Saturday Judging Oulu

Here are some judging shots from today (Saturday), aswell as some training pictures from Friday.

The weather was fairly kind to us today, only one real heavy burst of rain. I hope for the same tomorrow.

Thanks for all the Tea supplied today, I was kept well dosed up!!

Lee

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Training Pics from Oulu

Here are some pictures from the training seminars up in Oulu. I still cannot get used to the amount of daylight up here!

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Oulu Day 1

Well here I am writing from Oulu.

The flight was so much better it does not compare to last Fridays, and it is nice to see another region of Finland. I am in fact only 100km or so from the Arctic Circle, which is impressive. The sun is just going down and it is 23.45pm now.

I have 8 hours of seminars tomorrow, so will get to sleep soon I think. I had 5 hours this evening, one of which was ran via a translator which was fun!!

Lee - www.leegibsontraining.co.uk

Thanks KKK - on to Oulu

I would just like to say thank you to everyone at KKK for such a great few days. The organisers of the show and the participants in training, as well as the other people I have encountered along the way, it has been a pleasure to be here judging & training.

Thank you to Juha & Riikka who have been my hosts since Friday, it has been such fun.

Here is a selection of pictures from the last few days which sum up how much fun it has been!

Wednesday I am moving to Oulu (further north in Finland) where I am training Wednesday eve, Thursday & Friday, before judging on both days of the weekend.

Lee

Here are the 3/4 Gina... sexy eh!?
Supersize Tea making exercise!

Helsinki night out on Friday, very very funny.

Famous Pancakes cooked by the master himself!

Oh yes!

Its like 24/7 work here

The supermarket has a place to put the dogs, what a good idea!!

My judging gift

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Modays Training Photo's

Hello,

I hear the weather in the UK is not really very good?? Not trying to rub it in but it has been about +20 degree’s here and so warm I trained in a T shirt all day!

Here are some training photo’s from today’s seminars. What a fantastic venue. Purpose built for agility. Not bad eh? Full video room & kitchen also!

Training was really fun to do. We focused on sending the dogs to jumps and sections of the course away from the handler. The handlers did very well and progressed a lot in two hours (3 x 2 hour sessions).

Regards - Lee

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Sunday pictures & update

Here are some photo's from Sunday at the KKK show. I have also put the course plans on too.

Class 3

Class 2

Class 1

Yesterday was the second day of the show. All the courses had a British flavour too them and all of the class winners deserve a big well done for the excellent runs they had.

The weather was very hot yesterday, and it is again today. I slept in rather late today and have still not quite sorted out Finnish time yet!

Now I am training for 6 hours this afternoon and evening, and I have the same tomorrow. I am looking forward to the training sessions. We have just made an industrial size flask of tea for the training.

Regards to everyone back home!

Lee

Saturday

Today was the first day of the show. I judged class 1,2&3 (small, medium & large) agility all day. I had some great runs on the courses.

After the show we went to a Finnish national park, which was stunning. I am just about to eat and have just come out of the sauna, which was unsurprisingly very hot! I can take it for a short while but not for too long. I feel very refreshed now though!

Last night’s quite drink in Helsinki turned into a epic night out in the city, however it was very funny and I enjoyed it a lot.

Sunday I have the same classes to judge again.

Lee