I had hotel reservations for over a month, I had registered for the last needed qualifying waves and for the championships just in case. But I really didn't decide to go until about Wednesday night.
Kinda late, I know. I wasn't sure how Blink was going to feel just ten days after a seizure.
But Wednesday came and he seemed to be doing just fine.
So out came the suitcase and bags and I started packing for the 3-day trip.
Banshee - my co-pilot, Blink - the champ and Riot-the must try everything in life and I headed out towards St. George on late Thursday afternoon. After a night there we headed to Las Vegas early Friday morning and arrived at the Pro-Bass Stores and the site around 9am, just in time to set up and check in.
First wave was at 11am and Blink earned his 5th and last qualifying leg for the Pro-division.
I tried one more wave with him at noon and he earned a 4th qualifying leg for the Extreme division. One more and we could be jumping with the Big Guns :-)
Well, unfortunately I noticed shortly after that he started limping and I discovered that he had shredded his rear pads on the parking lot asphalt.
GREAT! Two more days of jumping and he's already handicapped.
Well, nothing that vet wrap can't fix and for the rest of the weekend Blink was sporting awesome green booties on his hind feet and didn't even care.
I think he even liked them ;-)
So I pulled him from the last wave where I was hoping to get the last Extreme Q leg and decided to just stay in the Pro division for which he was already fully qualified.
Saturday he jumped in the semis and qualified 5th for the finals, with the top 12 going through to Sunday, out of 25 pro competitors. It was tough.
His finals jumps were awesome (23'9" and 23'1") which secured him a third place finish and some really cool prizes.
Very fitting ALL green prizes - bag, frisbee and ballto match his green life vest
All in all, it was a great weekend. Other teams from Utah did awesome as well, it was way fun to see so many personal bests and so many accomplishments. The dogs were on fire.
Here's a small video compilation of Blink's 3 jumps, before the finals.
We headed home Sunday night, slept in St George and drove up home leaving beautiful fall weather behind and being hit head on by winter.
UGH.
On a side note, Riot is a freaking riot and a maniac on the dock. There is no stopping this girl. Once she figured out the jumping off the dock part on Friday, I couldn't keep her off the dock. She's now totally obsessed with dock diving, going from 7 ft jumps to almost 15ft by the end of the weekend.
This girl will be competing in dock diving for sure! Never seen anyone have so much fun doing this. I think she even tops Blink with her enthusiasm on the dock.
Look out all Lap Dogs, here comes Riot in 2011!!!!
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