Living Up To His Name...

His registered name... Texas Tornado is RIGHT. Tractor and I had an AMAZING time in his home state this last weekend down in Katy, TX. Not only did we get to meet tons of new dock diving people that we had been wanting to (Kari.. I am SOOO glad you, David and Finn drove down) but also had quite a few friends from around Texas make the drive (Tammy, Dhana/David, Tracey!!) to come see Tractor in action.

We got in and got settled at the hotel and then Tammy came and picked us up for dinner. After an AMAZING mexican dinner, we went to her friends house where Tractor got to romp around a HUGE yard and burn some energy.

Saturday we got there and he was entered in two BA waves and then EV. Well, his first wave, his best was a 19'11'' - securing his SENIOR JUMPER title nationally! YAY! His second wave, he jumped over 20' (I can't remember what his distance was exactly) getting another MASTER JUMPER leg! This was our first ever indoors event and he was jumping REALLY well. . . so I was pretty excited.

EV started at 6pm, and I knew beforehand that we were up again two really BIG jumping dogs.. and Rex (who... just you wait... will be breaking records once he gets his footing/confidence up on that dock.. he is just incredible) so I wasn't even thinking about winning. This was again, his first time indoors, and the ceiling was fairly low.. with lights and things, so I was nervous it would affect what he was seeing or how he would jump. Well.. it must not have! He jumped his way up from 6'2'' to 6'10'' - and he grazed 7', but it didn't fall. The other three in the top 4 all hit 6'8'', but missed at 6'10'' - so he ended up winning 1st place!! As shocking as it was.. it was also incredibly neat to be able to win at something he loves so much, especially in such strong company.

Sunday morning was Speed Retrieve. If you remember, he tried this for the first time last weekend and ended up coming in 1st with a time of 6.408 seconds.. so we were really excited to try this again... and he did AMAZING again. All of his times were under 7 seconds again and he went on to the final 8 with a score (I think.. will confirm once results are up) of 6.7. He then went on to get a score of 6.8 in finals and won first place!!!!!!

After SR, we did one more big air wave, where he jumped another 20'er and secured yet another MASTER JUMPER leg. He also went on to join the top 8 for SEMI PRO finals, where he jumped over 20' again.. I'm not sure where that puts us for his MASTER JUMPER title, but when I do.. I'll be sure to update!

Anyway.. this was by far the BEST weekend.. and probably most exciting event we have been to. We are home this weekend, but then next weekend.. off to Colorado for a Club event. After that, we'll be going to Nationals in Wisconsin in October. I am pretty nervous about this.. as much fun as it will be.. he does NOT do well in the cold.. and I'm sure its gonna be pretty dang cold up there by then.. but either way, we'll go and have a blast I'm sure.

Pictures/videos up soon.. if you want to see some video from LAST weekend, be sure to see my Youtube. www.youtube.com/myvarietypack

Thanks for all the texts and emails congratulating us.. we could not have asked for a better weekend!! :)