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More Agility video clips
Here are some more agility clips--agility in the real world where I
often screw up! They're from the Lawrence Kansas trial last weekend. These files are between 2.5 and 4 megs each. The smaller ones were so lossy that it was just too difficult to see. On my cable modem it takes about 30 seconds to load the largest one, or you can right click and download to your computer. http://www.ddgraphix.com/agileruns.html |
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agility in the real world =ADwhere I
often screw up! Ain't it the truth! Sham and I debuted in Novice at her jump height last weekend, and while we Q'd twice in standard, *I* blew both jumper's runs. (Well, one was because she knocked a bar, but if I had set her up for the jump better, she probably wouldn't have.) It just goes so fast, I'm finding it hard to think on my feet. If all goes like I planned in the walk-thru, no too bad. But when something happens, my brane circuits are just too slow switching over to Plan B. I've sent Sham with a friend a couple of times when I couldn't go (who had a 100% Q rate with her, btw) but I've decided that I'm going to stop doing that for now, because it is ovious that it's not *her* that needs the experience... ;-) Robin says: Here are some more agility clips snip http://www.ddgraphix.com/agileruns.html And I do look forward to viewing them when I get time! It does help me to watch other performances of all types. Although I have found that I learn a course best when I memorize it from the map first - not what I will do on it, just the order and placement of the obstacles. For a map-challenged person, this came as quite a surprise!! Susan Fraser, and The Golden Girls |
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Susan Fraser wrote: agility in the real world *where I often screw up! Ain't it the truth! Sham and I debuted in Novice at her jump height last weekend, and while we Q'd twice in standard, *I* blew both jumper's runs. (Well, one was because she knocked a bar, but if I had set her up for the jump better, she probably wouldn't have.) It just goes so fast, I'm finding it hard to think on my feet. If all goes like I planned in the walk-thru, no too bad. But when something happens, my brane circuits are just too slow switching over to Plan B. That will come. After the number of years I've been doing it I have no such excuses. However, I *will* give a couple of reasons why I don't Q as often as I should. Viva is extremely sensitive to body movement. If I cue just a hair early or a hair late, things don't go well. If my shoulders are even an inch out of place, it will affect her. This is both good and bad--on the good side, she's a dream to run because she's so responsive. On the bad side, it takes just a tiny misjudgment on my part to blow a run. With Cala, I've got to learn a whole different language. She runs very differently than Viva, with much more distance. We're still feeling each other out and I expect it to be another year before we really start running in the semblance of a team. I've sent Sham with a friend a couple of times when I couldn't go (who had a 100% Q rate with her, btw) but I've decided that I'm going to stop doing that for now, because it is ovious that it's not *her* that needs the experience... ;-) Right. You need the experience. Robin says: Here are some more agility clips snip http://www.ddgraphix.com/agileruns.html And I do look forward to viewing them when I get time! It does help me to watch other performances of all types. Although I have found that I learn a course best when I memorize it from the map first - not what I will do on it, just the order and placement of the obstacles. For a map-challenged person, this came as quite a surprise!! Susan Fraser, and The Golden Girls I did that for a very long time, and will still look at a map if it's a really complex course. The map is really good for getting down placement of obstacles, then you can walk the course for strategy not for what comes next. These days I generally just walk the course but I have to be careful--I almost left out an entire pinwheel on one course last weekend, and then the last two jumps (which doubled back an unexpected direction) in another. I've actually lost a Q that way, when I thought the second to the last jump was the last one and touched my dog! |
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