Georgie almost Qd JWW, but only did 11 weaves the first time through. She took a nice RC from me which I wasn't sure if she would take, then since she missed the Q I also asked her to run a line that wasn't really straight, and she nailed it (although I handled it properly instead of botching the handling like I did the last time I asked her to run a not-so-straight line.)
Payton's JWW run was uhhhh. He blew his stay which I thought we'd fixed that, so that didn't bode well. He got into his weaves but didn't finish them. Tried again, no go. Tried the third time and he got about 8 of them. So then I took off on him, had to send him out around a big post and he dropped the bar of the next jump because I was like twenty feet ahead and he tried to rush to catch up to me after losing sight due to the post. He didn't get the triple because the angle was wrong and I didn't really work it that hard (again I was 20 feet ahead of him), but he did get the ending line which was the same as Georgie's course. Got another compliment on speed, his and mine.
Payton went first in STD and wow. Blew his stay again. He did a VERY nice teeter, then he came off the table. Got back on it and did a much better stay, I even got away from him before releasing. The course was teeter (nice) table (not so nice) jump (fine) a-frame. He got in the yellow on the a-frame but didn't do a 2o2o, but at least he tried. The weaves were in the exact same place as they were in JWW so I thought he might actually get them, but he was worse on the weaves this time around, which is a bummer. The dog-walk was second to last and he wasn't even close to his contact there. I at least remembered MY criteria for the most part and did what Stuart told me to do, so I feel kind of good about that. I always feel worse when not only does Payton have a crappy run but I don't behave the way I've been told to either, because that's not helping. He did get a couple pieces of steak for getting his a-frame, but overall not super-de-duper.
Georgie's STD run was kind of a mess. She came off the table which I don't think she has done before. We know the judge and she knows the judge thinks she's adorable so she got on the table, then jumped off and ran over to the judge like HI HI HI I LOVE YOU HI HI! OMG. She did come back though. She wasn't even close on her a-frame, I think she finally got the weaves on her third attempt but I can't remember if she actually did or not, and she didn't get the dog walk contact either. Overall though it's not her fault; my mom hasn't been working with her either and although I took Payton out after finding out we got into the trial to work him, she didn't. So Georgie really hasn't seen contact equipment at all since our last trial, nor had any kind of work done on her contact behavior. It was disappointing because she's one Q away from her title and moving up into excellent, but again, really not her fault.
All in all it wasn't a very good weekend. We didn't get to run until SUPER late, which I had wanted to skip the hotel and just drive over but my mom wanted a hotel room so we did that... spent extra money on the hotel room which we didn't need, and of course I didn't sleep very well in the hotel room either, so I was tired. Came home after wasting a bunch of money and a good portion of my weekend and started drinking.
I did see that Agility University opened a contacts 101 course which covers all kinds of things, and the price was good for six months of access, so I signed up and started trying to read through it last night. My brain wasn't fully functioning (alcohol) but it seems like there's a lot of stuff in the course that I've already done/am doing with Payton, but I don't think my mom has done with Georgie, so hopefully I will be able to get some good stuff done with Georgie. Also it covers running a-frames which I have wanted to switch to training a running a-frame for P. So... yeah... that's what I did under the influence of alcohol. Whoops!
Meanwhile the whole drive home I was hoping BB had much better success with Gusto this weekend so WAITING FOR BB TO CHECK IN AND TELL US GUSTO WAS AWESOME.
Payton's JWW run was uhhhh. He blew his stay which I thought we'd fixed that, so that didn't bode well. He got into his weaves but didn't finish them. Tried again, no go. Tried the third time and he got about 8 of them. So then I took off on him, had to send him out around a big post and he dropped the bar of the next jump because I was like twenty feet ahead and he tried to rush to catch up to me after losing sight due to the post. He didn't get the triple because the angle was wrong and I didn't really work it that hard (again I was 20 feet ahead of him), but he did get the ending line which was the same as Georgie's course. Got another compliment on speed, his and mine.
Payton went first in STD and wow. Blew his stay again. He did a VERY nice teeter, then he came off the table. Got back on it and did a much better stay, I even got away from him before releasing. The course was teeter (nice) table (not so nice) jump (fine) a-frame. He got in the yellow on the a-frame but didn't do a 2o2o, but at least he tried. The weaves were in the exact same place as they were in JWW so I thought he might actually get them, but he was worse on the weaves this time around, which is a bummer. The dog-walk was second to last and he wasn't even close to his contact there. I at least remembered MY criteria for the most part and did what Stuart told me to do, so I feel kind of good about that. I always feel worse when not only does Payton have a crappy run but I don't behave the way I've been told to either, because that's not helping. He did get a couple pieces of steak for getting his a-frame, but overall not super-de-duper.
Georgie's STD run was kind of a mess. She came off the table which I don't think she has done before. We know the judge and she knows the judge thinks she's adorable so she got on the table, then jumped off and ran over to the judge like HI HI HI I LOVE YOU HI HI! OMG. She did come back though. She wasn't even close on her a-frame, I think she finally got the weaves on her third attempt but I can't remember if she actually did or not, and she didn't get the dog walk contact either. Overall though it's not her fault; my mom hasn't been working with her either and although I took Payton out after finding out we got into the trial to work him, she didn't. So Georgie really hasn't seen contact equipment at all since our last trial, nor had any kind of work done on her contact behavior. It was disappointing because she's one Q away from her title and moving up into excellent, but again, really not her fault.
All in all it wasn't a very good weekend. We didn't get to run until SUPER late, which I had wanted to skip the hotel and just drive over but my mom wanted a hotel room so we did that... spent extra money on the hotel room which we didn't need, and of course I didn't sleep very well in the hotel room either, so I was tired. Came home after wasting a bunch of money and a good portion of my weekend and started drinking.
I did see that Agility University opened a contacts 101 course which covers all kinds of things, and the price was good for six months of access, so I signed up and started trying to read through it last night. My brain wasn't fully functioning (alcohol) but it seems like there's a lot of stuff in the course that I've already done/am doing with Payton, but I don't think my mom has done with Georgie, so hopefully I will be able to get some good stuff done with Georgie. Also it covers running a-frames which I have wanted to switch to training a running a-frame for P. So... yeah... that's what I did under the influence of alcohol. Whoops!
Meanwhile the whole drive home I was hoping BB had much better success with Gusto this weekend so WAITING FOR BB TO CHECK IN AND TELL US GUSTO WAS AWESOME.