Thursday, January 21, 2010

Running Contacts and USDAA trial

I started training running contacts with Moxie and Hustle, and the possibility of letting Sally run them as well... Here are the videos..
http://www.vimeo.com/8597469

http://www.vimeo.com/8600940

http://www.vimeo.com/8602342

I havent gotten a chance to do much more than this due to weather... First snow and then all the rain.
Moxie is hopping a little more than I like, but I am hoping this subsides with more angle on the dogwalk board.
At the USDAA trial, Moxie was about 50% on her dogwalk contact, and 100% on her Aframe, though I think she is jumping higher off the aframe right now than I would like. Considering I have done almost no training since the initial switch, she did pretty well. Sally is still stopping, which is perfect because I think a true running would be a disaster with her! I do want her coming down the boards faster, so I think that is my goal with letting her run contacts at home. Do I like switching criteria on her? Absolutely not, but I think she is pretty resilient and can figure it fast enough.
 Sally was awesome at 16 inches in USDAA! She got 2 standard legs, a pairs leg and had a very nice Grand Prix run.
 Moxie was great, but a few mistakes like dogwalk misses kept her out of GP and her final standard run.

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