Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Sweden


Hello

The last 48 hours have been pretty much all travel for me. First of all I left home on Sunday evening to travel down to the EuroTunnel, where I arrived at 1.30am. My booking was for 6.20am, and annoyingly there were no earlier trains I could switch too, meaning I slept at the ET until the early morning.

Once I crossed the channel I quickly stopped at the Cite du Europe where I always by pasties etc to take on the drive.

I also filled up with fuel (a lot cheaper than back home!) and drove out of Calais at 9am. From there I drove through France, Belgium, Holland and into Germany. My destination was one of my friends houses less than an hour from Lubeck (Travelmund) Port which is where I stayed Monday evening.

The drive up was quite long, around 8 hours or so. The route is quite easy mind.

Tuesday morning I was up early again to drive to the port to catch the ferry of which I am now sitting on. The crossing is Travelmund to Trellborg with TTline. The crossing is 7 hours and if I am honest its is boring as. There is not much to do on board and worst of all the internet (although appears to work fine) is very poor and keeps cutting out. All I have been able to access is my Twitter and sometimes my Skype but that doesn’t even work properly.

I should dock at 5pm and then I will stop and walk Scotty for a bit and then drive on to the training venue. I should be there around 7.30pm.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I start the first of the two days training seminars. The weather forecast isn’t great, there has been threats of floods even in the South of Sweden, although on the other hand the sun is out at the moment.

Okay ive just come to post this, and now \I am at the venue, had some food and walked Scotty. Am now relaxing and going to take a shower.

Tomorrow we start setting up at 8.30am so its another early start!

Lee


Sunday, 8 July 2012

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 8th 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

Sunday, 1 July 2012

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!





Thursday, 28 June 2012

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

www.leegibsontraining.com

Thursday, 21 June 2012

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:






Monday, 18 June 2012

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.