Wyre show, update of where and what I am doing & a fun course plan

At last I can write a few positive things on here for a change! Although when I planned to do this Monday I was in no fit state to write anything because of possible food poisoning or a viral bug. Which- ever it was, I do not want it again. A very un-enjoyable 24hours!

In fact I am a bit concerned about my ill-fated last few . First it was my ankle, two weeks later some idiot writes my car off by driving straight into me, another two weeks and I am crippled with food poisoning... and what am I doing in two weeks from now? Taking a flight...

Any way enough of that fate, I don’t think I have ran over mystic meg recently or broken any mirrors (yes Q the “did you look in one joke!”) so here’s my decent interesting blog update that I promised!

Tuesday was my recovery day, but being a man and not wanting to make a meal of anything ;) I had a couple of lessons and then a training night in Hereford.


We focused on discrimination and also so jump space exercises. It was a fun night, especially the hot punch that was served, went down a treat! The course plan is below. I have merged the three exercises in to one big super-sized discrimination course. It is fun, just don’t knock the first pole down, kind of ruins the rest!
Back to Saturday and the show at Wyre, we had a successful day. Jack had a 2nd in G7 Agility, a 7th in jumping and a 11th in the other agility. Che had a 15th in the jumping. Scotty was working very nicely. A couple of poles in the first two runs, but a great clear and 8th place in 6&7 agility at the end of the day was pleasing. Scott was 1.12 from the winner’s time, and 0.9 from second place.
Mum did well at the show with Flynn, having a 4th in 1-3 jumping and a 10th in 3-5 agility. Well done!


Sunday was another day of losing lessons because of the horrid weather, and the general state of the ground. The ground is not really in great shape this week but I have trained Tuesday, Wednesday and all being well some on Thursday & Friday.


Saturday the 12th is Rugby Christmas show, the warm up for the LGT Christmas Dinner in the evening. I am dead excited about it and look forward to seeing everyone in something different from muddy tracksuit trousers and fleeces... or should I say full waterproofs considering the recent weather! It was fun last year and this year will be just as good.


I am also planning for my up-coming training trip back to Scandinavia. I am returning back to Norway in a week and also meeting up with Lars Bang (Denmark) as we do a joint training seminar in Tonsberg, Norway (19th & 20th).

I will put some dinner photo’s up here soon. Yes I will wear a suit, and not the Santa suit I won at the Wyre raffle on Saturday, as amusing as it maybe, the leg piece is ultra small and would not leave much the imagination ;) and I do try to be modest if I can.


Before I go I have to make a shameless plug I am afraid. The LGT Workshop DVD. It would make a fantastic Christmas present. The DVD is packed full of exercises, course plans and training tips and ideas. It is broken down into 7 sections, including waits, obstacle discrimination, contacts & common traps, amongst others! I have had fantastic feedback and would like to thank everyone who has ordered it for supporting myself and Gina who helped me produce the DVD. I am sure you will find it useful.
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Best wishes everyone. I will update hopefully after the dinner (I am sure there will be some very mature pictures from that!) and also from my time training in Norway next week.


Lee Gibson

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Update Thursday

Sorry for the lack of updates, have had na ‘eventful’ week and have also been busy doing my lessons, in amongst the bad weather! I am hoping for some better weather soon for the ground to dry out a bit. I have trained today and its not been too bad.

Am off to Wyre show Saturday, should be fun. I am looking forward to it.
Some more and interesting updates soon!

Lee

www.leegibsontraining.com

Back to it

Hello,

I went to Wilmslow show on Saturday, and managed to run. The ankle was a bit sore but I did all my runs. The dogs were really excited too as they had only had walks for about two weeks. Needless to say we knocked a few poles down, but jack still managed to get a 7th & 8th place in Agility & Jumping.

I was pleased with many elements of Scott’s runs, the weave entries were quite challenging, and although I was confident of getting them, just seeing him locate the first pole and drive toward it out of a tunnel on the angle was great. It showed great awareness and discipline.

I have been training some lessons already this week. Again the weather is really poor although it puts things into perspective when you see the serious flooding and people’s homes and lively hoods being wrecked in Cumbria and the other area’s affected, so I am not going to moan about a wet and muddy agility course!
I played 20 mins last night in the football match. My first touch of the ball was a bit painful but after that running and using it was great. I even scored a beauty of a goal. What was better was that we won, beating the other rival team from Church Stretton 11-7. Get in!

I am also just getting stuck into the new issue of Agilityzone. Well worth a look, this magazine gets better and better ever issue. www.agilityzone.co.uk

Bye for now – Lee

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Hopping about!

Hello.

First things first... my ankle is still sore! I have been training (doing my lessons) most days, but have yet to run on it yet. I almost fell over walking the dogs this evening even though i have a huge ankle support on it now!

I think football is out the question this week, but I have Wilmslow show Saturday. I hope to run there but its still in the balance I think. This may not be a bad thing actually as Scott has also been out of action for a couple of weeks, and has done no training at all! The saying coiled spring comes to mind for Saturday. Maybe I will find a surrogate handler for him... lucky them!

Weather has been really poor these last few weeks. I had to cancel training Saturday and Monday, although now the course is draining really well due to my relentless spiking it with my pitch fork and other farm yard objects!

Not being able to play football has given me chance to sit and watch some TV and play on mums new Wii consol.. although maybe that is not the best for the ankle, tennis and sword play etc!! I have never watched X-factor before, but last Sunday I even watched Xtra-factor. Over the last few weeks I have watched it more and more. In fact I consider myself an expert as I one hundred percent correctly predicted the bottom two and the eventual result after Saturdays show, and was proved right Sunday evening. Maybe I should be a judge of talent too ;) now who agrees... that sounds like fun!?

I don’t have any training news to report at the moment, but will write up an account of Saturdays show. Hopefully something good to report!

The LGT Workshop DVD, available in European and USA formats can be ordered from www.leegibsontraining.com

Best wishes all - Lee

This hurt!

Hello,

This week has turned into a very painful one! Playing my regular 5-a-side on Monday evening, I chased down a ball and went over on my ankle. As soon as it happened I knew it was a bad one, but when we took my boot and shin pad off I was quite shocked at the amount of swelling. Needless to say it was rather painful!

Here is a picture from Tuesday, just to prove im not exaggerating!

I think I will not be able to play for a little while now, and hobbled about Tuesday evening whilst doing a training seminar in Hereford. Not quite my agile energetic self at the moment, but im not one to make a fuss!

Here is the plan from my seminar from Tuesday evening:

There are many combinations to do on this grid. The key points were based around not moving to close to jumps that you dont need to, and to trust the dogs to be independent and craft the turn themselves, based on our voice and body signals.

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LGT Show - Great Course Plan

Hello,

I have been a bit behind on answering emails and updating in the last week. It has been busy one.

Well done to everyone who did well at the show I held on Saturday, it was a really fun day and I was pleased everyone improved and did some good runs.
Here is the course plan most will want to see again. The see-saw and weave combination caused 'some' problems... Remember what we talked about, shaping and speed etc!
Lee
www.leegibsontraining.com

Training & Course Plan:

Hello,

This week has been a busy week for training. I have had a lot of lessons, however Sunday I was forced to cancel all the lessons due to the horrendous weather.


Next Saturday I am having a fun competition day for everyone that trains with me here at LGT. I am hoping it will be a fun day and great to get the dogs working with lots of noise and distractions. This is not an open invite but everyone who trains here is welcome (please contact me if you wish to come down and i have not yet spoken to you!)


The LGT Xmas meal is booked, if you have not had your form from me yet, please contact me and il get one to you. I need it back by the 20th November.


This-weeks course plan – I know I set several of you home work on certain bits of it (re shaping and turn infomation / working the 'gaps' ):

Try - Wall, dogwalk, tunnel, jump, weave.

Also wall, dogwalk, tunnel, jump, across to the fan of three jumps and weave!

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Regards - Lee