AKC Agility Trial - March 19 & March 20

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Silaria

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This weekend is my first AKC trial in nearly a year. Today was a pretty good day. We scored a Q and first place on our Open FAST and Excellent A Standard run; my first Excellent A Q.

My Excellent A Jumpers with Weaves run, on the other hand, continues to suffer from handler stupidity. This time I pulled Edan off a jump by moving before he was committed to it. Basically I had to wait for him to run to me and simply moved too early.

I actually do have video! :smile2: Sorry about the finger on my JWW one. DH wasn't there today to run my camera so I friend of mine too the video. When folks are nice enough to run my camera for me, I don't complain.

Open FAST: http://youtu.be/WdrGkI-Uhd8
Excellent A Std: http://youtu.be/m6RvDgggl8o
Excellent A JWW: http://youtu.be/JJ6LZviqBlA

More tomorrow when I get home.
 
Day 2 of my AKC trial.

Well, the day didn't start off stellar. I had a major case of Handler FAIL in my Standard run. Edan and I got through the hardest part of the course (obstacles 4-7) without any problem. Then, on a simple 180 degree turn to the teeter I front cross WAY to early and fail to line Edan up for the teeter; I line MYSELF up instead. :o Edan, however, did exactly what he's supposed to do when presented with a front cross and that was to move to my opposite side (from my right side to my left in this case). (Video: http://youtu.be/qxZnRlbLanc)

I got a chance to redeem myself on my JWW run. We finally scored our first ExA JWW Q! It was a typical tight and twisty course but had a very nice flow. (Video: http://youtu.be/uk055CgVNMk)

Finally, I got to try Time 2 Beat for the first time. We had a clean run but, unfortunately, never had a chance to have the 'time to beat'. The time was set by the first 16 inch dog on course - a Border Collie. NONE of the remaining 16 inch dogs came close to its time. Edan's time wasn't great but I'm still overall happy with the run at the end of a long day and weekend. (Video: http://youtu.be/KX286IBr7TE)

Next trial on my list: CPE in two weeks.
 
Good job Sherry and Edan. Congrats on your first AXJ leg.

Don't you just hate it when you ruin a perfectly good run for your dog. I did that to Diva 2x last time I showed her and boy did Diva chew me out.

It a wonder your dogs put up with us. :lol: Oh well we are only human. Good luck on your up coming CPE trial.
 
What a lovely JWW run! Towards the end, Edan was really moving! Nice job!

And don't worry too much about the early FC. We all make mistakes, and the timing of crosses like that is really hard.
 
Justicemom said:
Don't you just hate it when you ruin a perfectly good run for your dog. I did that to Diva 2x last time I showed her and boy did Diva chew me out.

It a wonder your dogs put up with us. :lol: Oh well we are only human. Good luck on your up coming CPE trial.
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:lol: I do hate that! But when it all works the way it should it's poetry in motion. I guess if we didn't make mistakes it would be more difficult to find what we need to improve on.

corbinam said:
What a lovely JWW run! Towards the end, Edan was really moving! Nice job!

And don't worry too much about the early FC. We all make mistakes, and the timing of crosses like that is really hard.
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Thanks, Ashley. I was trilled to finally get a clean JWW run. We'd been, for the most part, under time but always with a fault of some sort. Getting this first JWW Ex Q felt amazing!
 
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