We were away long enough from agility this past summer that we lost our spot in our favorite class.  There’s a waiting list to get in!  Fortunately,  we were able to start back up in November and where we left off.   Good thing Java and I are not on any time constraint!  Truthfully, I don’t see us competing so classes and training games at home work for us.

Our focus is the weave poles.  That is what keeps us back from moving up to the next level.  I’m having better success than I had been by using the channel method.  That is when you have 6 poles and offset every-other pole several inches so there is a channel, or corridor, of space for the dog to run down.  The channel is decreased slowly until all the poles are in a straight line.  I think I’ll pull out the video camera to show the progression …