The last 3 month, I've learn agility from Jouni & Isabelle, Finnish/Swedish coach. Advanced and " real running" course! It was really fun! so much fun :)
More to come on next course
3ヶ月間のJouniのオンラインコース、楽しかった ♥
次もがんばります
8/21/2014
8/12/2014
Sheep herding 1st lesson at Driving force working dog club!
We are finally back in sheep herding last weekend!
It has been 2.5 years since we stopped herding lesson.
This time, we are attending to another working sheep club for
2 reasons：
- Koto's confident building: Work on her reactive behavior to dogs and animals, We want to build her confidence and connection to us.
- Perhaps, start sheep herding trail with Niah next year. This herding club has own trial using ISDS trail form, which is very exciting. Always good to have something to work for and achievement.
Our new school was excellent, environment, teaching method and instructors are all great. Instruction fee was very cheap for this environment too. We will be working on both in small pan to teach basic commands and learn what handler will do!
Then, also take them to paddock, so that dog will learn how to bring sheep back to us.
We did trail assessment day, both Koto and Niah had a 4 go in the pan and paddock.
We are happy with what they have done, Specially Niah has good instinct of herding sheep in calmly. Koto is more likely for moving a large mob of stock.
Hope her barking and running will be less and she will figure out what to do, and not to waste her energy too much. But most important things for her is "life lesson" through sheep herding. She is not really suitable for sheep herding... but we believe her timid, reactive, and anti-social behavior will improve!
Lets find out!
2年半ぶりにハーディングへ行ってきました。ずっと前から行ってみたかった学校のトライアルレッスンへ参加したのですが、凄ーく良い学校で驚きました。環境、先生のインストラクション、それにカリキュラムが素晴らしい。ペンの中での練習だけでは犬は右回り、左回りマテやステディなどのコマンドくらいしか学ばないのでフィールドでのレッスンと平行して行います。
そして何と言っても犬は本能で動けるのですが、その本能を操る為の”ハンドラーのレッスン”をまずしっかり行ないます。羊の性格や動き方、ファーマーにとっては基本的な事なのかもしれませんが、都会でペットのボーダーと暮らす私達には解ないのです。
犬なしで3頭の羊をどうやって動かすのか？ 100頭の羊はどうやって動かすのか？
そんなレッスンから始めいきます。
来年はこのクラブ主催のハーディングトライアルも行なわれる予定なのでそれに向けて
これから月に2回ペースでレッスンして行く予定です。
今回のハーディングのレッスンへ戻って来た目的は二つ。
- 琴に自信をつけさせて、犬へのアグレッション、動物へのリアクションを 減らす事。マナーを学ばせる、それから私達とのもっと深いコネクションを築く事。
- ニアとトライアルをやってみる事。
反対に良く吠える、スピードをつけてどんどん追いかける琴は100頭とか大きな群れの牛 や羊を動かす力を持っています。でも 正直、羊追い向きの犬ではありません。
無駄にエネルギーを消耗している、まだ一体なにをしていいのか解っていない。。
とにかく琴はハーディングよりもマナーを学ばせる事と自信を付ける事が一番大切なのです。 ゆっくりやっていきます！
8/06/2014
Searching for snow Day-2
Sunday, we drove about 2.5 hrs to search more snow in the mountain!
I mean, a real decent snow!
And yes, we definitely found amazing amount of powder snow, perfect spot for us to enjoy snow hiking!
Koto and Niah just love it running back and force with full speed with the happiest smile! It was priceless to watching them running so happily :)
How could you imagine to fine a pure powder snow in Australian bush?
Unfortunately, we couldn't climb to the summit, there was fox baits sign on the road.. We didn't wanted risk our self from koto and Niah accidentally eating baits...
But we still enjoyed so much! We did hike another mountain road for about one hour!
We also saw an amazing water fall on the way there!
Here are koto and Niah's happiest smile!!
日曜日は更に雪を探しにうちから 2.5時間ドライブして山へ入りました。
雪と言っても 先日の雪とは違って、この日は積雪量の多い標高1400の山へ行ったので フカフカの パウダースノーが見れました。
もう琴とニアは大興奮‼︎
途中、倒れた木で道がふさがっていたけど、無理矢理山へ入って来てちょっと心配だったし、頂上へ行く道は キツネの数を減らす為にフォックスベイトを撒いたばかりで
入れなかったりだったけど、遠くまで足を運んで良かった〜 途中で滝も見れたよ！
（フォックスベイト：生肉の塊を道路脇などに置いて仕掛けていることが多いのです。強力な毒で 犬も食べれば直ぐに死んでしまいます。オーストラリアは外来種のキツネ、ウサギ野生の猫の数が増えてしまいネイティブバードの数が減ったりと生態に影響が出て来ているのでこうやってコントロールしています。）
I mean, a real decent snow!
And yes, we definitely found amazing amount of powder snow, perfect spot for us to enjoy snow hiking!
Koto and Niah just love it running back and force with full speed with the happiest smile! It was priceless to watching them running so happily :)
How could you imagine to fine a pure powder snow in Australian bush?
Unfortunately, we couldn't climb to the summit, there was fox baits sign on the road.. We didn't wanted risk our self from koto and Niah accidentally eating baits...
But we still enjoyed so much! We did hike another mountain road for about one hour!
We also saw an amazing water fall on the way there!
Here are koto and Niah's happiest smile!!
日曜日は更に雪を探しにうちから 2.5時間ドライブして山へ入りました。
雪と言っても 先日の雪とは違って、この日は積雪量の多い標高1400の山へ行ったので フカフカの パウダースノーが見れました。
もう琴とニアは大興奮‼︎
途中、倒れた木で道がふさがっていたけど、無理矢理山へ入って来てちょっと心配だったし、頂上へ行く道は キツネの数を減らす為にフォックスベイトを撒いたばかりで
入れなかったりだったけど、遠くまで足を運んで良かった〜 途中で滝も見れたよ！
（フォックスベイト：生肉の塊を道路脇などに置いて仕掛けていることが多いのです。強力な毒で 犬も食べれば直ぐに死んでしまいます。オーストラリアは外来種のキツネ、ウサギ野生の猫の数が増えてしまいネイティブバードの数が減ったりと生態に影響が出て来ているのでこうやってコントロールしています。）
8/05/2014
Searching for Snow -Mt. Macedon hike -easy climbing for 1.45hrs-
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| War memorial on top of Mt.Macedon |
This year, Australian Alps/mountain above 1400m has a lot of snow!
Its not usual, we very rarely see this much snow!
In fact, I haven't seen snow in Australia at all and Koto & Niah never seen snow yet. So it was exciting idea to take them to snow mountain hike! We decided to find some snow near from Melbourne last weekend.
Saturday, We climb to the top of Mt Macedon. Mt Macedon has many roads, tracks and narrow paths for hiking and we've been here quite a lot for day hike.
Its very easy forest mountain and took us just one hour to climb up.
Not much snow but still had a bit on around summit!
It's very popular mountain, so after many people walk on the mountain with snow, foot path was just turned into muddy! so we had very dirty dogs! but they had a great time running around the forest off lead!
今年は珍しくオーストラリアの山でもかなりの積雪量となっています。
こっちに引っ越して来て8年経ちますが雪を見た事はなかったし、なんといっても
琴とニアは雪を見たことがないので、メルボルンの近くの雪山にハイキングに行く事にしました。
土曜はメルボルンから1時間半程の近場、低めの山マウントマセドンへ行ってきました。
頂上までは1時間と優しいハイキングコースです。
近場なので人気のハイキングコースで足場は人が沢山入ったせいかドロドロ。。
琴ニア、今晩はシャンプーですね。。でも人の少ない頂上付近ではオフリードで思いっきり森のなかを走らせる事ができたので二匹とも大満足！
足冷たくないのかなぁ〜。
とにかく楽しそうだったので◎
8/01/2014
Front Cross 90° turn v.s. 180° turn
レッスン3はジャンピングコース
以下に書き出したハンドリングを含むとぉぉぉーっても難しいコース。。
でも練習してみたらようやくタイミングと身体の動かし方が解って来ました。
それにしてもJouni さんのフィードバックはいつも細かい所まで丁寧に説明して貰えて
本当に勉強になる！熱心で完璧主義者のJouniと私の動きが遅くても身体が柔らかくてタイトターンが出来るニアのお陰で 随分このコースは楽しい♥のです
それにしても洗濯物干さえ無ければもう少しマシなコース設営が出来るのですがねぇ。。
どうにかしたいなぁ〜。。
そしてもう一つどうにかしたいのはフロントクロス！今回ヨゥニに詳しいフロントクロスのステップバイステップを指導してもらいました。Classic Aussie style front crossから抜け出して Stylish European front crossが出来る様になるぞぉ。
I need to improve my Front cross! I just received Online class, Lesson3's feedback from Jouni :) His feed back is always great advice with small detailed explanation, always talk about position, timing, tempo, and how to improve what am I currently doing :)
This lesson3, we had
AND super flexible with tight turn dog Niah with decent speed! (Not too speedy!)
They are just perfect to me :)
Wish we don't have that Clothing line in the center!! But well, better than not trying it and we love it:)
I really want to stop doing "Classic Aussie style front cross" with too much steps and spinning, I am mastering this "very efficient/stylish European front cross" with minimal 1-2-3 steps.
Okay! Can't wait to practice Front cross and report back to Jouni!
Feedback comment:
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Obstacle 4-20
Great job with the tandem turn after the weaves. The problem in the beginning - at least for most of us - is once again the timing of the movement. Either you start the movement too early and the dog also comes out too soon or you are late and the dog turns towards you. But you really got it working quickly, very nice!
The first time you are late and since Niah is not yet familiar with the move she turns towards you like she has always done before after the weaves. The second time your timing is better and Niah now turns the right way but there is still some improvement to do so that you will be on time at jump number 10. The third time the tandem turn looks even better but stil you have problems in making it to number 10 or Niah at least does a bit wide turn after the jump. Remember that you should start the tandem turn as Niah enters between the third and the second last weave poles. This when you quickly turn towards her and continue moving back where you came from. Right now you are slowing down or almost stopping before you continue moving so try not to do that and and start running even quicker!
On the third last jump (what would be jump number 18) you turn really early towards Niah and run backwards using only your opposite hand to point the obstacle. Now Niah gets insecure and is almost going for the tunnel (your body actually points towards the tunnel here). Sow instead of running backwards you should again time your movement so that you are moving forward until Niah is committed to the jump. In fact you don´t have to take more than one step backwards when you do the front cross here. Think that you do the front cross using 3 steps. The first step is a step towards the jump (in this case with your left foot). With this step you are sending Niah to the jump and your left hand is guiding her towards it. The second step is s tep backwards parallel to the jump. Here is when you the tempo change to make her collect before the jump. At this point you are also turning your upper body towards the dog. The dog side hand is still guiding the dog but also the opposite hand is turned towards the dog ready to take over. The third step is again a step forward with the left foot towards the next obstacle. At this point you have dropped the left hand the right hand has taken over and guides the dog towards the next jump.
Since Niah mostly has tight turns I think that doing the fcs this way will work good with her and you can avoid the kind of hesitation that you had now at jump number 18. Try it.
Eventually both the fc at jump 18 and the ketschker before the tunnel work really well. But as with the fc you need to be careful not to do the ketschker too early before the tunnel cause this might cause her to turn away from it. On the other hand she will become more familiar with the movement as you do more repetition and you will be able to anticipate the movement more.
Here is my Summery, After reading Jouni's comment
How to improve Front Cross 90° turn:
From Jouni's explanation
(images are from OMD's video to visualize it)
1. The first step is a step towards the jump. With this step you are sending dog to the jump and your right hand is guiding her towards it.
2. The second step is step backwards parallel to the
jump. Here is when you the tempo change to make her collect before the
jump. At this point you are also turning your upper body towards the
dog. The dog side hand is still guiding the dog but also the opposite
hand is turned towards the dog ready to take over.
3. The third step is again a step forward with the Right foot towards the
next obstacle. At this point you have dropped the Right hand the right
hand has taken over and guides the dog towards the next jump.
Push Back Front Cross
180° turn
Jump No.7
Front Cross Feet movement is drawing Triangle shape
Dog leading foot (on this picture left foot) STEP INTO THE JUMP, Direct dog to push back position
Then ONE STEP backward, PARALLEL to jump with other foot
(Larger step than 90° turn to get away from dog's line)
And then, the dog leading foot is now is looking towards to next obstacle direction
Moving towards to next obstacle
以下に書き出したハンドリングを含むとぉぉぉーっても難しいコース。。
でも練習してみたらようやくタイミングと身体の動かし方が解って来ました。
それにしてもJouni さんのフィードバックはいつも細かい所まで丁寧に説明して貰えて
本当に勉強になる！熱心で完璧主義者のJouniと私の動きが遅くても身体が柔らかくてタイトターンが出来るニアのお陰で 随分このコースは楽しい♥のです
それにしても洗濯物干さえ無ければもう少しマシなコース設営が出来るのですがねぇ。。
どうにかしたいなぁ〜。。
そしてもう一つどうにかしたいのはフロントクロス！今回ヨゥニに詳しいフロントクロスのステップバイステップを指導してもらいました。Classic Aussie style front crossから抜け出して Stylish European front crossが出来る様になるぞぉ。
I need to improve my Front cross! I just received Online class, Lesson3's feedback from Jouni :) His feed back is always great advice with small detailed explanation, always talk about position, timing, tempo, and how to improve what am I currently doing :)
This lesson3, we had
- Double Blind Cross
- Tandem turn
- Forced Front Cross
- Ketshker
- Front Cross
AND super flexible with tight turn dog Niah with decent speed! (Not too speedy!)
They are just perfect to me :)
Wish we don't have that Clothing line in the center!! But well, better than not trying it and we love it:)
I really want to stop doing "Classic Aussie style front cross" with too much steps and spinning, I am mastering this "very efficient/stylish European front cross" with minimal 1-2-3 steps.
Okay! Can't wait to practice Front cross and report back to Jouni!
Feedback comment:
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Obstacles
1-5
There is really no time difference between the two options here and this is good. Some dogs have better speed when doing alot of blind crosses but Niah has good speed no matter the option so you can just choose the one that feels best.
The timing is tricky with the blind crosses. The first time your second cross is too early and you can see how quickly Niah reacts to that and takes jump number 3 form the wrong side. The second time you are starting to find the timing but you kind of forget to keep on moving towards the next jump. It tells alot of your own timing when you look at Niah´s route from number 3 to jump number 4. There´s still a litlle hesitation between the jumps when you do the blind crosses for the third time but the fourth and last time your crosses are very well timed and Niah has good speed throughout the sequence. You also have enough distance to easily handle jump number 4 where you had some troubles before. One more thing is your own movement which is really good as well - you are really running fast yourself cause you no longer have to focus so hard on the blind crosses as they start to come more naturally. Very nice work
There is really no time difference between the two options here and this is good. Some dogs have better speed when doing alot of blind crosses but Niah has good speed no matter the option so you can just choose the one that feels best.
The timing is tricky with the blind crosses. The first time your second cross is too early and you can see how quickly Niah reacts to that and takes jump number 3 form the wrong side. The second time you are starting to find the timing but you kind of forget to keep on moving towards the next jump. It tells alot of your own timing when you look at Niah´s route from number 3 to jump number 4. There´s still a litlle hesitation between the jumps when you do the blind crosses for the third time but the fourth and last time your crosses are very well timed and Niah has good speed throughout the sequence. You also have enough distance to easily handle jump number 4 where you had some troubles before. One more thing is your own movement which is really good as well - you are really running fast yourself cause you no longer have to focus so hard on the blind crosses as they start to come more naturally. Very nice work
Obstacle 4-20
Great job with the tandem turn after the weaves. The problem in the beginning - at least for most of us - is once again the timing of the movement. Either you start the movement too early and the dog also comes out too soon or you are late and the dog turns towards you. But you really got it working quickly, very nice!
The first time you are late and since Niah is not yet familiar with the move she turns towards you like she has always done before after the weaves. The second time your timing is better and Niah now turns the right way but there is still some improvement to do so that you will be on time at jump number 10. The third time the tandem turn looks even better but stil you have problems in making it to number 10 or Niah at least does a bit wide turn after the jump. Remember that you should start the tandem turn as Niah enters between the third and the second last weave poles. This when you quickly turn towards her and continue moving back where you came from. Right now you are slowing down or almost stopping before you continue moving so try not to do that and and start running even quicker!
On the third last jump (what would be jump number 18) you turn really early towards Niah and run backwards using only your opposite hand to point the obstacle. Now Niah gets insecure and is almost going for the tunnel (your body actually points towards the tunnel here). Sow instead of running backwards you should again time your movement so that you are moving forward until Niah is committed to the jump. In fact you don´t have to take more than one step backwards when you do the front cross here. Think that you do the front cross using 3 steps. The first step is a step towards the jump (in this case with your left foot). With this step you are sending Niah to the jump and your left hand is guiding her towards it. The second step is s tep backwards parallel to the jump. Here is when you the tempo change to make her collect before the jump. At this point you are also turning your upper body towards the dog. The dog side hand is still guiding the dog but also the opposite hand is turned towards the dog ready to take over. The third step is again a step forward with the left foot towards the next obstacle. At this point you have dropped the left hand the right hand has taken over and guides the dog towards the next jump.
Since Niah mostly has tight turns I think that doing the fcs this way will work good with her and you can avoid the kind of hesitation that you had now at jump number 18. Try it.
Eventually both the fc at jump 18 and the ketschker before the tunnel work really well. But as with the fc you need to be careful not to do the ketschker too early before the tunnel cause this might cause her to turn away from it. On the other hand she will become more familiar with the movement as you do more repetition and you will be able to anticipate the movement more.
Here is my Summery, After reading Jouni's comment
How to improve Front Cross 90° turn:
From Jouni's explanation
(images are from OMD's video to visualize it)
Push Back Front Cross
180° turn
Jump No.7
Front Cross Feet movement is drawing Triangle shape
(Larger step than 90° turn to get away from dog's line)
7/31/2014
Running Contact update
We haven't done much RC training, since our backyard was very wet,
but we had beautiful winter sunny days for a week, so yay for back in training!
Koto:
I've been a little frustrated that we have been only working on "Get that contact game" and starting point from "No-Speed (Sit start)", Thought about putting the height down.. but
decided to not to. Just gradually add entry distance every time with "100% prevention of leaping(static toy for this week)
So we are trying now running with Speed and working on her separation!
She still control her speed so much on Down lamp and loose separation sometimes,
Which is good thing for her! she needs to learn that... since she can be an amazing
flying leaping dog!!
I will start "tunnel start, then finish with Jump" this weekend!
ひさしぶりにランニングコンタクトのトレーニングをしています。
先月のトライアルでニア君 コンタクトをミスしてしまったのに
あれからトレーニンングしていませんでした。。
というのも庭がどろどろでトレーニングできる状態じゃなかったのですが、
ここ1週間程冬のあたたかくて、いい天気の毎日が続いています！
琴ちゃん、徐々にスピードをつけてフルハイトを走らせていますが
今の所絶好調。
やはりスタティックトーイ（”投げないボール”）だとダウンランプの前で
スビード調整しすぎて後ろ足が開かなくなってしまいますが、
このスピード調整も大切なスキルの一つ。
でも後ろ足を開かせるのはもっと大切なので次回はボールを投げてみます。
Niah: Missed 2 contacts from last trail, but I haven't practice since then.
So we've done short refresh training with exit handling practice.
He was doing great, just myself- need to practice timing!
And the most difficult thing for him is new environment and new dog walk.
Always important to make sure he RUN on Dogwalk.
So far, he just LOVEs RC training in our backyard :) so cute!
ニアはコンタクトの前で飛んだりはしないし、信頼できるのですが、
やはり入り口、出口の障害も関係してくるし、何と言っても
高所恐怖症、ビビリんぼのニアには慣れない環境とドッグウォークが一番難しいみたい。
継続して練習するのみですね。
そして何と言っても私のハンドリングの練習！も大切。
なんといってもニアは庭でのランニングのトレーニングが大大好き！
可愛いです。
but we had beautiful winter sunny days for a week, so yay for back in training!
Koto:
I've been a little frustrated that we have been only working on "Get that contact game" and starting point from "No-Speed (Sit start)", Thought about putting the height down.. but
decided to not to. Just gradually add entry distance every time with "100% prevention of leaping(static toy for this week)
So we are trying now running with Speed and working on her separation!
She still control her speed so much on Down lamp and loose separation sometimes,
Which is good thing for her! she needs to learn that... since she can be an amazing
flying leaping dog!!
I will start "tunnel start, then finish with Jump" this weekend!
ひさしぶりにランニングコンタクトのトレーニングをしています。
先月のトライアルでニア君 コンタクトをミスしてしまったのに
あれからトレーニンングしていませんでした。。
というのも庭がどろどろでトレーニングできる状態じゃなかったのですが、
ここ1週間程冬のあたたかくて、いい天気の毎日が続いています！
琴ちゃん、徐々にスピードをつけてフルハイトを走らせていますが
今の所絶好調。
やはりスタティックトーイ（”投げないボール”）だとダウンランプの前で
スビード調整しすぎて後ろ足が開かなくなってしまいますが、
このスピード調整も大切なスキルの一つ。
でも後ろ足を開かせるのはもっと大切なので次回はボールを投げてみます。
Niah: Missed 2 contacts from last trail, but I haven't practice since then.
So we've done short refresh training with exit handling practice.
He was doing great, just myself- need to practice timing!
And the most difficult thing for him is new environment and new dog walk.
Always important to make sure he RUN on Dogwalk.
So far, he just LOVEs RC training in our backyard :) so cute!
ニアはコンタクトの前で飛んだりはしないし、信頼できるのですが、
やはり入り口、出口の障害も関係してくるし、何と言っても
高所恐怖症、ビビリんぼのニアには慣れない環境とドッグウォークが一番難しいみたい。
継続して練習するのみですね。
そして何と言っても私のハンドリングの練習！も大切。
なんといってもニアは庭でのランニングのトレーニングが大大好き！
可愛いです。
7/29/2014
Agility night with new wings!
It was GREAT night wathcing EO final on live streaming yesterday!
My favorite handlers, Silvia & Le, Jenny Damm & Lilli and Tobias and Peanuts win! It was great competition and everyone who was competing in the final ring, it was so great to watch!!
Especially Silvia, Jenny and Lisa, They are truly the world champions!
Lisa and Jenny's handling was just incredible! tightest, and neatest dogs line, faultless handling with Lilli's speed and Running contact! It was great to wactch :)
and it was so happy to hear that Hoss is back in old condition!
Silvia was also amazing, Le had some little lost moment on the most tricky jump but she was 2 second faster than 2nd place! Indeed flying Midget!!
Very exciting and wonderful to watch all the top world agility handlers competing in extremely challenging courses.
I can't wait for World Championship in September.
I think it will be very interesting in this year.
And Woo hoo! Our agility club just got 15 new wing jumps from UK.
They looks very good and so much easier to handle properly!
We can finally coming close to world standard Equipments :)
Now, we seriously needs better courses, and improved rules.
Hopefully international judges will start coming to Australia for Seminar someday.
Or we might needs to invited international judges to judge the nationals in the future!
My favorite handlers, Silvia & Le, Jenny Damm & Lilli and Tobias and Peanuts win! It was great competition and everyone who was competing in the final ring, it was so great to watch!!
Especially Silvia, Jenny and Lisa, They are truly the world champions!
Lisa and Jenny's handling was just incredible! tightest, and neatest dogs line, faultless handling with Lilli's speed and Running contact! It was great to wactch :)
and it was so happy to hear that Hoss is back in old condition!
Silvia was also amazing, Le had some little lost moment on the most tricky jump but she was 2 second faster than 2nd place! Indeed flying Midget!!
Very exciting and wonderful to watch all the top world agility handlers competing in extremely challenging courses.
I can't wait for World Championship in September.
I think it will be very interesting in this year.
And Woo hoo! Our agility club just got 15 new wing jumps from UK.
They looks very good and so much easier to handle properly!
We can finally coming close to world standard Equipments :)
Now, we seriously needs better courses, and improved rules.
Hopefully international judges will start coming to Australia for Seminar someday.
Or we might needs to invited international judges to judge the nationals in the future!
7/17/2014
Niah Bendigo Master Jumping
先週末はベンディゴというメルボルンから2時間離れた田舎町でアジリティトライアルがありました。最近は雨ばかりだったのですが、久しぶりにいい天気の週末。
そして珍しくニア君、1席を2つもゲット！今回で2回目のマスタージャンピングとオープンジャンピング。でも一席になれたコースはビデオでも解ると思いますがむちゃくちゃ簡単なボーナスコースでした（笑）大きなピンウィールと小さなピンウィール、それにトンネルエントリーくらい？はは。もっと難しくてチャレンジなコースもあったのですが、そっちは小さなミスでDQとなりました。それでも両方ともいつもよりも数が少なかったのですが、いつも上位を争うスピーディな犬を含めて60頭以上の犬が走っていたので1席は嬉しいですね。
アジリティも3コース走ったのですが、なんとコンタクトを2回もミスってしまいました。。最後のコースはコンタクトも含めて凄く良かったけど 最初のタイアーにあたってしまったみたい。。もう少しエクセレントアジリティで頑張ります。。
Last weekend was agility trial at Bendigo,
Bendigo is medium size country town where takes about 2 hours drive from Melbourne.
It tuned out sunny and beautiful 2 days and we had a luck of winning 2 rings at Master Jumping and Open Jumping. Both very first pass! Master Jumping that we won was pretty easy with large and small pin wheels and tunnel discrimination only.. but still happy to achieve first place :) because it was only second time competing in Masters!
Open was also easy. but somehow general luck of passes across the whole weekend. Not many people did pass those easy courses. Sun? Ground? not sure. but at least we were on the lucky side!
We also run Agility 3 times but Niah missed Contact 2 times :(
The very last run was beautiful, but he break the very first tunnel :(
No pass for Excellent Agility, but somehow achieved 2nd and 3rd place! so we have 4 medals~
そして琴ちゃんはウチでディーンの面倒を見てくれていました！
琴の足もすっかり回復しているので次のトライアルはジャンピングで出してみようかと思っています。And Koto has been so good at home, looking after Dean :)
We think she will be ready to start competition in a month time!!
Running contact is not finished.. so she will start with Jumping.
そして珍しくニア君、1席を2つもゲット！今回で2回目のマスタージャンピングとオープンジャンピング。でも一席になれたコースはビデオでも解ると思いますがむちゃくちゃ簡単なボーナスコースでした（笑）大きなピンウィールと小さなピンウィール、それにトンネルエントリーくらい？はは。もっと難しくてチャレンジなコースもあったのですが、そっちは小さなミスでDQとなりました。それでも両方ともいつもよりも数が少なかったのですが、いつも上位を争うスピーディな犬を含めて60頭以上の犬が走っていたので1席は嬉しいですね。
アジリティも3コース走ったのですが、なんとコンタクトを2回もミスってしまいました。。最後のコースはコンタクトも含めて凄く良かったけど 最初のタイアーにあたってしまったみたい。。もう少しエクセレントアジリティで頑張ります。。
Last weekend was agility trial at Bendigo,
Bendigo is medium size country town where takes about 2 hours drive from Melbourne.
It tuned out sunny and beautiful 2 days and we had a luck of winning 2 rings at Master Jumping and Open Jumping. Both very first pass! Master Jumping that we won was pretty easy with large and small pin wheels and tunnel discrimination only.. but still happy to achieve first place :) because it was only second time competing in Masters!
Open was also easy. but somehow general luck of passes across the whole weekend. Not many people did pass those easy courses. Sun? Ground? not sure. but at least we were on the lucky side!
We also run Agility 3 times but Niah missed Contact 2 times :(
The very last run was beautiful, but he break the very first tunnel :(
No pass for Excellent Agility, but somehow achieved 2nd and 3rd place! so we have 4 medals~
琴の足もすっかり回復しているので次のトライアルはジャンピングで出してみようかと思っています。And Koto has been so good at home, looking after Dean :)
We think she will be ready to start competition in a month time!!
Running contact is not finished.. so she will start with Jumping.
7/10/2014
On Training! O/E Course2 - 1st Try
練習中！！
We are on training!!
I'm learning Revit Architecture now and also new movements of agility handling.
2nd course from o/e training was also very difficult one, but challenging.
Still struggle with Ketschker turn's timing.. and also struggle with sending Niah to Tunnel next to DW entry! It's because he has done Running contact training from tunnel on this route.. so it was very difficult to use verval cue for going to tunnel..
But!! we've got very helpful an nice comment from Joune :)
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Revit Architectureのオンライントレーニングをしたり、、
アジの新しい動きを練習したり。
時間がありそうでないこの頃 ：）
o/eのコース2も難しい！得に一度ドッグウォークに送った後でのドッグウォークのとなりのトンネルに送るのが、一番難しかったかも。。あとやっぱりKetschker!!!
未だにタイミングが合いません。。
でもとっても良いコメント貰えましたよ！
コメはこちら↓
Thank you for
your video! Very nice training again.
Niah makes a very nice turn at jump number 3. You have nice timing when you do the pole turn and you get good speed after the turn. However the second option is faster for you - 0,4 seconds between obstacles 1 and 6 which is quite alot. Eventhough Niah has very tight turns she still wins time by taking the shorter route. This is just something you have to practice and time the different options to find the fastest route. Very nice rear cross at jump number 5 - you use your own tempo and upperbody clearly to anticipate the path towards the tunnel and Niah remains high speed. Well done!
Both options after the weaves work very well and your handling is faultless. This time there is no significant time difference either.
The first time you are sending Niah to the tunnel under the dog walk you are slowing down and your body is already pointing away from the tunnel. When sending the dog away from you it is critical that you have movement so that the dog will drive away from you all the way to the tunnel and past the dw. The other thing is naturally the direction of your movement or your upper body. So try timing your own movement so that when Niah exits the tunnel your are still moving fast towards the tunnel under the dw. On the other hand you probably need to practise some tunnel entries and reinforce the tunnel command so that Niah will take the tunnel by command even when you can not be there helping her with your body signals. In these cases the vocals need to "override" your body signals.
Still some difficulties with the timing of ketschker turn at jump number 19. Here you probably don´t even need to do the ketschker since the turn isn´t that tight and there is no trap obstacle behind the jump. You are also moving very straight which makes the ketschker more difficult. The more you change your own direction the more natural the movement. But still it is good for you to practise the movement and the timing in different situations.
In the last option you have a very nice send to the tunnel and the rear cross works well again. What you can do is try to pull her a bit more towards you before releasing her to the jump (number 19 rear cross) to give her even better angle to the last jumps. So pull her more towards yourself as she exits the tunnel and then turn towards the jump for a better angle.
Keep on training those ketschkers! Have a nice training!
Niah makes a very nice turn at jump number 3. You have nice timing when you do the pole turn and you get good speed after the turn. However the second option is faster for you - 0,4 seconds between obstacles 1 and 6 which is quite alot. Eventhough Niah has very tight turns she still wins time by taking the shorter route. This is just something you have to practice and time the different options to find the fastest route. Very nice rear cross at jump number 5 - you use your own tempo and upperbody clearly to anticipate the path towards the tunnel and Niah remains high speed. Well done!
Both options after the weaves work very well and your handling is faultless. This time there is no significant time difference either.
The first time you are sending Niah to the tunnel under the dog walk you are slowing down and your body is already pointing away from the tunnel. When sending the dog away from you it is critical that you have movement so that the dog will drive away from you all the way to the tunnel and past the dw. The other thing is naturally the direction of your movement or your upper body. So try timing your own movement so that when Niah exits the tunnel your are still moving fast towards the tunnel under the dw. On the other hand you probably need to practise some tunnel entries and reinforce the tunnel command so that Niah will take the tunnel by command even when you can not be there helping her with your body signals. In these cases the vocals need to "override" your body signals.
Still some difficulties with the timing of ketschker turn at jump number 19. Here you probably don´t even need to do the ketschker since the turn isn´t that tight and there is no trap obstacle behind the jump. You are also moving very straight which makes the ketschker more difficult. The more you change your own direction the more natural the movement. But still it is good for you to practise the movement and the timing in different situations.
In the last option you have a very nice send to the tunnel and the rear cross works well again. What you can do is try to pull her a bit more towards you before releasing her to the jump (number 19 rear cross) to give her even better angle to the last jumps. So pull her more towards yourself as she exits the tunnel and then turn towards the jump for a better angle.
Keep on training those ketschkers! Have a nice training!
7/06/2014
OE lesson Course1-Re-Try
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Here is our Re-try on 1st course from Jouni and Isabelle's online course.
I thought the end part was much better and we improved a little bit of Keschker timing :)
But still not moving naturally, and very difficult to get correct, perfect timing and position, and most biggest issue is I don't know where to use it :P
But we have to work on Keschker timing@@
I totally misjudge the position of Keschker before the DW, so it was physically impossible to get to the jump after the DW to do Forced Front Cross...
Such a inspiring practice! I think I know I have to position myself much far away from the jump. I don't think we will see these complicated course in Australia, but I really like challenges, that another countries agility society is facing.
It's a shame all the course doesn't fit and I can't practice entire course!!
雨が多くて全然アジが出来ていないのですが、ヨウニからコメントを貰った後、もう一度
コース1をリトライしてみました。リトライに対するコメントは英語ですが下にコピペしています。。
まだKeschkerのタイミングがあいません。動きも不自然で、
私がやると。意味ない所で”くるるーん！？” ただ無意味にスピンしてる様に見えるのです。まず第一にスピンしてるポジションが悪い様子。だから次の障害に間に合わなくなってますね〜。得にドッグウォークの前のジャンプはジャンプの近くへ行き過ぎてるのでランニングの後のForcedFront Crossには全然間に合わない状態が続く。。。
でもヨウニ曰く最初に比べたら少し進歩にしたみたい：）最後のエンディングのPushBack Keschkerはオッケー！
本当はもっと自立していつでも猛スピードで走ってもらうことが夢だけど、、
ニアは私がしっかりはしっていないとゆっくり走り、私が少しでも前に居ると猛スピードで走るので私のポジションがとても解りやすいです。。
ニアには本当によくハンドラー教育してもらってます：）
バーノック対策でボールやディスクをつかった筋トレ運動を去年から始めて、
共にバーは600を飛ばせてます、最近落ちたバーを拾いに行く事が減って来た事を実感！！随分いい感じ♥ 来週は久しぶりのトライアル、、
あと1つExcellent Agilityのクリアが貰えればマスターコースに昇進！行けるかな〜！
Here is our Re-try on 1st course from Jouni and Isabelle's online course.
I thought the end part was much better and we improved a little bit of Keschker timing :)
But still not moving naturally, and very difficult to get correct, perfect timing and position, and most biggest issue is I don't know where to use it :P
But we have to work on Keschker timing@@
I totally misjudge the position of Keschker before the DW, so it was physically impossible to get to the jump after the DW to do Forced Front Cross...
Such a inspiring practice! I think I know I have to position myself much far away from the jump. I don't think we will see these complicated course in Australia, but I really like challenges, that another countries agility society is facing.
It's a shame all the course doesn't fit and I can't practice entire course!!
雨が多くて全然アジが出来ていないのですが、ヨウニからコメントを貰った後、もう一度
コース1をリトライしてみました。リトライに対するコメントは英語ですが下にコピペしています。。
まだKeschkerのタイミングがあいません。動きも不自然で、
私がやると。意味ない所で”くるるーん！？” ただ無意味にスピンしてる様に見えるのです。まず第一にスピンしてるポジションが悪い様子。だから次の障害に間に合わなくなってますね〜。得にドッグウォークの前のジャンプはジャンプの近くへ行き過ぎてるのでランニングの後のForcedFront Crossには全然間に合わない状態が続く。。。
でもヨウニ曰く最初に比べたら少し進歩にしたみたい：）最後のエンディングのPushBack Keschkerはオッケー！
本当はもっと自立していつでも猛スピードで走ってもらうことが夢だけど、、
ニアは私がしっかりはしっていないとゆっくり走り、私が少しでも前に居ると猛スピードで走るので私のポジションがとても解りやすいです。。
ニアには本当によくハンドラー教育してもらってます：）
バーノック対策でボールやディスクをつかった筋トレ運動を去年から始めて、
共にバーは600を飛ばせてます、最近落ちたバーを拾いに行く事が減って来た事を実感！！随分いい感じ♥ 来週は久しぶりのトライアル、、
あと1つExcellent Agilityのクリアが貰えればマスターコースに昇進！行けるかな〜！
Jouni said: Very nice start again. Good job! Yes I agree - number 5 is much better
now and I think your timing at jump number 7 is also good but you are standing
very close to the jump. Try to keep a little bit distance so that while the dog
is running towards the jump you start running towards the next obstacle. The
push & pull at jump number 8 is great but again you could try to stay even
more ahead of the dog to make it easier to be on time at the next obstacles.
You can see the importance of your timing and own position when doing the ketschker turn when you arrive late to jump number 16 to do the forced front cross: again the ketschker at jump number 14. Don´t go so close to the jump but send the dog and leave earlier!!!
Both options work really nice at in the end of the course and there is really no difference in time between these two options.
Well done! Keep on working with your timing when doing the ketschker turns and try not go so close to the jumps to win even more time!
You can see the importance of your timing and own position when doing the ketschker turn when you arrive late to jump number 16 to do the forced front cross: again the ketschker at jump number 14. Don´t go so close to the jump but send the dog and leave earlier!!!
Both options work really nice at in the end of the course and there is really no difference in time between these two options.
Well done! Keep on working with your timing when doing the ketschker turns and try not go so close to the jumps to win even more time!
6/30/2014
Swedish agility
Orenius/Emanuelssonのイザベルのお母さん
Asa Emanuelssonさんのビデオ...
すごーい＠＠
イザベルはこんなママの基で生まれ育って幸せだな〜
旦那様とお母さん と一緒に競技できるなんてほんと いい環境♥
wow~~ just wow!
amazing video is from
Asa Emanuelsson, tight turn agility... so amazing to watch!
Asa Emanuelssonさんのビデオ...
すごーい＠＠
イザベルはこんなママの基で生まれ育って幸せだな〜
旦那様とお母さん と一緒に競技できるなんてほんと いい環境♥
wow~~ just wow!
amazing video is from
Asa Emanuelsson, tight turn agility... so amazing to watch!
6/26/2014
Winter Solstice Beach
The shortest day in the year is just finished.
We are getting into the most coldest, and wet winter season
but the day will get longer from now on.
We enjoyed our shortest day at the beach for two days in low!
We missed coming to the beach :)
先週の日曜日は冬至でした。
一年で日が一番短い日。
そしてこれから2−3ヶ月は一年で一番寒くて雨の多い真冬に入ります。
でも日は少しずつ長くなります。
そんなを冬至の週末、久しぶりに天気が良かったので
2日間つづけてビーチで散歩をして過ごしました。
久しぶりにきたビーチは意外とにぎやか。
泳いでる人までいました（笑）
私達は夕やけの時間まで10キロくらい歩きました！
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