More about the trial

Now to continue the trial stuff.  Next up was pairs.  I have to tell you, which you probably all already know, the difference between starters and advance is huge.  So here is starters pairs.  Even Miley and I didnt mess this one up.  ( no video)

The person I was paired with didnt want to do the a-frame.  I didnt want to do it either but  what the heck.  I just didnt want Miley doing to many a-frames this weekend.  We ran our side without a problem.  I think their side dropped a bar but that just added time, so we "Q"ed.  There were 3 people in starters pairs so the other person needed a partner.  They asked if I would do it, so I said ok.  So I now had to run the other side.  But because his dog was 22 inches we had less course time.  I told them I didnt think course time would be a problem.  (Now staying on course, thats another story).   So I dont know if you can see my line but I wanted to practice the not obvious tunnel entrance and she got it. But I took for granted that she would take that jump going back to the next tunnel and she missed it.  Lucky for him my side didnt count agaisnt him and he "Q"d even with his dog lying down and doing a military  crawl on the ground after the chute.  Dogs are so funny.

Next up advance jumpers.

I had a bad plan for this one.  I dont know what I was thinking.  I lead out to the left of the dog and planned to pull to the left to get her to take jump #5 and then RC her. What the heck was I thinking??  I should have front crossed after #4  or I could have done a RC on the flat after #5.  So what happend when I had her going to jump #5, as soon as I stepped toward her to RC, pushed her off the jump and over the wrong side of #6.  Ugh.  Then I got her back on course.  Coming out of the  tunnel of #12, I made sure I had her head and did a moving FC #13. The serpentine was going great until I didnt call her over jump #15, so she didnt take it and we drove on to #16.  Even though we missed #15, it looked pretty cool.  I do have video but the person was walking when videoing (is that a word?), so its really shaky and hard to watch.
I went home that night and just beat myself up over that jumpers run. I fell asleep thinking about it and woke up thinking about it.  I was hell bent on doing better on the next jumpers course.

So here was the course.  I really felt like I had a handle on this.  When I first walked it  I FC after #12 but that just didnt feel right.  I really felt like she was going to be coming down the line from #8 on and she would be flying! It never crossed my mind that I would pull her off the tire.  Ugh!  Just looking at my now pen marks shows you have far I would be pulling, how wouldnt I pull her off her line? I think from now on Im going  to mark my dogs line and mine on the course map to make sure I dont do this.  Do you think I will ever get this right?


So you can see I screwed it up again.  My poor dog.  At least she didnt stress circling with all my screw ups.  How long do you think it takes to learn to do this right?
Next up was snooker.  I started getting a headache and the beach and the dolphins were calling me. So we left. 

Trial update

We went to a USDAA trial at the beach.  Drum roll please......... Miley got on the table!!!!  WhooHoo!! 


Sunrise

First up was gamblers

I had timed it and figured I be right at the tunnel to start the gamble but we had time left before the buzzer so I had to add a few obstacles.  On this run I wanted to try a few things to see where we were.  I tried to threadle #2 to#3 ( my numbers) but she back jumped it . So something that still needs work. I also tried to wrap my #7 because I keep making her drop the bar at home.  Well we dropped it here too. So another thing to still work on.  But she held her start line, did all her contacts correctly and weaved too.  Watch her jump in the air at the end of the video.



Next up was standard.

 I really didnt think she would get on the table.  But she got right on.  I didnt know what to do.  Should I run out of the ring and celebrate or keep going.  Ugh!  I really just couldnt decided so I chose to stay.  I hope it wasnt the wrong decision.  There were two jumps after the table and then turn into the weaves.  I decided to RC #9  because so many dogs just didnt seem to know they were going to the weaves when the handler post turned.  But Miley missed the weaves and then stressed. Ugh!!!!!  I couldnt get her back.  I hope I didnt transfer the table stress to the weaves.  She has missed the weaves at other trials and I just bring her around and she does them.  Maybe she just needed to blow off steam after getting on the table.  I hope thats all it was. I know the end of the video isnt good but  you have to take the good with bad.

Wordless Wednesday

Well, this was depressing.

I decided to go through my trial journal to see when exactly  my table issue started.  It was really depressing seeing what went on.  Why didnt I do this sooner?  Why was I writing all this down if I wasnt going to read it? ( dont feel like you need to read this or comment. I really just did it for my own benefit)


09/27/08   1st trail(akc) ,   jumped on and off the table several times.
09/28/08   got on table
12/20/09   2nd trial(usdaa),  got on table
01/2409    3rd trail (akc)   didnt get on table.
01/25/09   got on table, took a long time to go into a down.
04/04/09  4th trial (akc)   got on table.  It was the only day I wrote stuff about the trial.
04/19/09   5th trial ( akc)  got on table.
05/30/09  6th trial (akc)   ran by table.
05/31/09   ran around table 4 times.
This next trial is when I realized I really had a problem.  wonder why I didnt notice it sooner?  It was already a problem. A big problem. Ugh!
07/02/09  7th trail (akc)  got on table without any problems.
07/03/09  I didnt write anything about the table being a problem. but got whistled off the course for training in ring.
09/19/09 8th trail. (akc)  jumped on and off the table, then circled me a lot.
09/20/09  wouldnt get on table.
09/25/09  GCOC trial,  This was our trial.I didnt write anything for the 3 days.
10/10/09  10th trial (akc).   did a great table.
10/11/09  No sure about the table on this run.
10/17/10 11th trial (akc)  I didnt write anything about the table
10/18/10  again didnt write anything about table
11/7/09 12th trial (akc)  jumped on and off table and circled me 3 time times
11/08/09  jumped on and off table I moved on .
12/30/09 13th trial,  I didnt put her on the table on this run
12/31/09 didnt put her on table
01/1/10  got on table on 2nd try.
01/22/10 14th trial.  (akc), wouldnt get on table, stress circling
01/23/10  didnt have her do the table
02/20/10 15th trial,  (akc)  didnt have her do the table
02/21/10  didnt have her do the table
02/27/10 16th trail (usdaa)  didnt do any runs with table
03/13/10  17th trail (akc)  Looks like I couldnt avoid. the table so she jumped on and off and we kept going
03/14/10  didnt have her do the table.
04/03/10 18th trial, Looks like I didnt enter standard
04/09/10 19th trial. didnt get on table.
04/11/10  didnt have her do the table.
04/24/10 20th trial ( usdaa) didnt do any runs with tables
05/01/10 21st trail. (akc)  didnt have her do the table
5/29/10  22dn trail (usdaa) didnt do any runs with tables
7/3/10 23rd trail. (akc) didnt get on table started circling.
7/16/10 24th trail (usdaa) ran standard.  Didnt try to get her on the table. Just had her come next to me, and sit right next to the table. That was no problem.

So out of all the runs that I have table information on, and ones that I attempted to get her on the table, 6 times she got on without any problems,  14 times showed some type of problem.  I went through my course maps to see if I wrote anything else down, when I didnt write it in the trial journal.  I just cant go through the video right now. Its to depressing.  When I start feeling more positive and feeling  like I cant tackle this problem again, Ill go through the video.

So lets see something happy and beautiful!

Hey Look!

I went to one of Meagan's classes for the first time in 5 months.  After class I thought I would see if Miley would get on the table.  Last time I was at a class there , she would not.  But look, no problem.   Its not the best photo, it was taken with my phone.  I tried to watch all her body movements to make sure she wasnt showing any signs of stress.  I didnt see anything.  One thing I know I do a lot, is make the table last in a sequence. I was thinking maybe thats why its such a negative.  Its the end of the fun.  So Im trying to make sure I never finish with the table.   Will see what happens this weekend.

Here are a couple of the courses we ran.  I had the most trouble with the first one.  Im not sure the distances are correct.  I know the jumps were tight and the tunnels were close to the jumps.  If you care about what I had trouble with you can read the stuff I wrote on the course map.

Fun class, Im glad  I went.  Thanksgiving was fun.  My husband got up early Thursday, helped my mom put the turkey in and then went to run a 5K race. He ran in the Turkey Trot they had in Savannah.  He think he did all that before I got  up.  LOL .  My son didnt come to Thanksgiving. He had to work Thursday.  Then Friday morning he called me and he was feeling terrible.  It was a really bad cold but seemed worse than a cold.  I thought maybe he was getting the flu but he never go a fever. (he had his flu shot too).  He was miserable Friday and Saturday.  Today he seemed much better.  Still had all the cold symptoms just didnt feel that miserable feeling all over.  Good thing too,because he had to go back to school today.
Here is the bunny squirrel that is at my moms house.

Lake Murray

Happy Thanksgiving!