ideas!