Japan Thursday 10th Update & Seminar Exercise Plans

Hello.

I have finished another day’s seminar. Today was the professional’s seminar. We focused on three exercises.

1)      Managing positioning & sending the dog

2)      Contact independence, rear cross  go a rounds.

3)      Course decal and winning line selection

Please find the attached course plans below.

Tomorrow we are leaving for a new venue 3 hours away. Saturday will be the competition where I am judging. I am looking forward to the completion. It has been a great second day.

Enjoy the pictures.

Lee

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Japan Update First Seminar Day

Hello everyone,

I have made it here safe and sound. Now writing this after a great first days training. Its almost 7pm and I am in another hotel room having just taken a shower. We are going out for dinner soon.

Yesterday evening I arrived at Osaka airport. It was very humid. We stayed at the airport hotel before leaving this morning for the first training venue. All of my flights had been fine, plenty of room, food and beer. Also watched a few good films too. I was quite late to the gate in Hong Kong though, after security checks took a while.

Today I had a seminar group of 28! Never had such a large group before. We trained for 6 hours, 3 each side of lunch (which I ate witn chop sticks!).

We focused on lines, turns, deceleration and acel points.

Here are some pictures, and the course plan.

Today has been a super first day.

Regards - Lee

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Prague Exercise Plans

Hello. I have returned from my trip to Prague. Here are the exercise plans from the last two days of seminars.

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Prague update

Hello

This has been a very interesting couple of days in Prague so far. I have just finished judging 350 dogs over my jumping course. I had 99 small dogs in my final class of the day and about 50 medium. The rest were all large, around 200.

I arrived on Friday evening at Prague having flown my usual route out of Birmingham and via Amsterdam. However, my joy at arriving in plus 25 degree’s and hot sunshine was short-lived when it was discovered that my bag containing everything I had packed had not made my connection and was still in Amsterdam.

KLM told me that there was a good chance I would get the bag that evening, and in the worst case scenario by the Saturday morning. This was not ideal but I was happy to go with it as I didn’t really have much choice!

I then went to the agility venue with was in Kemp Lavka Skochovice. I am staying in a room which is part of the venue. There is not much here as far as facilities but I do have internet and a basic bathroom. (this proved very useful to wash a pair of boxers in!) I also managed to blag some ladies shampoo from someone at the show which proved useful. (My hair has never felt so good.. haha!)

So come Saturday morning, with only my hand luggage (containing my laptop!) and Friday’s clothes I was forced to go and acquire a judging kit! My kit was to include a whistle, sun hat, sun glasses, shorts and a clean T-shirt.

I had to judge all day in Friday’s boxers and borrowed clothes. I was judging Agility class which formed part of the qualification for the Czech National Team for the World Championships 2012. My course was challenging and did DQ quite a few dogs and handlers, but some of the best runs were excellent to watch.

Luckily there is a bar onsite which I have unlimited access to (being a responsible judge!) which helped easy my pain after judging 350 dogs and taking a shower, just to put the same clothes back on again!

One of my friends here at the venue was calling KLM and asking all day where my bag was. It eventually turned up at 8.30pm… almost 26 hours late! I was literally leaving to go to a supermarket to buy new stuff as I was thoroughly annoyed by then at the poor service!

So Saturday night was A LOT cleaner and fresher, and today (Sunday) I have been judging the jumping classes, again another 350 dogs. The weather is hot and almost feels like there will be a storm. I have got a sun tan I think.

Tomorrow I will do the first day of my two day training seminar.

I hear it has been rather wet in England?!

Lee

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Update, training and Sadie

Hello,

Been ages since I have written on here.

Here is a summary of what has happened since:

My final days in Luxembourg were super. We did some great exercises on the last day and had a mock competition. I was really well looked after at the week and enjoyed my time there very much.

Last week I was training a lot in rain. Huge amounts of rain! The weather recently has been really bad. String wind, heavy rain and limited sunshine.

We were due to go to Lincoln show for the whole weekend, but in the end I went just for the EO selection day. Unfortunately I (despite no Eliminations all day) finished 9^th overall, and the top 8 were taken.

The conditions were horrible. Mud, rain and hail stones. Scott works a lot better on a true surface and on Saturday we had 2 runs with 5 faults due to poles or Scott slipping on the wet ground. I did manage a high place in the jumping round though. I was disappointed not to be selected but accept the decision in good sport.

This week again has been busy, lessons every day and again very wet weather. Friday I fly to Prague and will judge for 2 days in the Czech capital, before doing a 2 day seminar on Monday and Tuesday.

I have one other piece of news:

I have a new puppy (Probably the reason I have had no time to write on here!) she is called Sadie and my Taddymoor Scott is her uncle. She is out of Taddymoor Roy.

Enjoy the pics!

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Luxembourg 12th April Exercise Plans

Todays exercise and course plan

Lee

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Luxembourg day one exercise plans

Hello,
Been a great first day here in Luxembourg. I have met some great people, we have done some hard work and also had a lot of laughs too.

Here are todays exercise plans.

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