Back to agility competition this weekend. Still in grade 2. Place was Vastse-Kuuste and judge was Laura Grosser (GER).
1st agility course. When course walking it seemed pretty good and simple. When running, it felt the same. maybe in couple of places I could have been faster with the commands - she had time to slightly look at me :) But anyway everything went smoothly and clean run with 1st place. Speed 5.63 m/s.
2nd agility course. Much more challenging. There were 3 moments on the course that I found challenging while course walking. First moment was after slalom and it went well for us. Only the joy of success caused me to miss the plan after that. And we got a DSQ from a jump before see-saw. She went to the back side...Then after tunnel I was miserably late by watching her so she went out from the line. The second challenging moment was after dog-walk and tunnel, where the dog had to come to the inside of the jump. My plan was to stop but in reality I did not stop not I turned my shoulders correctly. So she was of course going to jump from the backside. I think my shoulders were not correct because to the direction that the course went (back to the tunnel). Third challenging moment was okay for us. in the end i was turning away early and made Minnie skipped the jump. But I was already not taking the handling seriously :)
1st jumping course. This course worked well for us. Nice and clean and 1st place. Speed 5.58 m/s.
2nd jumping course. Actually nothing very difficult. But I did not turn her enough after 2nd jump and was very late to change then she missed the wall (refusal), I sent her back. Then i could calmly try to leave her in slalom - worked very well! On the 13th obstacle, i pulled her to the right line (a bit too much) and then forgot to send to the jump :) (another refusal). In my mind this course was already such a failure so I went ahead an tied unsuccessfully a back sending (laterally while moving). So DSQ. It was quite lazy of me not to try to the end.
Anyway my little Minnie got a lot of prices this weekend:
And video of the runs here: