Because Minnie started heat, then we had to change plans and cancel planned rally obedience competition and we could register at last minute to the agility competition instead. Judge was Alejandro Salas from Spain. 3x agility courses at grade 2.
1st course. Not the easiest courses for sure! The most tricky moment was the sequence after see-saw. I think my plan would have worked put I stayed to check on her on the jump after see-saw (it was inside). On that spot I kinda knew that Im in trouble for the next one (the critical one). And I was right - I was super behind and too afraid the wall, so called a lot and she was very good girl and took the jump (should have too ik from outside). DSQ. My line was not very good when sending her to the tunnel after, therefore Minnie was also mislead about the direction = massive time loss.
2nd course. It was not that tricky for us and I tried to keep in mind to be bolder on my run. I did that and everything worked well! Clean run, 1st place, speed 5.3 m/s!
3rd course. Extra tricky! Heard even on the ring side sentences like: "More difficult than this years tryouts" and "I would like to see how many grade 3 dogs can run it". For myself, When looking others run it I changed my plan. My initial plan was to blind cross after slalom to gain ground for the layered jump. I looked that nobody was doing it, they rear crossed instead, so I decided to do the same. It was very very bad decision on my side. I started to doubt if Minnie can stay in the slalom. Why? I dont know, Im still confident that she can. Anyway as I said it was very bad decision, because now I was very behind and Minnie turned back to other tunnel instead moving forward. DSQ. I pretty confident that with my blind crossing option this move would have worked. But anyways after dog-walk there was another part. Choice of jumps. Where Minnie should have take the straight one, but she turned and took the side one. This is something we have to work on. Other wise nice course :D
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