August 12, 2000
NADAC
There are No Brief Summaries to the Adventures of Team Bean
Trying to avoid going to bed
VERY early, I have decided to start on the Adventures of Beanhead. I had six
runs today and to be honest, I am exhausted. The good thing is that I do not
hurt today, as I got smart. I took a Tylenol PM last night and wore my brace
for my runs. Susie was kind and bought me the biggest bottle of C-Jointin she
could find.
In essence, I was able to keep
up with the boys today, much to their horror.
The weather held off for the
most part. We did have a few sprinkles here and there, but the heavy stuff was
reserved for the ride home. Thank God.
By 9am, while most of you were
waking up, I had already run Crumpie three times. ARUGH I need to find a
sport that is slower and starts later in the day.
Open Standard
Crumpie
For the most part the run was
nice, but he missed the offside weave entry, dropped a bar, then went and jumped
the DW contact. It was just one of those runs where everything was fluid and
moving, but things were just going wrong.
The GOOD thing about this
run??????There was a YUMMY tunnel RIGHT under that DogWalk and he NEVER even
looked at it. Not only that, but the tunnel was positioned so that the two ends
flanked the DW. There was no way one could handle from the other side.
TRAPville and we passed right though town.
Happy Mom won out again.
NQ, 2nd place.
Open Standard
Crumpie
There was nothing super
special about this course, so you would think Beanhead would be able to stick to
the DW contact would you?
Noooooooooooooooo.
NQ, 2nd place
3 minutes later. Literally�.
Open Gamblers
Crumpie
Hum. Did she say OPEN? Yes.
I realized that the only way to get practice on the next level was to just go
and do it. Worst comes to worst�..I step over the Gamble line and give him
success.
So we start and on the second
DW pass, he jumps the contact. Like that was a surprise? So the third time he
was told to "Stick your butt to that contact Mister" (one of my favorite
commands). He did. Yeaaaa for Crumpie.
So the whistle blows and we
head off to the gamble area�yes you are going to hear about this. It is a jump,
frame, tunnel under the frame, jump, jump combo. I was not expecting Crumpie to
even get out to the frame, as the distance is a good 20 feet. I am not going
for a Q, I am going for the frame. He goes out to the jump, does NOT hesitate,
goes right up the frame�and MAKES the contact coming down. I call "here" to
break the line of sight to the jump and follow it with "tunnel". Nope. Crumpie
has his smiley face on and he cannot figure Mom out. He comes to me and stands
there.
"GO TUNNEL!" Stands there and blinks.
"OUT TUNNEL"
Blink, blink, bark, blink.
"TUNNEL?" (Yes the body language is being applied here as well as the verbal commands.)
Bark, blink, blink. ( Not kidding, Betsy)
Ok, this is not working. Think fast Joyce.
Now I am the one blinking.
"LOOK BACK TUNNEL".
Where the
heck did this come from? Julie and Deb had talked about this command in class
and I had trained it for about five minutes during class�..six months ago. I
just needed him to look behind him�.LOOK meaning look away from me and BACK for
back up which I taught Crumpie for the conformation ring.
He turns away and
starts to move. "TUNNEL" and Crumpie is off, but for the first jump he misses
it. The distance by this time is 30 feet and there was no way. The whistle
blew and it was time to haul some butt to the finish line.
Now that was a run! And from
a handler who still sucks at Gambles. It did help to have a full line of
commands that Julie uses, as in this case it worked.
NQ, 2nd place��..but in my
heart the biggest darned Q one could ever get�.bigger then the Q from two
weekends ago when Crumpie avoided that tunnel that gave him "Happy Mom".
Have the afternoon off and then it is time to juggle Novice Standard with Fred and Open Jumpers with
Crumpie.
Novice Standard
Fred
Ok, this is NOT Fred. He does
the stay on the line and then zones me out. He did not run off or anything
normal, he just zoned. It was weird. He did a teeter-totter fly off and then
misses the weave poles (that part is normal). Once in the poles, he does
nothing to work them. That is NOT normal. He may goof up, but his heart is IN
goofing up. Not now. We get threw and then it is tunnel time. He pops out.
Aliens may have abducted Fred,
but they replaced him while he was in the tunnel because when he came out�.he
was flying and focused on me. The rest of the run was gorgeous and normal,
right down to the two knocked bars at the end.
NQ
Novice Standard
Fred
Stay on the start line? We
forgot how to do that. Ok, we are off and running and Freddy is focused beyond
focused. He gets all of the contacts, but starts to drop bars. A lot of bars.
He has another teeter fly off and drops more bars.
He is moving with me and
constantly checking in. What a different dog from half an hour before. Now if
the three agility venues could start a "contact and tunnels" course, Freddy and
I are there.
NQ
5 minutes later
Open Jumpers
Crumpie
This course was technical big
time. Like the course we had two weeks ago in Jumpers, there was another tunnel
trap with the turn to the left this time. Hanging back worked last time around
and I elected to do it again.
We are off and running and
Crumpie is hauling, I have to call him off that tunnel trap and he responds.
Haul, haul, haul and then in the most unlikely spot? Wanna guess? Hum. A
dropped bar.
This was a fun course to run.
NQ, 2nd place
So instead of our normal blue
color scheme, Crumpie has collect 4 more red ribbons, the theme of the day.
For those who know and care:
Elaine and Nan had some really
great runs today, but DW contacts and Time were the hardships. They did
however, get their second and final leg for the Novice Gamblers Title. : )
Mary and Tess had awesome runs
as well, and did come home with one 10-point Q for their Novice Standard Title.
: )
Both Elaine and Mary really
did a beautiful job with their handling and truly deserved Qs, but
technicalities like TIME got in the way. NADAC is not known for extended course
times. One misstep and one gets a NQ.
Well, tomorrow is another day
and that yields six more runs. My sister said that the shape I am in now, is
the best it has ever been. "You look great." My response despite the fact that
I feel no different?
Run the Corgis, you'll lose weight reeeeeeeeeally fast.
Type you all later,
Joyce
(((( The continuation to this email was lost in the archives. Sorry. ))))
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