My USDAA Team/Tournament weekend

ortegah

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Well as I said in the previous thread the whole weekend was a dud. I've been very sick and only found out Sunday evening that I have pneumonia, so I guess I have an excuse :biggrin2:

Anyhow, here's the course diagrams if you'd like to see them: http://home.comcast.net/~ortegah/usdaa12-30-1-1-2012.pdf

I'm sure there will be lots of questions and head scratching so feel free to ask based on each individual course. The gamblers and snooker courses proved to be the most confusing courses I've ever seen in. The judge actually apologized after the snooker class because the course was so difficult to finish. I believe a couple of people finished in time but they didn't have a whole lot of points if they wanted to make time.

So lets see. The first run was Friday, steeplechase(performance speed jumping for me). Here's that run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRG9Z_sWOdw
He dropped a bar(my fault for not cueing better) and he missed his weave entry so it put him 2 points out of range for qualifying.

I haven't uploaded the rest of the runs and some of them weren't recorded anyhow. For Gamblers he got 26 points and our partner got 37 points which put us in 7th place at that time. But the rest of the weekend was a bust. Standard I had points but my partner had a wrong course and therefore an elimination. Jumpers, we were both off course and had eliminations.

Then Sunday came and Snooker kicked everyone's butts, BIGTIME! Just not enough time to do what we wanted to do and Trax took number 3 after number 6 so got whistled off in the opening. We had 8 points LOL! Our partner had double that, 16 points, so you can see where this was all going...down the flusher and fast.

Then for Relay I misjudged my shoulder placement and pushed him right into the wrong end of the tunnel for a elimination and my partner also went off course. So that was the end of that team :lol:

As for Grand Prix, I messed him up at the tire and got a refusal and then he flew off the a frame and never even saw that contact so I downed him and carried him off.

We had a super fun(though tiring) weekend though! I'll try to get the other runs up tonight maybe.
 
Sorry you are so sick--that's terrible! I've had a terrible cold (sinus infection?) for over a week now, but you are worse off than me. Hope you're feeling somewhat better today and are able to get some rest.

Despite the NQs, I think you guys are looking good. That was a pretty tough weave entry for Steeplechase--especially with a fast dog who is going to be way ahead of you when they get there.

I'm off to go check out your Snooker course map!
 
Sorry you are so sick--that's terrible! I've had a terrible cold (sinus infection?) for over a week now, but you are worse off than me. Hope you're feeling somewhat better today and are able to get some rest.

Despite the NQs, I think you guys are looking good. That was a pretty tough weave entry for Steeplechase--especially with a fast dog who is going to be way ahead of you when they get there.

I'm off to go check out your Snooker course map!

Thanks! Overall we ran well I think. It just was hard to think clearly when I couldn't really yell or run or breathe for that matter. Nonetheless, we had a great time and I can't wait to get to my next show!
 
Holy moly those are some crazy courses!! And to be that sick and running? I give you credit. Bummer that it's pneumonia though. I can see why you felt there was a lot of handling errors, I'm sure if you felt even 10x better, it would have gone a lot smoother.

Hugs to you for your "bad" weekend. I still think Trax looks awesome! I can only hope one day Koji would look so nice. ;)

Get well soon. Trax says he wants to redeem himself.
 
Holy moly those are some crazy courses!! And to be that sick and running? I give you credit. Bummer that it's pneumonia though. I can see why you felt there was a lot of handling errors, I'm sure if you felt even 10x better, it would have gone a lot smoother.

Hugs to you for your "bad" weekend. I still think Trax looks awesome! I can only hope one day Koji would look so nice. ;)

Get well soon. Trax says he wants to redeem himself.

Well we had a team and I didn't want to let my team down by not showing up. And anyhow, once I've paid money for a show it's real hard to just not show up. Either way, I'm happy I went, sickness or no sickness. This judge was super nice but his courses were this close >< to absolute craziness! Even the ones that looked nice and walked nice were atrocious when you got out there and actually ran it. I was blown away at how few people actually had clean runs or even Q'd.
 
Well we had a team and I didn't want to let my team down by not showing up. And anyhow, once I've paid money for a show it's real hard to just not show up. Either way, I'm happy I went, sickness or no sickness. This judge was super nice but his courses were this close >< to absolute craziness! Even the ones that looked nice and walked nice were atrocious when you got out there and actually ran it. I was blown away at how few people actually had clean runs or even Q'd.

I really like that judge--he is a nice guy.

But it seems like these days judges use DAM to make things really tricky. Not a complaint--just an observation. It definitely mixes things up a bit!
 
I really like that judge--he is a nice guy.

But it seems like these days judges use DAM to make things really tricky. Not a complaint--just an observation. It definitely mixes things up a bit!

Oh yeah he was super nice! Yeah I was told that the team tournaments are normally harder, but this was insane. I've never done a snooker course before this, so to see a 2-0-1-2 as the 7 pt obstacle was just so confusing. Cute but confusing and terribly time consuming. And then to have a gambler course with no opening period and 2 multi-level jokers, now that was mind boggling too! Thank God my instructor was there competing too, because I wouldn't have had a clue at all.
 
Well we had a team and I didn't want to let my team down by not showing up. And anyhow, once I've paid money for a show it's real hard to just not show up. Either way, I'm happy I went, sickness or no sickness. This judge was super nice but his courses were this close >< to absolute craziness! Even the ones that looked nice and walked nice were atrocious when you got out there and actually ran it. I was blown away at how few people actually had clean runs or even Q'd.

I totally understand. I love that the judge was sorry about the crazy courses, lol. I have to admit, this past week's trial had some awesome courses (back side jumping, nice serps, harder weave entries, etc) and I loved it. Granted, the most fun one I wanted to run, was the one Koji broke his start line stay on so I didn't get to run it. I was happy to see more challenging courses though. Granted, nothing like what your's looked like and obviously, I don't have a super fast dog that runs far out ahead of me to worry about. ;)
 
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