Happy New Year & South Africa

Hello Everyone,



First things first...


Happy New Year. I hope it is fantastic, prosperous, happy, healthy and successful!


Over the Christmas period I have been at home. I was planning to go to Finland for some time over the Christmas/New Year period, but as the horrendous weather put paid to all the training, it also put paid to my travel plans. However it was an enjoyable Christmas & New Year in Shropshire.


So now we are in 2011, and for me it is an flying start. Tomorrow (Monday 3rd January) I fly out of Heathrow on a 12 hour flight to Cape Town, South Africa.


I am lucky enough to be going there to train seminars, judge and share my agility knowledge. I am not just in Cape Town, but also visiting Port Elizabeth & Johannesburg.


The calendar page on my website www.leegibsontraining.com shows the exact dates of travel, but I am away until the 27th of January. Just a note about the website, it is working, just not the .co.uk address.


I have with me my camera and video, which I hope to take lots of pictures etc with and post up here on the blog and facebook as often as I can (although I am not sure when and at which places I will have internet yet) and keep in touch. However I have to say just in case anyone emails me for any reason, it maybe that you don’t get a reply until the end of January.


I am excited about the trip, and meeting the people of South Africa and helping them with training & handling, but I am also a little nervous as I am away for 3 & half weeks travelling between the cities on my own. It should be a great time.


I depart Heathrow at 20.15pm Monday 3rd, and land in Cape Town 10.30am local time on Tuesday 4th January (South Africa is 1 hour ahead).


Until my next update... best wishes and a Happy New Year.


Lee


http://www.leegibsontraining.com/

LGT Xmas meal

Last Saturday was the LGT Christmas meal, which proved to be a good night. Here are a few of pictures from the night thanks to David Williams.

Training is still hit and miss due to the frozen ground. It has not been as warm as promised and the weather is set to return to cold as we go through the week. Check before with me re training.

One of my website names seems to be down, but my site via .com is still up and running, so please use http://www.leegibsontraining.com/

Lee

http://www.leegibsontraining.com/ 

December 9th Update

Update:







Well the last two weeks have been very difficult, the weather has been very bad at home and the surrounding area, so I have not been able to do any training at all.


The situation across the UK has been difficult, and several shows were cancelled as many areas of the country were impassable.


I have been sending DVD’s across the UK and Europe over the last few days, ready for Christmas. Other than that is has not been a very productive few days at all.


The LGT Xmas meal is this weekend on Saturday, which I am looking forward to. It should be good fun and with the forecast of warmer temperatures at least for the weekend, then there should be no problems there at least.


I am hoping that maybe next week I am able to do some training of some sort, but I am not too hopeful because of how frozen the ground is deep down.


For now, stay safe and see everyone soon... hopefully!


Lee


http://www.leegibsontraining.com/

Great Christmas Gift Idea: The LGT Workshop DVD

Hello,

Looking for the ideal Agility Christmas gift? Then look no further than my Workshop Training DVD. The DVD is over 70 minutes long and is packed with exercises, handling tips, slow motion analysis and essential training information.

The DVD has 6 separate sections, with exercises and training given on Contacts, Waits, Common Course Traps, Obstacle discrimination, Weaves and even Full Courses.

The format of the DVD allows you to look at each section individually, and work through at your own pace. Course and exercise plans can be downloaded from www.leegibsontraining.com and you can refer back to the DVD simply by selection which chapter, or training section you wish to view.

Here are two sample review of the Workshop DVD:

“I got your DVD since a few days and today I got time to look. There are many items in it I like and that I can use in my exercises.


Also things I knew from experience but nobody told me why to do so and now you just told me why it is so in your DVD. So thank you and of course I hope the next DVD will follow very soon...


Regards from me and be sure I will motivate the people in my class to run your way”

Serge - Belgium

“This is the first agility DVD I've bought and it was recommended to me by a friend and I must say its addictive. You can't stop watching it, there's so much to take from it. I have only been doing agility for a year and the DVD was a real eye opener and I can't wait to start training what I have learned. Many thanks and super quick delivery”

Kathryn Birch – Banbury

The Workshop DVD can be ordered directly from me through http://www.leegibsontraining.com/lgtdvd.htm  , and I will personally dispatch the DVD in time for Christmas (If ordered before mid December, if ordered after I cannot guarantee that it will arrive before but I will try and dispatch as soon as possible)

Priced at £21 inc delivery, the DVD offers fantastic value for money and will help with training for all levels. I hope you enjoy the LGT Workshop DVD.

Here is a trailer of the DVD, from YouTube. Please be aware of copyright law on the LGT Workshop DVD.

Many, many thanks for your support.

Lee Gibson

http://www.leegibsontraining.com/

Update Monday 29th Nov

Hello,



The main news to update is that I haven’t been able to do anything much lately because of the weather conditions! The cold snap that has hit the country has made it impossible to drive up to my house unless you have a 4x4, and the ground on the course has been frozen solid since last Thursday (25th November) meaning I lost the whole weekends training and looking at the forecast, the whole or at least most of this week.



It is a lovely sight indeed the snow, and we walked the dogs over the hill Saturday. They loved it and had a good time, but it does very much hamper doing any constructive training. I think the water table is very high in the surrounding hills and that was partly why the course was so wet recently, and with the drop in temperature (we had -8 on Saturday night) the frozen ground is now several inches deep.

 I hope I have some good news to report soon, but currently there seems no respite in the snow and ice. Stay safe. Lee




http://www.leegibsontraining.com/

Update

Its been a while.. but all is good.

Just back from a weekend training in Norway (Stavanger) with a great group of people. We focused on specific things and built on the key skills. The dogs all improved well.

Here are the course plans from the BSD selection day a week ago, which I judged.

Regards for now

Lee

http://www.leegibsontraining.com/ 

* LGT workshop DVD on sale * LGT workshop DVD on sale * LGT workshop DVD on sale *

Hereford C/plan & Update

This is the plan from last Tuesdays (November 2nd) training night in Hereford. Brilliant for making us send our dogs away from us. I took the idea from a course in Denmark I ran this summer, but changed bits of it to make it a good training exercise.

This Saturday I have a training day, and on Sunday I am Judging for the GB team of GSD's on the selection day for the 2011 championships.

Its been a good week training.

Lee

www.leegibsontraining.com