Friday: 7/5/13
Saturday: 7/6/13
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TVtsCTfrTk
100 – MXJ Leg #9 – 5 points
Really good speed off the start line.
Flying speed through most of course, especially second half after the
weaves.
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uVwMQGFKFI
NQ – Bizarre coming back out of tunnel late in
the course.
A little hesitant getting on the table but she
did. Really fast weaves. Was down to an easy tunnel-jump finish, went
into tunnel and for some reason came back out.
To lose a double Q. Frustrating.
Sunday: 7/7/13
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQZQkm9HuQ
100 - MXJ Title! – 6 points
She came flying out of weaves and we had an ugly
front cross and a tough push to a jump.
But it was a tough serpentine finish and we did that great.
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s7XOv0Qohk
NQ – Missed an easy weave entrance. Missed teeter.
Was able to get good lateral distance out of a
chute for a nice, early front cross. She
missed a very easy weave entrance off of the dogwalk. Not sure why although she did a mini-sniff
before them. Got a nice CO front cross
in before the tunnel. Strangely just
turned off teeter after tunnel. It might
have been “heading for home” behavior.
Friday: 6/28/13
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU5NBuO0qOM
100 – MXJ Leg #6 – 8 points
She focused on me nicely out of first tunnel, that was a part that caused
issues for others. Nice job coming back
into course for pinwheel after weaves.
Decent speed throughout.
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFkj7O1ooJU
100 - MX Leg #4 – Double Q #1! – 12 points
Course had a four jump serpentine at start that
had a lot of options for handling. I
chose to just keep her on my right which worked great. She paused a bit and got a little crooked at
top of the aframe. I was a little
concerned with the dogwalk “heading home” but she got well into the
contact. I went to wall side after
weaves to avoid accidentally pulling into the late wrong course tunnel which
worked nicely as well. First double Q!
Saturday: 6/29/13
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYC0fwK_wE
NQ – Missed weave entry, refusal at double
Great speed on this course. Early
dogwalk call-off that she handled nicely.
Had a turn-tunnel off of the dogwalk we she did perfectly. Missed weave entry after momentary “heading
for home” pace. Interesting finish,
since we had NQd I tried to front cross after the tunnel that did not work.
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsTuMjqA_A
100 – MXJ Leg #7 – 2 points
Straight forward course if you can keep up with
your dog, It was going well including a couple of rear crosses. Unfortunately after jump 8 she hoarked up her
treat again. Kept it in her mouth but
cost us about 4 seconds time.
Sunday: 6/30/13
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aya4iXWcg1k
NQ – Refused table
Nice lateral distance on obstacle 2 to set up CO
front cross for tunnel. Good response on
180 with wrong course dogwalk option.
Just wandered by table. It was
next to crowd that might have contributed to it. Good job finding weaves out of chute, weaved
with good speed. Almost fell off dogwalk
on incline but saved it. Scary. Finished
nice.
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAZ1Nzmto8
100 – MXJ Leg #8 – 9 points
Ran hard until weaves. Slow weaves.
Picked up speed again after them.
Tough call-off of orange jump on finishing stretch but she handled it
great.
Saturday: 6/15/13
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eYQR35RSJI
NQ – Entered second weave pole.
This was an extremely tough course by S. Kaufman (only one dog 8-16 inch
passed, only two 20 inch dogs passed!) but Shasta handled it pretty well. She had very good speed off the start line
but then paused at the top of the aframe.
Did a nice wrap in a box of wrong courses. It was a 180 out of the chute to weaves and
she entered second pole. I should have
tried the front cross before the weaves.
I made my own course off of the table to avoid what I thought was a
horrible dogwalk entry. All-in-all, not
bad for an incredibly difficult course.
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ERvwkjunY
NQ – Wrong course tunnel at last obstacle.
Had a tough sequence needing to get to the back
side of the jump out of an early tunnel, something we never see but Shasta
handled it well with decent motivation/speed.
Nice blind cross off of the double.
Last obstacle was a u-shaped tunnel and we got the wrong side of the
tunnel. I could have turned harder with
my shoulders but she also should have responded to verbal and lateral distance.
Sunday: 6/16/13
Excellent Standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYmqa0zOGw
NQ – Called for missed aframe contact, refused the table, ran past weaves
Speed was ok, considering sun and temps. She had a big pause at the top of the aframe
then leaped a bit into the contact zone.
Not sure why it was called, she was clearly in the contact, speculation
was that the judge may have called it “accidental” hitting of the contact. I didn’t know that was a potential judgment
call but apparently it is. We then
missed the table shortly after, not sure if it was her refusal or her reaction
to my annoyed reaction to having the call on the aframe. She refused it more than once. Then on chute to weaves sequence she ran by
the weaves as I think she had a bit of “heading for home” attitude. She also had a distracted detour on the
finish stretch. First half was pretty
good, second half was a distracted mess, not sure how much was due to my reaction
to aframe call.
Excellent Jww: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOFzr9_6GpM
NQ – Missed weave entry
Very slow start to the course. Entered wrong side of first weave pole. Weaved second try but very slow. Course had very dangerous finish that the
judge wouldn’t fix so since we had NQd and she wasn’t into the game, we did an abbreviated
course and left.
