Saturday December 30th 2006 - practice at Red Gate

(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)

Oh well, so much for the winter-long agility break! Went for a spur-of-the-moment agility practice with some friends today. All jumps were kept at 16". The people who used the facility before us had been running a jumper's course from a major event (can't remember which one) and took a few minutes to walk us through it before we left, so that's what we started the day with. An approximate diagram is below but I'm pretty sure I didn't get it quite right. Walter and I squeaked our way through it cleanly and it was fun though neither pretty nor fast! Then we brought in the contact obstacles and just played around. The highlights of Walter's day were that he had no dogwalk issues and no problems with rear crosses with jumps (no spinning - guess the flatwork is paying off).

Wednesday December 24th 2006 - practice on the flat

(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)

Have been practicing some circle work and cross work on the flat at a local field. We can now do rear cross exercises like the "zig zag" one described at Agility Nerd.

Wednesday December 13th 2006 - Novice 3, class #7

(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)

Today was our last class of the session and year. We worked on using the flip to do a rear cross between jumps at 90d. Then we did 6-pole weaves as part of a sequence with jumps, tire, and tunnel, including a challenging off-side entry coming out of the tunnel, and Walter ended the session on a great note with the weaves, being 100% tonight. Also on one pass I ran laterally away from the weaves while he weaved and he stayed in them. Then we did a sequence with the teeter and he did a great job of sticking the 2o2o when I ran a metre or two ahead of him as he did the teeter. Finally we did a sequence with frame, flip into tunnel and some jumps, and I think the tunnel and frame are the obstacles that have suffered the most from our lack of practice in the last few months. We'll take a nice break from agility until the spring and come back fully recharged!

Wednesday December 6th 2006 - Novice 3, class #6

(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)

Not really anything to report other than Walter's confidence on the dogwalk seems to be coming back.