Angel and her winnings!!

This morning i took all her trophies/crystals of the the display shlef and took them into the kitchen with a few of her rosettes. I wanted to get a nice pic of her with her prizes she has won, so here it is ...

New Photo's

Just thought i would post some photo's of Angel & Jazz, which Tina a lady from agility kindly took! She takes superb photo's here are a few ...

The gorgeous Angel

Angel running (Wind swept)

Jazz, Me, Angel

Jazz - Agility Training 13months old

Tonight i took Angel & Jazz to 'Paws' for training. Jazz was first up at 7.30 - We were working on snakes and pullthroughs on the first section. I really need to get used to handling Jazz different from how i handle Angel because she is a collie she rely's heavily on my body movement! Tonight taught me i really need to use my shoulders and arms even more because i was giving her the wrong signals!!

I was happy on how she was running, she seemed to really enjoy herself which is the main thing.

On the second section we had the A-Frame (which needs lots more work on getting her targets) She is faster on more open courses. I find she seems to work alot better when the jumps are well spread out, or it could be because i need to do more grid work her! She was faster on this course as it was more open!

All in all i am very pleased with how she was at training tonight! I need to work on my body language and hand signals.

Angel was such a little star!! She was like a little rocket i can't even begin to explain how pleased i am with her, she was motoring through all the courses. Her weaves were amazing (she ran in to a pole though bless her, she couldn't stop herself)

I had a problem with Angel's weaves she would jump out of the last 2 poles!! When i was training with Jane James she told me to add an extra 4 weave poles onto the normal 12 so it will teach Angel to weave no matter how many weaves are out. Which i think is a really good idea!

Here is a video of Jazz at training tonight...

Angel - GSD Agility Show

This morning me and Angel headed up to the Airport playing field for the GSD agility competition.

On the way to the show Angel looked really tired, she looked as if she wasn't going to run! But she proved me wrong.

There were 4 classes which she ran very nicely (just a shame about the handler!!)

Results..

Small Open Steeplechase: 5th - 5faults in the weaves (Me getting in her way)

Small Novice Jumping: 3rd

Small Novice Agility: E'D (I lost my way near the end, she had such a stunning round i could of kiced myself!! ARGH never mind this will teach me to walk courses properly next time!

Small Power & Speed: 5 faults in the weaves


Jane (The judge) gave me the 'If Only Trophy' she said: "If only i walked her course properly" Angel had a fast time in this class and would of most probably won it, just to make the mattter worse lol!


So overall Angel was running really well it is just the handler who let her down!

One thing i always do is in the weaves in training i will let Angel freely weave were as in the competitions i will encourage her by guiding her (it is a bad habbit which i need to get out off) Because i know she is capable of doing the weaves independatly its just she doesn't have the speed like she does in training.

Angel with her 'If Only Trophy' and her rossettes

Video of 2 of her runs (Small Novice Jumping & Small Novice Agility) ..

Jumping Action!!

When i was training last friday i got these photo's of Jazz jumping.

It shows how far ahead she takes of to jump and how straight her body is while she is in mid air!

I need to work on her strides by doing some gridwork... So much more training needed in this area!!


Here are the action shots of her jumping ..