cpeagilitytraining

This was a super tough course that Betsi gave us to run this week. We were certainly testing our skills as a team. I was thrilled to get a nice lead out from the table, a piece of equipment, we train very little. She was responsive to my cues, and handling and I am very proud of the results during this class.

Well not all training sessions will go the way you want. On this day I was not in a great frame of mind to start class. But we did show up. MeiLi could feel I was a bit stressed, and it showed in her work. She struggled with things she is normally pretty comfortable with like the teeter. Oh well I am glad we went and I felt better leaving than I did when I

Today we had a rough start to class but once she got going, she did very well. The start line frustration needs to be worked through as she is going to be very fast. I want to teach her all the skills we will need for me to run her years from now when I am going to be much older.

Trying to learn some more difficult weave pole entries. This should help us at trials with MeiLi being able to go out and find the weaves and also learning to control her body to collect for entries.

The first run started out rough, but I was extremely happy with the weave pole entry since that has been our focus at home. I tried using a toy on the second run. I am not so sure that helped her focus at all. Once she got past the start line issues it went fairly well. I ended the run early while I had her head. It was a good learning experience for me.

MeiLi struggled with the weaves as the gates were nearby and I was trying to work on a rear cross entry. It took a while be she finally got it. The rest of the first run was very nice. The second I did a blind cross entry and while not clean it was better. I think we know what our homework is for the next few weeks. We did get a short turn after the