I've made a little video of Eri doing agility: first part of the clip is made during agility camp with Nigel Staines - you can see Eri doing a short sequence of jumps and then dogwalk, that was new to her. Last part is weave poles - notice the entries :).
This weekend we were on the competition and I ran Eri as a white dog in jumping "zero" - the courses were pretty pleasant and fluent. Actually, I was really happy with her. On the first day and first jumping she was pretty slow, but still faster than some other dogs and had a clean run. Second run - she went off course into the tunnel and I was really happy for it, because she was faster and she showed some initiative, instead of being worried about going wrong :o). On the second day of competition with the first jumping she escaped from the start, because see saw me leaving the ball outside the ring - I called her back and ran without putting her in a formal sit - boy, she was pretty fast! She missed the last obstacle, but I didn't want to call her back and praised her anyway, as I was really satisfied with that run. I asked somebody to video it, so I hope I would be able to show it to you. Next run I put her in a formal sit-stay and she was not that fast - so I think we would start without putting her in a sit for some time, until I figure out some way of teaching her to explode from a sit - stay with all the speed she can master. But most of all, I'm really happy, cause she worked around all those distractions, didn't knock a single bar down and I'm sure she will be ready for real competition in October :D.
This weekend we were on the competition and I ran Eri as a white dog in jumping "zero" - the courses were pretty pleasant and fluent. Actually, I was really happy with her. On the first day and first jumping she was pretty slow, but still faster than some other dogs and had a clean run. Second run - she went off course into the tunnel and I was really happy for it, because she was faster and she showed some initiative, instead of being worried about going wrong :o). On the second day of competition with the first jumping she escaped from the start, because see saw me leaving the ball outside the ring - I called her back and ran without putting her in a formal sit - boy, she was pretty fast! She missed the last obstacle, but I didn't want to call her back and praised her anyway, as I was really satisfied with that run. I asked somebody to video it, so I hope I would be able to show it to you. Next run I put her in a formal sit-stay and she was not that fast - so I think we would start without putting her in a sit for some time, until I figure out some way of teaching her to explode from a sit - stay with all the speed she can master. But most of all, I'm really happy, cause she worked around all those distractions, didn't knock a single bar down and I'm sure she will be ready for real competition in October :D.
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