Upcoming Events

  • February 23-24 | AKC Trial | Manhattan, IL
  • April 6-7 | USDAA Trial | Indianapolis, IN (Pending)
  • April 20-21 | AKC Trial | Merrillville, IN
  • June 6-9 | UAD | Nashville, TN (Pending)
  • June 28-30 | DockDogs | McHenry, MD (Pending)

Current Accomplishments

  • AKC Agility - OA OAJ OF | 1 Excellent FAST leg, 2 Excellent A JWW legs, 2 Excellent A Standard legs
  • Dock Dogs Big Air PB - 25' - obtained in Vail, CO 06/10
  • Dock Dogs EV PB - 7' - obtained in Stillwater, MN 07/08
  • Dock Dogs (Indoor) EV - 6'10'' - obtained in Katy, TX 09/08
  • DockDogs SR PB - 5.518 - obtained in Stillwater, MN 07/09
  • Dock Dogs Top Gun Title (EV) - obtained in Rockford, IL 08/08
  • Dock Dogs - Elite Jumper Title - obtained in Vail, CO 06/2010
  • Invited to and Participated at 2010 World Championships in Iron Dog and Speed Retrieve
  • 1 of 16 Teams Invited to 2009 DockDogs World Championships (ID)
  • 3rd Place at 2009 DockDogs World Championships for Iron Dog
  • 1 of 18 Teams Invited to 2009 DockDogs World Championships (SR)
  • 1 of 16 Teams Invited to 2008 DockDogs World Championships (EV)
  • DockDogs - 1 leg towards Super Elite title
  • NADAC Agility - NAC | 2 Novice Jumper legs, 2 Novice T'nGo legs, 1 Novice Tunnelers leg, 1 Novice Weavers leg

Monday, October 20, 2008

He's Itching To Jump..

..most definitely! Yesterday, was a LVDD practice and I only let him jump a few times, but I could see a HUGE difference in his big air. He could barely (and only did like once) hold his start line! I'm going to just do agility with him until we leave for Cynosports, that way when he sees the pool, he goes REALLY nuts for it. We are doing a few more big air waves than originally thought, because we are going to get there Thursday instead of Friday. He will do a few big air waves, but then will do Super Vertical while down there. We are really looking forward to hanging out with some of our club members down there and just enjoying some laid back dock time.

This week, he just has his group class and one agility lesson, then next week, he'll have two private lessons and his group class (I think its our last week! :( ) .. then we'll head out to Arizona! After that.. the next weekend is our Las Vegas event, where he will do a few big air waves.. but also.. he gets to do an EV demo for the crowd! We are very excited, because my family has never got to see Tractor do EV at a competition, so it will be neat for them to see. :-)

After that event, we are done dock diving for the winter - and will spend all of our energy (and money) on agility. I would love to get him out of Novice - but with this newfound love for the sport.. its going to be pretty difficult to reign him in.. but we'll try our best!!

That's all for now! We might get some video of class tomorrow and if we do .. I'll post those!

1 comment:

Whitney said...

yes, post videos! no need to control the enthusiasm... you can work with it -- i love that tractor is so obsessed with agility now :)