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.
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