Kohl has officially retired from agility ...

Mr Kohl got his final ExclA Jumpers leg on his first run (Fri 4/27/2012) - he came third too!  His agility days are now over, Stephen moved him up to ExclB for the last two days and it was pretty clear he wasn't enjoying it.
 
Five out of six of Skyboy's runs were very good.  They had a bar down in two of the JWW runs and he missed the dog walk contact on all three STD runs - Stephen's just signed up for Daisy Peel's running contacts class so he's hoping Sky will soon figure the dog walk out.  Here's a video of Sky's best JWW run, he came second and was beaten by a Border Collie.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgb6VKLZRs
 
We are off the SnoKing this weekend and then Spokane the following weekend.

First Agility Trial of 2012

Saturday, February 14th
Had a nice JWW run today at the Afghan Hound Trial at Argus Ranch. Sky Q'ed and came first with a time of 28.82s beating the next dog by 1.25s, Sky ran at 5.85 yards per second and got 19 MACH points. After the trial we ran an AKC "B" match on the same JWW course. This time I handled Sky the same way that Daisy Peel handled her dog and Sky did the course in 26.96s nearly 2 seconds quicker! Here a link to the run http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOJ1prLEIQ

Sunday, February 15th
Ran again today at the Afghan Hound Trial. Q'ed in STD with a time 42.15s, Sky came 2nd and got 26 MACH points. Unfortunately we had a single off course jump in JWW so no DQ. Finally, we ran T2B and came 1st with a time of 28.75s, Sky now has 6 legs in T2B and 57 points out a maximum of 60. Sorry no video today. Running 4 days at the Portland trial next week - can't wait.

Weanchee Trial Report

6 runs but only 1 Q :-(
 
Sky came very close to Q'ing in 4 of the others runs - today's FAST course was very hard and only a handful of dog's Q'ed.
 
Sat
FAST - Sky did the send nicely and then I lost track of the course I wanted to run and we ended up 9 seconds over time and no Q.  I was very annoyed with myself over this run - the Q was there for the taking and I screwed up.   Video is here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CGA6M5NGd0
JWW - Clean up to 3 jumps from the end.  If you watch closely you can see I cued the rear cross too soon.  Again another basic handler error cost Sky a Q and first place (he was still the quickest dog even after the refusal).  Video is here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KFIgnlmV9w
STD - only Q of the weekend and on the hardest course too.  Sky also won the class.  Video is here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-winPyob_to
 
Sun
JWW - Another handler error and this time Sky did an off course jump.  Not  exactly sure what went wrong.  Again this cost Sky 1st place, he was 2.5 seconds quicker than the next 24" dog.  Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3lXBbUQhc
STD - I'm really annoyed with myself for not supporting the weaves more, I moved away laterally to setup the next jump and Sky followed me and popped out on pole 10.  Otherwise another good and quick run, video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-winPyob_to 
FAST - very hard send that Sky couldn't quite do.  He blew the contact on the teeter too.  Video is here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eour2BP77k
 
Sky had lots of admirers in Wenachee - I lost count of the number of people who wanted to know where I got him from.

Cascade Dachshund Club - Monroe

Sunday
STD:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO6M_bPfTD0 - 42 seconds, third place and 28 MACH pts.  I still think we running a little slow this weekend.

JWW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpA77qk72P4 - A disaster and no Q :-(


Saturday
3 runs today and 2 Q's.  We came very close to qualifying in STD too - but had a single bar down.  Sky got his FAST Excl A title today, we are now at Exc B in everything.

Thanks to Pat and Neil for recording the videos:

FAST: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVwho3CGug - 68 pts, first place, new title

STD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwEehEL9pY - 44 seconds - we were slow - bar down no Q

JWW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKkMxQ6Fxp4 - 25.95 seconds - we were slow - 15 MACH pts, second place, lost by .4 seconds.

Bell Vernon Kennel Assn. - Oak Harbor

Here are videos from Sky's runs this weekend.

Fri JWW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCZAmRa_rY - NQ, bar down, my fault 6.1yps
Fri STD  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWoh-D7wZc - 1st place and new title >4.5 yps
Fri T2B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoeeiOqdepA - 2nd quickest dog, 9 points.

Sat STD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9CTZpMUrlE  - too many errors to mention!
Sat JWW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-jQNPAv38 - off course, my fault 5.5 yps

Sun STD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZZG49KdGg - I wanted to run slowly, Sky didn't - no Q, Sky's fault.
Sun JWW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3V2wcHTgc - 1st place and 17 MACH points.  8 seconds quicker than the next dog! 5.9 yps.

Saturday's STD run looked easy when I walked it, but was actually really hard - lots of handlers struggled with off course errors including me!

Western Washington Hound Assn. - Marymoor

Good job you did not wait around to watch my JWW run it was a major disaster!  We did not get to run until 5:30pm - by this time Sky had been hanging around for 6 hours and he really was not focused on me at all.  That many things went wrong I can't even remember all of them.

Anyway on to FAST.  I did not attempt the Send, instead I just used this run to train the A-frame, which we have to run twice in Time 2 Beat, and getting Sky back to focusing on me an my instructions.  He actually moved pretty nicely on this run and did what I asked of him.

Finally, at 7:30pm we lined up to run Time 2 Beat.  The sun was really low in the sky and when Sky completed the A-Frame (with nice contacts) I looked up to direct him to the next jump and got completely dazzled by the sun, I could not see where I was supposed to go and ended up sending Sky to the wrong jump.  This was a shame because he ran the rest of the course pretty well with another good contact on the A-Frame.

Oh well at least I get to run a regular trial tomorrow - I should not be hanging around for ages in the heat which does not suite either of us.


See https://sites.google.com/site/livingwithpoodles/sky/agility-results-sky for Sat & Sun results.
 

Hurricane Ridge Kennel Club - Sequim

Fri 8/12
Sky ran very well - 3 runs and 3 first places!  He even beat all the Excl. B dogs.

Fri:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxK0uHkOMQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICyLjq53ajY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1amMPBqW9bk

Sat 8/13
Three runs today and two Q's. Sky missed his contacts on the dog walk so that was the end of the run for Sky. He got first place in Time To Beat and second place in Jumpers.

Sat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwNJ8YLQOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_U3X0HOj8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4o2fbWAiSQ

Sunday 8/14
No Q's today :-(
Sky missed the A-frame contact and I missed a jump in JWW.

Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0aC3airEPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9LJxqEv38c