Saturday, July 31, 2010

ARCH Magic!

Well we did it. Despite me, we did it.  I was really nervous today, and I am sure Magic felt it.
Trial 1 Level 1 205 Fair run but I had to give dual commands several times. His fronts were really crooked.
Trial 1 Level 2 199 Better- would have been a 209 but I had him do a sit where there should not have been one, which was a 10 point handler error. Nerves I guess.  I really felt shaky during this run, and really cant remember much of it I was so unnerved. Gotta work on that.

Trial 2 Level 1 204 Again dual commands and a couple tight leashes. And crooked fronts.
Trial 2 Level 2 209 Nice run, the bonus test was Leave dog turn and down. He took a step before he downed. I can live with that!

Then since we earned that ARCH with the 2 double Q's, I decided to add in a level 3 run in the second trial. There we earned a 207, which I was very pleased with. I am not sur ewhere the points off were here, but it didnt matter, the run felt so much better. Of course it did- I wnet in with the attitude that we are going to go play and he loved that! He was much more up and happy to play.  Tomorrow I am going to work on the play!

It was nice today getting to play with our fellow bloggers, and dog friends. In the air conditioning!

6 comments:

Taryn said...

WooHoo! Congrats!

penni said...

Great job! Congratulations to the Team.

Katie said...

Congratulations!

Jules said...

Congratulations!!! I hope you two celebrated!

Holly said...

Good going Team Magic! Congratulations!

Crystal (Thompson) Barrera said...

I love Magic. I didn't know you guys did Level 3- I would have come and watched had I known!

Thanks again for showing me how to feel Magic's shoulders and hips and stuff. That was so cool, and really helped me feel/understand what's going on a bit better.