My second online class is Silvia's extreme foundation.
To be honest - I thought Niah and I will drop out from this class.. because the first lesson was verbal que proofing and teaching cik vs. cap, In-in vs. Out..
it was the hardest thing to teach...
Niah actually knows well about Right and Left command because I make him to spin to both direction so we became very good at it.
but I gave up on using cik/cap command at trial already, because I always get confused and not telling right command to him.. so I have been only using cik cik for all tight turn, and mostly using my body que to tell which way to turn.
Of Cause_ Niah wouldn't know the command if I don't use it correctly.
First 2 weeks was a bit too hard - I didn't enjoy the lessons at all.
but we are taking baby steps on verbals cues and we are slowly getting better every time.
Looks like I just need to keep on practice and be consistent in que!!!
2nd lesson gets a bit more fun -practicing come to hand - obstacle discrimination!
such a fun exercise and Niah and I LOVEd this :D exactly what we needed to practice!!
Showing posts with label agility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agility. Show all posts
2/21/2017
2/10/2017
2017 Our agility plan!
My 2017 started with full of training plans and I have now on going 3 online classes!
Ambitious plan but so far, I am in control and enjoying little play with Koto and Niah.
I am not a dog trainer or agility handler as I dream but I love playing with dogs and training Koto and Niah lift my life and I want to keep on learning even they are getting older. We always have some topic to train, and when we crush on a problem, we just need to move on and try to fix that problem by happy training. Most importantly, we need to keep on moving and never give up on those issues. So here we have 3 lessons!!
But started with a year with "a real life- training" at last weekend, I attend Australian agility instructor's workshop - and it was fun and made me think of a lot of detail of handling. Megan gave me a great tips, especially for the fraction moment of connecting with dogs, and early que, handler's location, etc.. a lot of details to think about when I am running at the course. It was such a nice seminar.
2017年は頭に中に入りきれない程の沢山の課題があるのです：）
ちょっと野心的すぎたかなと思いながらも、今 3つのオンラインクラスをやっています。
私はあんまり良いトレーナーじゃないし、夢に描く様なハンドラーでもなくていつも課題が多いのですが、前進するには本当に練習のみ。琴とニアはどんどん年をとって行くけど壁にぶつかったら一緒に、楽しみながら解決していくしかないんですよね、経験して覚えて行くいくしかないのですよね。諦めない事が一番大切。
先週 オーストラリアのトレーナーのメーガンベルさんのワークショップに参加してきました。普段オンラインで練習しているので こうやって細かいハンドリングの指導をして頂けるのは本当にうれしいし、勉強になります。犬とのコネクション、ハンドラーのロケーション、速めのクロス、一人の先生からずっと教えてもらうのではなく、色々な人に色々なセオリーを教えてもらうのはとても大切だとおもいます。いいとこ、自分に会う所取り！かなり勉強になったセミナーでした。
I am still taking handling class with Zeljko.
He is the best instructor I have ever had, we improved so much from his comment, thinking of handling, comparing handling choices- I will definitely continue to learn from him until he is available. Niah is awesome with Zeljko's course. He can run most of very complicated courses. Here is one of the lesson from January.
それから まだジェリコとのクラスも続けています。彼はインストラクションは本当にはっきりしてて、ストレートで良い所はいい！良くないときは もうぜんぜんだめ！！って感じで白黒ハッキリしてくれるので、本当に解りやすい。お陰でニアも私もかなり難しいコースも走れる様になってきたし、タイミングやニアの良い所、ダメな所、本当にはっきりしてきた。 相変わらず課題が多いけど、彼がインストラクターをしてくれるかぎり続けて行くつもりです。
10/02/2016
Agility trial in Slovenia
September 10th Saturday, We visit Slovenian Agility competition with Gabi.
The venue was located in the middle of beautiful Slovenian mountain valley.
Not only stunning location with layers and layers of mountains, there was also crystal clear mountain river stream and very well looked after community or shared garden right next to the competition. I assume all the vegetable has full of mountain mineral water, looks very healthy and full of nutrition :) Yum!
We set up shade tent before the course set up :D Gabi is very organised!!
This never happened to me in my whole agility life. lol
Not only the location, the organization and people were really lovely. People brought beautiful cakes and sweets to collect donation to replace jumps. Very good idea to get donation for updating equipment. The cake were really tasty, the best quality sweets and yes, we donate a lot to swap with those best looking and delicious cakes!
Too many sweets photos :)
Another surprise was I saw 2 police man hanging out at the competition with glass of beer! I'm not really sure they were working, but on police uniform.. so we thought they were at work :) Probably not much crime happening here!
It was comfortable temperature in the morning, but afternoon had quite strong sun. The organiser did made announcement to not leave your dogs in the car.
I notice many people uses Silver sun reflection cloth over the car, and it reflect 70% of sun. Nice product for Australian sun and I always wanted to buy this. This is going to be my souvenir!
Anyways, back to agility. There was only one ring in this competition so most of people had only 2 runs in all one day. A1 (Novice) and A2 (Excellent) start in the morning, and compete in the morning only. A3 starts in the afternoon, this means when you became A3, you can wake up at 10 or 11 am, then come to competition in the afternoon!! Or you can go home and relax in the afternoon when you are competing with A1 or A2 dogs. How nice is this system?
I think having a one ring only - makes people very relax and watch other people's runs. You can really concentrate on your dog, never need to rush like here in Australia, always have so many runs in a day. I saw many handlers are helping another handler at course walk, giving some handling tips.
After watched everyone's run all day, we felt we were so lucky to watched very high quality agility and very relaxed and happy dogs at this competition. There are so many famous top handlers, I always watch those peoples run on youtube, but videos never captures their connection with the dogs so it was very exciting for me to watch how those people play and warm up/ cool down their dogs, and how they reward dogs!
How cool to hang out with Puppy Diary star, Silvia's To and Monika's Sheltie Seven?
Unfortunately To had a toe injury so we couldn't watch her run this day, but wow, she is pretty and super friendly ❤
I saw many shaved Border Collie and Shelties!! wow :D
Bi's amazing cik/cap ❤
Silvia practicing start stay with Le just before her run.
As we are not even allowed to tug with dogs in the ring or even after the run, Slovenian dogs excitement/ speed or happiness is completely different level to Australian competition. It is the most stupid rules we have and truly old fashion, I believe this rule came from obedience competition, and we felt that we really really needs to change this rule to achieve "Real Agility".
I felt it is most important thing to consider right now, upgrading equipment is next!!.
I hope Australian competition will be more relaxed about it and allow people to train at the competition someday. Restriction for tugging and "must put dogs on lead before leave the ring" totally putting dog's excitement off.
Super midget in action!! Wow a real Le was super fast, (everyone knows she is super fast, but actually she was faster than you see on video!)
I just couldn't believe that my camera actually caught her running :)
Perfect Matej's Juice!
Here is a video of the wonderful day's run. (Miha and Duce)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeKsgma00I
The venue was located in the middle of beautiful Slovenian mountain valley.
Not only stunning location with layers and layers of mountains, there was also crystal clear mountain river stream and very well looked after community or shared garden right next to the competition. I assume all the vegetable has full of mountain mineral water, looks very healthy and full of nutrition :) Yum!
This never happened to me in my whole agility life. lol
Not only the location, the organization and people were really lovely. People brought beautiful cakes and sweets to collect donation to replace jumps. Very good idea to get donation for updating equipment. The cake were really tasty, the best quality sweets and yes, we donate a lot to swap with those best looking and delicious cakes!
Another surprise was I saw 2 police man hanging out at the competition with glass of beer! I'm not really sure they were working, but on police uniform.. so we thought they were at work :) Probably not much crime happening here!
It was comfortable temperature in the morning, but afternoon had quite strong sun. The organiser did made announcement to not leave your dogs in the car.
I notice many people uses Silver sun reflection cloth over the car, and it reflect 70% of sun. Nice product for Australian sun and I always wanted to buy this. This is going to be my souvenir!
Anyways, back to agility. There was only one ring in this competition so most of people had only 2 runs in all one day. A1 (Novice) and A2 (Excellent) start in the morning, and compete in the morning only. A3 starts in the afternoon, this means when you became A3, you can wake up at 10 or 11 am, then come to competition in the afternoon!! Or you can go home and relax in the afternoon when you are competing with A1 or A2 dogs. How nice is this system?
I think having a one ring only - makes people very relax and watch other people's runs. You can really concentrate on your dog, never need to rush like here in Australia, always have so many runs in a day. I saw many handlers are helping another handler at course walk, giving some handling tips.
People are looking at competition result and time.
The result is up on the board as soon as the competition finished.
One of the jumping course in A2.
Courses were very nice. I really liked A3 course! Challenging yet fast and flows well. After watched everyone's run all day, we felt we were so lucky to watched very high quality agility and very relaxed and happy dogs at this competition. There are so many famous top handlers, I always watch those peoples run on youtube, but videos never captures their connection with the dogs so it was very exciting for me to watch how those people play and warm up/ cool down their dogs, and how they reward dogs!
How cool to hang out with Puppy Diary star, Silvia's To and Monika's Sheltie Seven?
Unfortunately To had a toe injury so we couldn't watch her run this day, but wow, she is pretty and super friendly ❤
As we are not even allowed to tug with dogs in the ring or even after the run, Slovenian dogs excitement/ speed or happiness is completely different level to Australian competition. It is the most stupid rules we have and truly old fashion, I believe this rule came from obedience competition, and we felt that we really really needs to change this rule to achieve "Real Agility".
I felt it is most important thing to consider right now, upgrading equipment is next!!.
I hope Australian competition will be more relaxed about it and allow people to train at the competition someday. Restriction for tugging and "must put dogs on lead before leave the ring" totally putting dog's excitement off.
I just couldn't believe that my camera actually caught her running :)
Here is a video of the wonderful day's run. (Miha and Duce)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeKsgma00I
8/14/2016
prize for being healthy! (sometimes!)
I just loooove this wing jump trophy from England! very cute and very rewarding for what I do, such a great little prize!
去年も今年も怪我が多くて冴えない 年だったんだけど、怪我の合間の功績でなんとトロフィーを3つも頂きました！一つは以前も書いた、琴のナショナルジャンピングの3席、あと2つはニアの2年連続のタイトル取得でアジリティクラブから頂いたトロピィー！
得にウイングジャンプのトロフィーが可愛くて気にいっています。ついてなかったけど、こうやって表彰されると永遠と続くように感じるアジリティトレーニングもやっててよかったなぁーという気もちになれます❤
6/26/2016
Nationals 3-5 Days
Ahh! If you are ever visiting here few times, So sorry, I totally abandon my blog for awhile, Its been somewhat chaotic days, and I just didn't have time for my diary!
So.. Its been too long to report the nationals now, so quickly (in English!)
Niah and I couldn't get to the final because of unlucky one bar!! every run, and he also gets scared of see-saw and totally refused to go to Dog walk and See saw.
I didn't run all the agility unforturately.
Koto and Dean did awesome on Sunday's JDM final and the acutally clear run with Dean's amazing calmness and concentration. I always suprise how good is Dean, when he does things in the most nervous situations, He is really amazing husband (sometimes!!)
And I am so so proud of my crazy Koto did her best, jumping the height she hasn't jump for 2 years, stayed calm and did exactly Dean asked! Very good girl :)
ごめんなさーい！完全に日々の忙しさに飲込まれてブログを放置してしまいました。
本当に今更なのですが、Australian National の続き！
金曜日が完全にキャンセルとなったので
土曜は金曜にあるはずだった競技を縮小してJDM／ADMが1走ずつ、それからSnookerが1走ありました、が、前にも書いた様にシーソーで完全にコンタクトの自信を失ってしまったニアを走らせるのは可哀想なのでアジリティは辞退。JDMのみ。snookerもコンタクトがあるので無理、、、と言う訳でちょっと走ったけど、コンタクトは無視してさっさと退場。。ジャッジさんごめんなさい！
JDMの最後のコースは結構タイトでちまちまコース、こういうの、私とニアはかなり得意なんだけど、最後Forced Front Cross をするつもりだったところ、、ふっと忘れてしまい、あわててPush backに変更したせいでニアとぶつかりそうになり、バー落下。。
私達ペアはFinalへ進む事はできませんでした。（涙）＿
棚ぼたの9位で出場権獲得したの琴とディーンに頑張ってもらうしかない！
と言う訳で、日曜はファイナル。
500のファイナルは28匹が走り上位3位を争います。
ディーンと琴は２走目！速い方が断然集中力もあがるし、琴もそわそわしなくてすむから
これまたラッキー。
結果は唖然！ディーンのいつもの集中力と落ち着きで見事クリアー。一カ所ものすごくワイドになった箇所があり、それからダブルバーに後ろ足がカツンとあたったにもかかわらず
バーはおちず、なんとも全てがラッキー！！
琴にはこの2年、500を飛ばせてなかったしディーンも競技会には約2年でていない状態なのに、遠征してるし、ちょっと遊び！くらいなノリで申し込んだNationalだったので驚きでした！
おめでとう琴、ディーンさん！よくがんばったね〜❤
6/03/2016
The Nationals 1-3 days.
The Nationals officially started on Wednesday, and we needed check in on Tuesday,
it is nearly a week of agility while you are camping or staying in this area.
We thought our dogs are not fit enough to do agility for 5 days, in fact they are just came back from injury and not enough muscle to support their strength.
On Wednesday was pretty crappy weather and we just stayed in Bed and totally relaxed at beach walk! We also did shopping not in lush, then finally drove to the Wirrina cove!
The location was spectacular, it was more than I was expected, surrounded by nature and ocean, such a pretty area to do agility while you are camping in the cove!
We put up our tent, cooked dinner properly, eat well - then finally ready for the event!
Thursday was beautiful day, and both Koto and Niah were looking good at Jumping.
Niah had unfortunate 1 bar, but Koto was lucky enough to get to the 9th!!! and qualified for the final!! woo hoo!!
Unfortunately, Niah had a terrible experience at the practice area's see saw, it was bad see saw and made huge bang noise, he freaked out and decided to continued to freak out on his favorite Dog Walk as well :( it was hardbreaking that he couldn't even stand at Dog walk. I scratched from every agility event. it was sad..
Friday, we had massive storm!! so event was cancelled!! well, I thought it was great decision, dog's safety is the most important and saving the ground for the weekend was very good idea!!
水曜日から始まったNationalsですが、まだ2匹とも怪我がなおったばかりで体力が完璧ではないし、毎日アジリティの長丁場では日曜まで持たないのではないかと思って、初日はエントリーしませんでした。
あまりいい天気ではなかったし、朝ゆっくりベットでごろごとおもいっきりゆっくり休んだあと、ビーチに行ったりのんびり買物をしてからいざ会場のWirrina Coveへ！
会場のロケーションは想像以上に抜群で丘に囲まれた海のすぐそば。
大自然に囲まれた中で、キャンプをしながらのアジリティは本当に最高！
ゆっくりテントをはって、料理をして、翌日からの競技のエントリーを済ませてすっかりホリデー気分で準備万全！
木 曜日のジャンピングはとってもいい調子！JDM（ジャンピングドックマスター、3度？）の出場犬数が190頭ほどだったので、3日間で3回あるジャンピン グで上位9匹までに入ったペアががファイナルへ進めるという仕組み。ニアと私はあいにくの1barでファイナル件は貰えず。。
でもディーンと琴がなんとぎりぎり９位に入賞！しかも最後のタイヤに後ろ足があたったけど、タイヤは落ちず、ぎりぎりせーふ！！棚から牡丹餅な感じでファイナル権獲得！
こ の日 アジリティ出走前に練習エリアでニアとシーソーの練習をしていたら、雨で滑ってしまい、ちょっと壊れかけのシーソーがかなり大きな音をたてたので、 本当にビビってしまい、、、なんと、ニアくんシーソーにも大好きなドッグウォークにもまったく登らなくなってしまった。。
夕方 もう一度練習エリアでシーソーとドッグウォークをクリッカーとディナーボールを持って練習した所、更に恐怖が悪化していたので、練習終了、残念だけど、全てのアジリティ競技を辞退しました。
翌日の金曜は嵐のような天気に見舞われ、イベントは犬のセーフティを考慮してまる一日キャンセルとなりました！素晴らしい！
it is nearly a week of agility while you are camping or staying in this area.
We thought our dogs are not fit enough to do agility for 5 days, in fact they are just came back from injury and not enough muscle to support their strength.
On Wednesday was pretty crappy weather and we just stayed in Bed and totally relaxed at beach walk! We also did shopping not in lush, then finally drove to the Wirrina cove!
The location was spectacular, it was more than I was expected, surrounded by nature and ocean, such a pretty area to do agility while you are camping in the cove!
We put up our tent, cooked dinner properly, eat well - then finally ready for the event!
Thursday was beautiful day, and both Koto and Niah were looking good at Jumping.
Niah had unfortunate 1 bar, but Koto was lucky enough to get to the 9th!!! and qualified for the final!! woo hoo!!
Unfortunately, Niah had a terrible experience at the practice area's see saw, it was bad see saw and made huge bang noise, he freaked out and decided to continued to freak out on his favorite Dog Walk as well :( it was hardbreaking that he couldn't even stand at Dog walk. I scratched from every agility event. it was sad..
Friday, we had massive storm!! so event was cancelled!! well, I thought it was great decision, dog's safety is the most important and saving the ground for the weekend was very good idea!!
水曜日から始まったNationalsですが、まだ2匹とも怪我がなおったばかりで体力が完璧ではないし、毎日アジリティの長丁場では日曜まで持たないのではないかと思って、初日はエントリーしませんでした。
あまりいい天気ではなかったし、朝ゆっくりベットでごろごとおもいっきりゆっくり休んだあと、ビーチに行ったりのんびり買物をしてからいざ会場のWirrina Coveへ！
会場のロケーションは想像以上に抜群で丘に囲まれた海のすぐそば。
大自然に囲まれた中で、キャンプをしながらのアジリティは本当に最高！
ゆっくりテントをはって、料理をして、翌日からの競技のエントリーを済ませてすっかりホリデー気分で準備万全！
木 曜日のジャンピングはとってもいい調子！JDM（ジャンピングドックマスター、3度？）の出場犬数が190頭ほどだったので、3日間で3回あるジャンピン グで上位9匹までに入ったペアががファイナルへ進めるという仕組み。ニアと私はあいにくの1barでファイナル件は貰えず。。
でもディーンと琴がなんとぎりぎり９位に入賞！しかも最後のタイヤに後ろ足があたったけど、タイヤは落ちず、ぎりぎりせーふ！！棚から牡丹餅な感じでファイナル権獲得！
こ の日 アジリティ出走前に練習エリアでニアとシーソーの練習をしていたら、雨で滑ってしまい、ちょっと壊れかけのシーソーがかなり大きな音をたてたので、 本当にビビってしまい、、、なんと、ニアくんシーソーにも大好きなドッグウォークにもまったく登らなくなってしまった。。
夕方 もう一度練習エリアでシーソーとドッグウォークをクリッカーとディナーボールを持って練習した所、更に恐怖が悪化していたので、練習終了、残念だけど、全てのアジリティ競技を辞退しました。
翌日の金曜は嵐のような天気に見舞われ、イベントは犬のセーフティを考慮してまる一日キャンセルとなりました！素晴らしい！
6/01/2016
SA Agility Nationals trip Day:2-3 at Goolwa holiday
We really loved laid back little town Goolwa and Victor Habour.
There are quite many old aged people lives there but also had nice sight seeing places and cute cafe and nice restaurants. We enjoyed walking around the town and also visit bird sanctuary national park island, let the dogs to stretch out their legs, and watched beautiful sunset. Very relaxing time!!
During the day, we did a bit of practice jumping with our portable wing jumps!
wow, they are really awesome! so light weight and we can do jumping anywhere we go!
翌日 時間がゆっくり流れる穏やかな港町GoolwaとVictor Harbourを
散歩してみました。鳥だけが住む島、Coorong National Park, バードサンクチュアリーエリアをコーヒーを飲みながら観光して、夕方には凄く奇麗な夕日をボーと見て過ごし、
一気にリラックス！
翌日は最近購入したポータブルジャンプを持って 公園でジャンピングの練習をしました。
このジャンプ、凄く軽いし良く出来てる上に、持ち運びができてどこでもジャンピングができる 優れもの〜❤ イイネ！
There are quite many old aged people lives there but also had nice sight seeing places and cute cafe and nice restaurants. We enjoyed walking around the town and also visit bird sanctuary national park island, let the dogs to stretch out their legs, and watched beautiful sunset. Very relaxing time!!
During the day, we did a bit of practice jumping with our portable wing jumps!
wow, they are really awesome! so light weight and we can do jumping anywhere we go!
翌日 時間がゆっくり流れる穏やかな港町GoolwaとVictor Harbourを
散歩してみました。鳥だけが住む島、Coorong National Park, バードサンクチュアリーエリアをコーヒーを飲みながら観光して、夕方には凄く奇麗な夕日をボーと見て過ごし、
一気にリラックス！
翌日は最近購入したポータブルジャンプを持って 公園でジャンピングの練習をしました。
このジャンプ、凄く軽いし良く出来てる上に、持ち運びができてどこでもジャンピングができる 優れもの〜❤ イイネ！
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