Free live streaming for the AKC Agility Nationals

Enjoying watching rally between jobs today. Heck, me & Mel can do THAT. I am too hard on her . . . and myself.
 
Sharon said:
I think they did a great job.Agility Vision use to do it.I wonder what happened.Alot of big names didn't make it .Some dogs were so slow.
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Of the runs I saw Preferred had an abundance of "slower" dogs but, at least by the Challengers round onwards I didn't see too many really slow dogs in the Regular class.

When it comes to AKC Nationals they favor the consistent dogs and unfortunately that encourages a large number of teams with little chance of winning to enter. OTOH the number of dogs admitted into the Final round is based on a percentage of the number of dogs entered in the competition for that class, so without such a large entry you end up with a very small number of dogs qualifying for the Final round. Just look at the classes with only 4 dogs allowed.

I wasn't there so I don't know what the surface was like in those rings. In my experience surface conditions is typically the biggest contributor to the speed of dogs running -- our YPS and others we know are often between 1-1.5YPS slower on a dirt surface than a grass/turf surface.

Also, some of the courses I saw really didn't need a lot of handler motion in many of the sequences so that can also play a role in producing slower runs.
 
I was there. Surface the first day was dry and dusty. Second day, it was really tough on the light weight dogs. They over watered it, and then it packed down hard. The small light dogs were having trouble getting grip on it. It got better as the day went on. The early dogs in 12" were taking a lot of bars. It wasn't as extreme in either direction for the last two days.. however the footing was still better as the day progressed, so the later dogs had a better chance at keeping the bars up.
Kai took a bar on day 2 because of the footing, along with a number of others. Athena made it to cumulative 25th place... 5 out of finals. We had a really wide turn off the dw as our running dw sent Athena out too far, so lost several seconds. We were really close. Ran clean with pretty good times all 4 days. Shame T2B didn't count toward our cumulative score. We would've been in the finals then :P
 
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