My Road Trip - Sweden/Demark July 2012

I am writing a quick update to let everyone know where I will be for the next month or so. I will try and update when I have internet but wont always, so here is a brief summary!

Leaving tonight (Sunday 8^th July) for a epic road trip through Europe. Over the next two days I travel (via Eurotunnel, and then ferry from Germany - Trellborg) up to Sweden for two days seminar. Then I head West back to Denmark for a weekend seminar, before moving on to Jutlandia Cup 2012. At Jutlandia I am competing and judging the finals.

After that is a new location in Denmark for more seminars, and finally at the end of the month heading back to Sweden for the Agility European Open 2012 as part of team GB.

I will have my mobile but also have a roaming SIM that I can use number +447448974280 which will be in use for the whole trip. I will also have local sims and also my normal mobile number, that will receive calls and texts fine, I just wont use it to make any communications as it costs more than the roaming sim.

I will pick up my emails from time to time.

It should be a fun trip, I just hope I have packed everything, it seems like I have quite a lot considering its just me and Scott going!

Speak soon.

Regards

Lee

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Agirotu 2012 Lee Gibson Course Plans

Hello,

I am now packing my bags for the early flight home tomorrow. Been a super weekend here in Finland working alongside some great Finnish Judges and also Ronald Mouven from the Netherlands.

We have had 3 days for judging, and one day of seminars. The seminar day went really well and we practiced rear-crosses as an alternative to front crossing and (forced-decel on landing via front cross) and created some awkward combinations for this. It was a fun day.

On the weekend I was judging some normal classes, but also the large and small finals. For those of you who are my “friend” on facebook, you will see some of the results and video’s.

The courses that we both set tested various elements. They were testing but fair, and the spirt amongst the winners and also those who didn’t quite make it, was fantastic.

Today Ronald and myself had the hardest job of all, picking a winner from the fancy dress competition for the teams. This was hard as there were so many great outfits!

Here are the courses.

*please note, what the course is labelled as is not always the class it was used for. The international class was the “final” and the team was the class 3 International.*

Thanks to everyone involved in running this event. We even made the local paper too!

Please enjoy and share!

Kiitos Suomi!

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Finland Seminar Plan 28th June

Hello,

Right now I am in the North West of Finland, at the Agirotu 2012. I flew here last night from Manchester and changed at Helsinki.

I will be teaching this afternoon on a training course for handling. Below is the course plan.

Tomorrow I will be judging, and also Saturday and Sunday. I am staying in a nice hotel but it was quite hard to sleep last night because it was so light outside!

I will update back with how the seminar went this afternoon. Currently it is raining outside so I better take my rain coat!

Lee

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Tonsberg Exercise Plans

Today I am flying back to the UK from Norway. Again we have had more problems with the flights but I think it is sorted now. The rest of this weeks exercise plans:

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Tonsberg Seminar Plan Tuesday

Tuesday mornings seminar course plan:

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Monday Seminar Exercise Plan Tonsberg

I have been judging in Sanderfjord for this last weekend. This week I have seminars in Tonsberg. This morning (Monday was the first of those) I have several more.

Here is the exercise plan for the morning session.

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Scotts agility win video & update

Hello

Below is Scotts win from Hinckley show. We have now qualified for the second day semi final for Olympia which is a relief having missed out on day one, mostly due to not being here to run in all but 2 if the heats.

I had a good weekend at Hinckley, Scott made the Championship final despite ranking on 39^th place after round one due to 1 pole and a refusal in the agility round. I was angry at myself for some less than clever handing, and vowed to put it right in the jumping round, which we did. Scott did a cracking round finishing 3^rd. This was enough to haul me back to 15^th place overall meaning we made the final.

In the final we had hard luck, taking the second pole down on a ‘go around’ which put us out of the running.

However we redeemed ourselves on Sunday, with Scott winning with a super round in the Agility stakes class, judged by Anthony Clarke who also won the Championship on Saturday. Congratulations to them.

This week I am training quite a few lessons on Tuesday, before the rest of the week becomes quieter ready for Thames next weekend. Always a great show for social as well as agility.

A big well done to Wendy Williams and Fern for winning the Adams Derby this weekend, and to Sue Taylor and Mary Shaw for a 1^st & 2^nd respectively in G6 Jumping at PADS. I also want to say a huge well done to Dave Russell and Cae for their many recent successes including a Gold Medal at WAO in Belgium. A fantastic achievement. My students are doing me proud this season. Keep up the good work.

Lee

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