Practices

Zio's turns at the demo without props seemed to hold up fairly well, but I think he always tends to do them better on grass (slower?). We have continued to use the 10" board laying flat against the box pedal as the only prop. He occasionally slips up and his bottom rear foot will land on the board, but I don't think he likes that because it causes that foot to slip when he pushes off. At this point, we've really done all we can do in preparation for the championship.

We have one more team practice Sunday and I hope we can find a spot to get some team runs in before we go. We were going to get together Wednesday, but it was very cold and rainy, so we cancelled it. I'd rather know ahead of time if Cody is going to be back up to speed and to get Michele, Daniel, and Susan Owen a little more practice on their starts passing into different dogs with the new lineup.