I have to tell you guys about that guy, remember, who was making comments about our dogs and how we should keep them in novice. So, he ran his dog in JWW on Sunday. Honestly, she did awesome. She was very focused and controlled. So, when he checked the times, he said, first and twice as fast as the next dog. I told him Koji got his title and we are moving up to Open. He said, "you don't have to, y'know. it's more twisty and turny and stuff, and he may not be ready for that". I just said, "i know, but he's ready for it, jumpers is his thing".
Later that day, he said to me, "wow, koji is fast. he ran faster than my dog." and I said, "like I said, Jumpers is his thing, Open should be easy peasy". (maybe not really, but I wanted him to understand that Open isn't anything new to us, we see those things in NADAC (a bit more spread out), but still, it's just handling technique, Koji can do the rest. (it just means I need to work on my FC's, serpentines, etc).
Ah, it was great. Seriously, because he saw Koji actually run. We were only 2 seconds slower than his dog, however, he ran it perfectly whereas I had a major bobble. I'm sure in the long run, his dog may be faster or even better, but I just felt like saying, "in your face!" I know, not very sportsmanlike, huh? At least now he knows what Koji really runs like and he was impressed. He didn't think Koji was that far along. Hehehe. Is that mean? Oh well. It was nice to see him eat some of his words.
