First, I have entered our second agility trial with Trophy thanks to a sponsorship from a good agility friend. New D-Day is set for Sunday, October 13. One month from tomorrow. I just sent off my registration so I haven't gotten any confirmation yet. Wish I could do two days of the trial and try to move out of novice, but alas.
ETA: Got confirmation on 9/15/13 that I am IN for both runs on Sunday 10/13/13!
Tonight's agility class was built around a grid of jumps. All contact equipment and a tunnel were around the edges of the building, and we worked on technical handling skills - reverse jumps, threadles, tricky jump sequences. Stuff we haven't really worked on in a while, at least not this amount of technical stuff in one class. It was a lot of fun. Trophy (for the most part) remembered the command for taking the backside of a jump which was cool to use in class for the first time. The hardest part of the whole course was the ending sequence of a stretched out serpentine. Trophy and I ran that sequence 6 times before we finally managed to put all three jumps in the serpentine together.
Unfortunately, we were back to having some startline issues with Trophy not paying attention to me for his start cue again for his last run though, and he popped out of the weaves when I tried to front cross when he was weaving.
Demo's weaves are getting better. He's going to be so damn fast when he finally understands that he can't skip a pole just because he's flying through them. I love watching him fly over the 24" jumps. He makes it look so effortless. Need to work with him on understanding taking the reverse of a jump. He had never done that before. Surprisingly the best part of his performance was the serpentine. I'm really, really really happy with his a-frame contact. He is exceptionally solid in it. Because of where the dog walk is situated currently near the seating for the other dogs in class he is extremely worried about coming off the dogwalk straight into his 2o2o and I have to babysit him. I'm hoping that won't be an issue when the dogwalk is moved.
Overall totally pleased with their performances tonight. It was a fun course.
