Silvia Trkman courses

Here are some of the courses that Silvia set up for us on the advance group. I hope she doesn't mind me posting these. I'm not sure the distance is exactly right so if you set them up you may have to adjust it. Also she only used half the field so I figure that was about right.

1. In the first course I couldn't figure out how to manage 6,7,8,9. But after Silvia said it was a straight line ( its suppose to be a straight line), it made more sense. So as long as you were to the right of your dog coming out of the tunnel you just did a slight push and pull and the dog ran fine. Guiness got it with no problem ( after everyone had left I ran him 3 times) Many teams had problems with 3,4,5 to the tunnel. Most tried to call there dogs to them after jump 4. And they went off course to the first tunnel entrance. What worked best was a front cross after 4.

2. The only real problem with the second course was the weave entry and coming off the dog walk to jump8. You needed to be on the left side for your dog to make the weave entry. Surprisingly dogs that had a running contact were able to get to jump 8 without difficulty. The dogs that had a 20/20 had to have there handler in just the right spot to front cross and get them over the jump. That held true for course 3 also.

3. The third course I thought that the blind tunnel entrance would be a problem but it wasn't. Most dogs, including Guiness, got it without having to go all the way to the tunnel and then you ran behind the tunnel and the dog knew where you were and took jump 4 without a problem.