NATCH Stewie with Judge Sarah Fix at Act Up Agility trial, September 24, 2011!!
Showing posts with label Addicted to agility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Addicted to agility. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Introducing...NATCH Stewie!
Stewie is now NATCH Stewie. He finished his Championship on Saturday, September 24 with a beautiful and fast Chances Q. Sarah Fix was the judge and the club was Act Up Agility, in North Smithfield, RI.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Stewie earns his Superior Elite Regular Title!
Stewie earned his S-EAC title on New Years Day 2011 with a 1st place Q! This was at Addicted to Agility's trial at N. Smithfield RI with judge Roger Coor. It was an awesome run with great weave poles with a time of 37.72. The 2nd regular run that day was the same course turned around, and Stewie had another blazing fast with with great poles, and beat his own time by 3 seconds with a time of 34.73!
You need to have 40 Elite Regular Q's to earn the Superior title. Great job Stewie!
According to my records, Stewie has gotten 7 Regular Q's since August 1, 2010 toward Championshops 2011!
You need to have 40 Elite Regular Q's to earn the Superior title. Great job Stewie!
According to my records, Stewie has gotten 7 Regular Q's since August 1, 2010 toward Championshops 2011!
Friday, December 17, 2010
New Years NADAC Trial coming up!
Stewie and I are going to Addicted to Agility's New Year's trial in Smithfield RI. We can't wait, haven't trialed since October! Mary and Lexi are coming too and some new NEAT club members are coming for their first trial, awesome!!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Elite Tunnelers 9-25-10
Addicted to Agility, Wrentham, MA
Last run of the day Saturday, hot day, and Stewie really turned it on,and had a great run in 25 seconds flat!
Last run of the day Saturday, hot day, and Stewie really turned it on,and had a great run in 25 seconds flat!
Elite Jumpers 9-25-10
Addicted to Agility Elite Jumpers 9/25/10 First run of the day, and Stewie did an awesome job.Q and a 1st place.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Saturday May 1 Addicted to Agility
Stewie and I had a great trial in RI under judge Ron Young. The first run of the day was Regular, it had a fast start and Stewie was revved, and I lost him to an off course tunnel at the 4th obstacle. Of course after that, he went on to get great weaves and had a fast finish off the dog walk.
The next run was Chances, and I lost him to the same off course tunnel, and then did the rest of Chances great. No Elite dog Q'ed in Chances, and only one Open dog Q'ed. Tough course.
Next was Touch and Go, and it looked different than any other Touch and Go course I have seen. There was a lot of handling in the beginning on the right side of the ring, and then after that, there was 2 tunnels and a hoop curving to the dog walk. It was the fastest course I have ever seen. Stewie got his dog walk contact, good boy! and boy was he flying. His time was 6.83 yards per second which I think is his fastest speed ever! This was a Q and a 1st place!
Next was Tunnelers, and we tried the 15 point bonus line. We only had one bobble, and the rest of the distance and directionals were no problem. At the end the judge said good try, which I thought meant I hadn't Q'ed, but I checked the next day, and we had Q'ed with a 3rd place, we just did not get the bonus.
The last run of the day was Jumpers, and it was a different looking course too! There were 23 obstacles, and a 4 jump serpentine that you did each day. At the far end of the ring was a series of 4 jumps which you did twice, both times I layered them with the 4 jump serpentine. There was no problem or hesitation with layering the lines of jumps. This was a really great run, no bobbles, and it was a 1st and a Q.
The next run was Chances, and I lost him to the same off course tunnel, and then did the rest of Chances great. No Elite dog Q'ed in Chances, and only one Open dog Q'ed. Tough course.
Next was Touch and Go, and it looked different than any other Touch and Go course I have seen. There was a lot of handling in the beginning on the right side of the ring, and then after that, there was 2 tunnels and a hoop curving to the dog walk. It was the fastest course I have ever seen. Stewie got his dog walk contact, good boy! and boy was he flying. His time was 6.83 yards per second which I think is his fastest speed ever! This was a Q and a 1st place!
Next was Tunnelers, and we tried the 15 point bonus line. We only had one bobble, and the rest of the distance and directionals were no problem. At the end the judge said good try, which I thought meant I hadn't Q'ed, but I checked the next day, and we had Q'ed with a 3rd place, we just did not get the bonus.
The last run of the day was Jumpers, and it was a different looking course too! There were 23 obstacles, and a 4 jump serpentine that you did each day. At the far end of the ring was a series of 4 jumps which you did twice, both times I layered them with the 4 jump serpentine. There was no problem or hesitation with layering the lines of jumps. This was a really great run, no bobbles, and it was a 1st and a Q.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Rhode Island bound!
Stewie and I are headed to RI tomorrow for an Addicted to Agility trial. Chances here we come!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Act-Up NADAC trial update-Saturday
Saturday was a beautiful sunny April day for agility. The trial started with Touch and Go, and Stewie got a really fast run in with a Q and a 1st place. YPS 5.97
Jumpers was next, I decided to really practice our distance, and we had a great run, with a Q and a 2nd place. 5.58 YPS
Regular, there was a line of jumps parallel to the dogwalk, the course was the dogwalk to a turn to a jump, then the weaves. I sent Stewie to the dogwalk, layered the line of jumps, and also layered the weaves with no problem. Unfortunately coming back around the course, Stewie took an off course, but I was very pleased with the distance work.
The 2nd Regular run, Stewie blasted by the weaves, and we had another off-course, a disconnected run.
Next class was Chances. Stewie did the distance portion no problem, and then blew by the set of six weave poles at the end. What a disappointment! First not to get the Q, and second that our weaving in trials problem is coming back.
Last run was Tunnelers, and I worked distance some more, and I didn't get a signal in soon enough, and we had an off course.
Overall, a great day, Lynn is absolutely right, working the distance in all runs will help us with our Chances skills.
Jumpers was next, I decided to really practice our distance, and we had a great run, with a Q and a 2nd place. 5.58 YPS
Regular, there was a line of jumps parallel to the dogwalk, the course was the dogwalk to a turn to a jump, then the weaves. I sent Stewie to the dogwalk, layered the line of jumps, and also layered the weaves with no problem. Unfortunately coming back around the course, Stewie took an off course, but I was very pleased with the distance work.
The 2nd Regular run, Stewie blasted by the weaves, and we had another off-course, a disconnected run.
Next class was Chances. Stewie did the distance portion no problem, and then blew by the set of six weave poles at the end. What a disappointment! First not to get the Q, and second that our weaving in trials problem is coming back.
Last run was Tunnelers, and I worked distance some more, and I didn't get a signal in soon enough, and we had an off course.
Overall, a great day, Lynn is absolutely right, working the distance in all runs will help us with our Chances skills.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Act Up Agility Trial Elite Jumpers Video
Here is the video from Saturday's Elite Jumpers run. It was a Q and a 2nd place. Thanks to Gina for filming.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Sunday at Addicted to Agility Trial
Stewie started off Sunday with a spectacular jumpers run with a 1st and a Q. During Regular, he broke his start line stay and took the tunnel instead of the dogwalk. I should have taken him off, but didn't. Touch and Go we did an off course.but he had good, fast contacts.
During Chances Stewie did the distance part easily, but I didn't call him in in time, and he went over the line. I entered Stewie in Weavers for the first time in a year, and he smoked it and got a Q and a 2nd place, coming in 8 seconds under time. We finished the day with a great Tunnelers run! Stewie and I both liked the new venue and my knees in particular loved the turf.
During Chances Stewie did the distance part easily, but I didn't call him in in time, and he went over the line. I entered Stewie in Weavers for the first time in a year, and he smoked it and got a Q and a 2nd place, coming in 8 seconds under time. We finished the day with a great Tunnelers run! Stewie and I both liked the new venue and my knees in particular loved the turf.
Addicted to Agility's new venue
Stewie made it to Addicted to Agility's RI trial, no thanks to the wind storm!
Stewie and I made it to Addicted to Agility's first trial in Smithfield RI at the Wide World of Indoor Sports last on Saturday because of the wind storm and power outage. We made it just in time to walk Tunnelers, and we had a pretty good run and got a Q. Thanks to Jules for taking the video!
The last run of the day was Elite Jumpers, and we had a really awesome run. It was fast and fun! Stewie got a 1st place and a Q.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Chances Success Sunday
Chances was the 1st class of the day again and we ran right away so I didn't get much chance to get nervous, that was probably a good thing. This Chances course was doable also! Stewie did a flawless job and also got the out at the end which was 2 tunnels right next to each other. Luckily I got there in time to push him out. It was a great run and we got to check another Chances Q off of our score sheet. We are down to 8 more to go!
Mary and Lexi got Chances Q's both days, that was awesome! Lexi has six more Chances to go to get her NATCH.
Mary and Lexi got Chances Q's both days, that was awesome! Lexi has six more Chances to go to get her NATCH.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
NADAC in Wrentham MA this weekend
Mary, Lexi, Stewie and I are headed to Addicted to Agility's Wrentham trial tomorrow. It starts with tunnelers fun runs on Friday afternoon. Chances is the 1st class each day and Stewie is about the 8th dog to run Saturday morning. Keep your fingers crossed!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sat NADAC Courses Stowe Vt
Here is Tunnelers, it was a fun course, Stewie went wide a couple of places, so we got a 2nd and a Q.
This is Saturday's Elite Touch and Go course. Stewie did a fabulous job and got a Q and a 1st place.
Here is the Chances course from Sat at the NADAC trial in Stowe, Vt. Stewie had a great start but after #9 went on the the tunnel, instead of coming in to the #10 jump. My fault, I was afraid to call him in too far. But we are getting closer to success!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Chances, so close, yet so far!
This Chances course looked challenging and it was. The first challenge was to keep Stewie from going off course after #2 to the off course off end of tunnel #9. He was a good boy and turned out of the tunnel and did 3-7, and I thought we were going to make it but he turned in to me after jump 7, and if the dog turns in to you, he sees a line to #3 and then the A-frame. And that is what he did. But I was very proud of him that we got that far along in this tough course.Afterward Erin gave me some good advise which was that once I got him out to jump 6, I should have said "go tunnel" instead of just go jump, it would have given him more information and maybe kept him out on that line of jumps.
I never thought of it for that spot but I will keep it in my memory bank for next time!
More Sunday's classes
This is the first regular course on Sunday. I decided to handle the serpentine 4-6 from behind, and after 6, just send him to the poles. He got the entry and weaved very well. We made the tunnel/A frame discrimination and then went off course afterward, bummer.
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