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| I'm ready to play! |
This past week has been wonderful – one full week off school
for Thanksgiving break. Gotta love it!! It was especially nice to have the extra days
to recover from the last cold and rainy agility trial. But, all good things must come to an end, so
I went back to school on Monday and am counting down the days (17….) until
Christmas break.
So, with time to devote to training being of short supply, I
have focused on a few training goals before this weekend’s trial. Since Jefferson did not have a “down” during
our beautiful Standard run two weeks ago, I wanted to troubleshoot the
table. I have proofed the table –
practicing Saturday, Monday and this evening.
Jefferson is going to an immediate and quick “down” on the table, so I
am confident that he understands the criteria.
But, with all the excitement of a trial, it is difficult for him to
exhibit impulse control especially if he is running "full steam ahead" from the
prior obstacle. I am not expecting
miracles and we need to put in more work on reinforcing the immediate “down”
for his table performance.
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| Yep! I can go to a fast down! |
Another training goal I have from the last trial is to work
on front crosses and gaining more lateral distance from Jefferson when he
commits to a jump. This way, I am better
able to get ahead of him on the course to give him more information about where
he is going. I set up a few three and
four jump drills to work on my getting lateral motion while he makes his
commitment to the jumps. We also
continued to practice the very basic front cross moves with one and two
jumps. These types of training drills
may not be very “sexy,” but this has helped me to better communicate with
Jefferson when we are running a course. Additionally, I still work to maintain his weave
poles and running dogwalk and A-frame, but my main focus has been on better
communicating to Jefferson.
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| I wish she'd give me the cheese already.... |
This week’s blog is fairly short – as I have been busy with
school, decorating for Christmas and goofing around with my new Samsung Galaxy
SIII phone (my first droid after giving up a four- year-old, outdated Blackberry). I can truly say that this phone is da’ bomb
and now I feel like one of the cool kids!
Looking forward to taking pictures and video-taping my
agility runs during this weekend’s trial.
My goals for this trial: start
together, finish together and have fun (all being documented on my new phone!)
Did I say how much I love this phone!??!!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clark
Good luck and have fun!
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