I have so much to say about this past weekend, I don't even have a clue where to start. Seriously.
I had to make an itemized list to share with bloggerdom.
We'll start with the "what".
For those that don't know, this past weekend Da Boys and I ran in our first AKC trial since July of last year.
Yes, July!
It was spectacular.
I've started walking courses accompanied by some fabulous people Joan Jett, Adele, Lenny Kravitz, The Beatles, Bruno Mars and the such. It single handily improved my mental game. Music is food for the soul and mine has obviously been starving for a while, while walking courses.
Da Vipe is starting to give me even more speed (HaPpY DaNce) I was late cuing several turns/transitions with him because he was already THERE. It ate up some seconds here and there around the courses but his confidence this past weekend grew in leaps and bounds. I could probably go on for pages about all of the little improvements that made this weekend so awesome. A recap (including video, I might add) has been included farther down in this post if you want to skip my ramblings.
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| Always the rebel with a cause... |
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| There's my handsome man. OA Title included! |
Blade was well, the Bee's Knees. I'm supporting him more verbally and the boy is so excited about it he can't stop squeaking. Sort of. If you take a look at the videos it's blatantly obvious that Blade had a tough time on the mats. There were a lot of extra strides from him and we just focused on running OUR best course every run and he improved dramatically from Friday to Sunday.
Some Qs were lost because of his Aframe but I won't beat myself down over it. It's our Achilles Heel right now and instead of being upset by it we are calculating our next few moves to not only fix it but defeat it for good. After watching our videos I realized that Blade is becoming quite the loudmouth before and after our runs. Never thought I would see (or hear) the day!
Some Qs were lost because of his Aframe but I won't beat myself down over it. It's our Achilles Heel right now and instead of being upset by it we are calculating our next few moves to not only fix it but defeat it for good. After watching our videos I realized that Blade is becoming quite the loudmouth before and after our runs. Never thought I would see (or hear) the day!
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| Besties be rockin' the bling. |
I promised recap and video from the weekend so here they are:
Video from Friday
Video from Friday
Recap from Friday
Blade:
T2B NQ/1st Place (Missed Aframe contact)
Master Standard Q/1st, 17 points towards 2014 AKC Nationals
Master JWW NQ/1st, dropped my shoulder as if I was indicating a blind, pulled B off of the jump
Viper:
T2B Q/4th Place for 7 more points
Open Standard Q/1st for his OA Title (on to Excellent!)
Master JWW Q/3rd Place, first Q towards 2014 Nationals! Yay!
Video from Saturday
Recap from Saturday
Blade:
T2B NQ/2nd Place (Missed Aframe contact)
Master Standard NQ/2nd Place, guess what? His Aframe got called again.
Master JWW NQ/2nd Place, slipped through the first weave pole.
Viper:
T2B NQ, tunnel got the best of us.
Excellent Standard NQ, lack of criteria on his end DW behavior shone through.
Master JWW NQ, bar down. Loved the run regardless!
Video from Sunday
Recap from Sunday
Blade:
Master Standard Q/2nd Place, second Q and 19 more points towards 2014 Nationals!
Master JWW Q/1st Place! First QQ towards next years Nationals! YAY!
Viper:
Excellent Standard NQ, DW criteria still lacking, but so much came from that! I'll post later!
Master JWW NQ, bar down. Second fastest time in 20" class. Da boy was on fire!
A weekend filled with so much good wouldn't be complete without a quote. Just sayin'. To also clarify we (the boys and I) are not suffering right now. We are simply figuring out our current level of awesomeness so we can become even MORE awesome focusing forward!
"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the life of a champion."
~ Mohammad Ali
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