Lulu & Minnie

Our third competition in RK2 grade. Unfortunately we managed to do rally training in the past month only once. Judge was Lauma Zutere from Latvia. 1st course. Minnie was good and calm. During the first 12 signs we had only little things (3x-1p). But then we got closer to the temptation :) the sign before the temptation - she lost her focus to me and did not undersaand what I want - started to offer nose touch :) we got in total -6p from this sign. Then the temptation itself  - she was doing actually pretty good - only the penguin took her attention for too long. -3 points. After temptation it was easy run. In total -12points. I have to say that I choose to do the course with the leach, because I knew that then she will be more in contact with me.  88points gave us I place. 2nd course. Without jump or temptation. So of course I wanted to take the leash off. I also felt That I started a bit too rushed from the car...I should have taken more time. Anyway Minnie was more di...

Time for outdoor season. Our training moved outside just this week. So we had a outside raining in this week earlier. The competition was in Viljandi and judge was Einari Pekkala from Finland, we are still on grade 2 level. On the way to the competition I received very sad news that my grandma has passed. So it was mentally more challenging than in other competitions.  1. course. Jumping. I think it was pretty easy course. There was couple of tunnel traps and maybe some thinking what would be the best slalom entry. Minnie slipped two time on the course. I think it was the "new" surface. Everything went by the plan except I planned to blind cross before tyre, but in reality I ran too much into the jump and ended up rear crossing. But all went good. Clean run, speed 5.48 m/s and first place!  2. course. Jumping. Again very smooth course. There was one tricky place. Just after first tunnel. I made plans to try to blind cross to be safer. I managed to blind quite easy for my su...

 Well, 4th qualifiers for AWC. This time judge was Anna Schönenberger.  1st course . Agility. While course walk. there was 2 obvious moments where I would have problems. Slalom entry and tunnel exit after dog-walk.  So for slalom I managed to blind and slalom entry was successful. I was very happy of that. After dog walk I did extra 3 steps towards the jump. That made me being late for the plan to blond cross after tunnel. Of course when Minnie entered the tunnel and I saw that Im only on the mid tunnel, I realised that I will not make it. But I still tried to make the blind...why? dont know. Of course I should have stayed behind an call her....but since I dint then she took the long jump instead. DSQ . The rest of the course went very smoothly. I actually was very happy with the run!  2nd course. Jumping. Difficult for us. Lots of obstacles very close with each other. Many sharp turns needed. I was not 100% sure of my plans. And in addition to that, Minnie wa...