A very fun weekend at Sure Shots' tournament in Bonham, TX. For the club, it was a weekend of learning. Multiple combinations of dogs on the Step On It team required adjustments to the lineup and changes in pass timing. It started to come together Sunday afternoon as we broke the club's best ever time (twice) with a combination of Wisp, Scout, Zio, and Meekah. Unfortunately, both times will remain unofficial because they were breakout times (more than a second faster than our submitted seed time). One more breakout would have disqualified us from the tournament! I do have our 19.155 time on video though and will post it to the YouTube account today or tomorrow. We can easily get to the 18 second range with better passing. Zio ran a 4.3 and change on one of his runs, which is the fastest I've seen him run. If he would only do his turns right, he could be another tenth or two faster.
Our next tournament won't be until the end of August, when Hyper Flight hosts another tournament in Bonham. That gives me two months to practice with Zio. His turns absolutely fell apart at the tournament. He has so much speed by the time he gets to the box that I think he has a hard time getting stopped in time. He started the weekend with some hard, three legged, wide turns... regressed to crashing and turning to the right for a while, and finally was just crashing the box hard head on.
With raffles, gifts, and prizes... we ended up hauling back two tugs, one leash, one flyball pin, a really cool print of original artwork, and a handcrafted crate pad!
Oh... Full Speed Ahead went head to head against Sure Shots in the human flyball finals and lost the deciding race by a six tenths of a second. We won the prize though since the hosts weren't keeping their own prizes!
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How cool! I really wish Mardi was focused enough to do something like this because she is very fast, but right now she is obsessed wit Gecko's.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy for you both