This last weekend we had a fun match hosted by Wasatch Agility. Our judge was one of our own, in training to be a USDAA agility judge and perfectly qualified for this event.
His courses were great, flowing, requiring some tricky handling and along the UKI type.
I brought Banshee, Grommit and Blink.
Yes, Blink even got to run. Since it was hosted at a place where we train, he was very comfortable with the surroundings and equipment.
He did better than I imagined. He ran Gamblers, did the gamble, but we were overtime, since we had a miscommunication on the course earlier and the buzzer surprised us a bit too early. But I insisted on running the course I made up for him and so we did and he did the gamble beautifully. It was a jump to a teeter to a tunnel. What a good boy.
Then the Standard course he ran perfectly. His contacts were great, he read direction changes spot on. He had a bobble at the weaves, he had too much speed so he ran through them. But since there are no refusals, I called him back and he got them and we finished the course.
By the Snooker time he was frazzled. Then again, Snooker was not the best flowing course for him I could come up with and he got confused and then started second guessing me and just trying to do stuff. He was really trying to do his best.
So we just ran along, finished what we could as if that were the course and got done.
Banshee had blasting runs, great contacts. I am very pleased with her. Her confidence on those has improved. I thought one of her DW contacts was a bit iffy, but others were spot on.
The teeter has improved tremendously as well and we are almost back to her sliding teeter. WooHoo!
The day was fabulous, felt like summer. It was so nice to get out.
On Sunday we had flyball practice and we worked on Blink's striding to the box a bit. This boy is very weird and if something changes on him he can't adjust. We have to be very careful how we tweak stuff with him.
Riot did awesome, she did full recalls with a dog in the other lane and raced like a pro.
We're getting ready to leave for Las Vegas for a flyball tournament and it is going to be a blast.
This is going to be one of those where many clubs come together to help each other out and this type of camaraderie is exactly what flyball is all about to me.
There is really no other dog sport like this.
But before we head out, just as pre-icing on the cake for a fabulous weekend, Banshee and I have another day with Stacy P-G and as always it is a total treat and always a new learning/improving experience.
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