So You Want to be on the Silver Team...

Great agility weekend. Something crazy over took me and I entered three dogs. Rival got to return to the fun and Tundra got four runs in veterans at 12 inches. Brink didn't have a great weekend. Last Sunday, we had some really tough weave pole entries that he never quite got even after multiple tries. I guess that carried over to this weekend, as he only did one set of weave poles successfully the whole weekend.

Rival was the superstar of the weekend. He managed his first ever Steeplechase Q, with a 2nd place in round 1 and 3rd in round 2. I was super happy that he had no issues with 2 sets of weave poles in round 2. He almost finished that coveted AAD title, with a mid-weave pop on day one and missed dog-walk contact on day 2. He got a Master Snooker's Q and 3rd place (one place away from a Super Q) and a Master's Jumpers Q. Master's Gamblers was weave poles and Rival actually went to them and did 4 or 5 before popping out.
Brink managed a Master's Pairs Q and had a perfect Standard run that was taken away by the mean judge who didn't like his teeter.
Tundra got herself a Veteran's Standard and Veteran's Jumpers Q. She did the gamble, but I didn't get enough opening points for the Q.
Rival and Brink have another trial this weekend and the training schedule has been set-weaves and contacts.
Today we started by running through the channel weaves for speed and accuracy. Surprisingly, it took Brink multiple tries to get into the channel weaves correctly and stay in to the end.
Second, dog walk repetitions, Rival running to a target approximately five feet away, Brink stopping in a 2 on 2 off with a target, but no verbal command, and staying in position until released.
Third, weave pole entrances. I don't have two by twos, but I do have a set that breaks up into 4 sections of three. So using one of those we worked on hard entrances-90 degrees from both sides without having to push out. I used clicker to reward the tight wrap around the pole. Brink caught on to this very quickly, Rival was more difficult as he always wanted to cut to the second pole as the entrance.

Stig got to do the second and third exercises. He is jumping from the dog-walk, so I think a hoop will be in order. I did bring out the target and that helped to get collection, but I want to make sure he builds speed appropriately. He loved the weave pole entrance exercise!