Sightseeing around Oslo!

Holmenkollen Ski Jump, just next to a professional Biathlon track and ski arena.
View accross Oslo

Oslo center

Oslo castle, where the royal familly live

The gaurd wanted his photo taken with me!

Angry Boy - part of the Vigelandsparken, which is a collection sculptures in the park. They are all of naked human bodies, and there were so many!

Shrek?

Just some of the massive amounts of work on show

Pro tourist

And I have been taking a relaxing drink too! This morning I went for a run, it was amazing environment to run in, the sunshine on the snow and the lovely sea air. Fantastic!

I am here in Tonsberg until Thursday when I move to Bergen.

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Norway training & update

Norway (Tonsberg) Agility Saturday & Sunday

Below is Sundays exercisesBelow is Saturdays exercises

Tonsberg Agility: Saturday and Sunday

Above are the two exercise course plans from the weekend training seminar from Tonsberg (Norway).

Saturday we spent a lot of time focusing the dogs to go to their proper position on the contact pieces, and remain confident even if the handler moved away from the contact pieces (Introduction to independent contacts) and we made a point of always rewarding accuracy and also rewarding the key concept of training contacts!

Sunday we developed the sequences to put obstacles physically in between ourselves and the contact areas. The tunnel acted as a spacer and kept the dogs away from the handlers.

We also worked on the ‘stages of training a seesaw’ and working fans. Both course plans have fans (Saturday was small and Sunday was a large fan) but the principal for supporting the dog through the obstacles was the same on both sequences.

Overall it was a great two days of seminars, and the handlers made a big improvement throughout the two days, but also we have laid some foundations for future training.

I had a great time this weekend with the groups and look forward to training again soon with the participants of the weekend.
Lee
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Off to Norway

Today I am flying to Norway (Tonsberg) for my ten days training in Norway. I have packed as much as I can and am looking forward to it!

Well done to Alice Moodie and to Georgina Baker for their fantastic runs in the YKC Agility dog of the year yesterday at Crufts. I had a good day watching and also working on the Purina Pro Plan stand.

Updates coming - Lee

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Good luck at Crufts

Good luck at Crufts to Alice Moodie and Aljeana Baddley, who are both competing there this weekend. I will be thinking of you!

A big well done to Janet and Ceri Jones and Sue Taylor, for there fantasic results last weekend at Agility Addicts. Well done I was very proud.

Friday I fly to Norway for 10 days, the first half in Tonsberg and the second half in Bergen. I am looking forward to the trip a lot, although I am still slighly depressed about Scotts broken toe, he is very upset being shut in a cage doing nothing, but it is for the best.

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Broken Toe...

Here is a little update of what I have been up to lately, although there is not a lot of good news this week.

Today I returned from the vet with Scott in a bandage, he went lame on Sunday, and after an x-ray and a consultation today, he has a broken toe. I am gutted as have been training well recently, and this now means 4 or 5 weeks off. However, it is done now and I am going to hope for a quick recovery and back to training soon. I think I maybe cursed with some of the luck I have had in the last few months!

I also have no joy on getting my mobile phone back, and this evening we lost in our football match, so all in all an expensive and depressing day!! Sunday was a better day, took some of my dogs to the beach in Wales, it was lovely weather for the seaside!


This Thursday I am at Crufts, and will be on the Purina stand (Hall 3) over lunch time, if you want to come and say hello.

On Friday I fly to Norway for 10 days training, I am looking forward to heading there again, I always have fun when I am there.

Lee

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Training Scott on the new jumping area

Here are a few pictures from training on the new course. It will enhance my lessons a lot being able to use this area, as many people have found out already!

Lee

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LGT News

Hello,
Well again I seem to be kicking my heals with this weather, not been able to train since last Thursday now, when will this winter end.

Some good news now is that I have a new jumping area complete and ready to use. In fact I plan to use it for today’s lesson as the main course is still soaked. The new area is enclosed with wooden fencing and has jumps and a tunnel, which will enable me to practice a lot of jumping sequences and handling skills within my lessons.

I was going to get a picture but it is raining now, so maybe il do it another time.
I decided not to go to Newton Heath on Saturday mainly due to the fact I had Everton v Man U tickets and would have only been able to do one run. Was worth it though... 3-1

I am now looking forward to April and the shows starting in some nicer weather. I am especially looking forward to the European open trials in late April, as well as my trips to Norway (March) for training and the Czech Republic (April) for judging.
I would like to say congratulations to Agilityzone magazine for its 1 year birthday. Really looking good and if you don’t already, I would advise you to subscribe to Agilityzone magazine, or at least take a look at
http://www.agilityzone.co.uk/


Some of you will know I had a nice new phone recently. Well my nice new phone is currently at the Nokia Repair shop with what looks like a cracked under-screen. I was very annoyed as it is only couple of weeks old and I had not done anything to break it, however I am hopeful it will be sorted soon. For now I have been using an old pink phone (which got me a lot of abuse on a facebook thread!).
Over the weekend some people sent me messages, I was unable to read these, the screen was ruined. If I have not replied, don’t be offended. I can now receive them, messages, I have set up a brand new voicemail too, and call catcher (as I have no signal I think I can now see if I miss calls when at home!) so if anyone needs to get in touch about training or anything else, it should be okay now.

‘Stretton All Stars’ beat the ‘Old Boys’ 11 – 7 on Monday night to record their second league win in as many games. I have found my shooting boots too, not bragging but I did play well. We only had 5 players and had two games, that is basically 80mins. Now that is a work out and a half! Last night we all watched the Champions league game.. two pizza's and a doughnut not quite an athletes diet is it.

Well done to Ceri Jones who has been gaining some super places at Agility Addicts and last weeks Newton Heath show. Also to Sue Taylor who has just started training with me and has had a great few runs at Agility Addicts show recently also.

That is just about it from me. Might just walk up the hill to check my texts now... some things never change I guess!

Lee

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