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Michael Romanos · 10:46 PM

Taylor and I started in agility only since February, 2005 and we have been competing since April. Taylor's speed around the courses is good as is his weaving. For example today at the ribbon trial (non-championship) he finished fifth fastest in both the starters event and the jumpers(starters) event - and these were against allcomers ie in New Zealand they have yet to introduce separate competitions for the dog sizes. But he knocked down too many hurdles. This part of his abilities seems to have gone backwards since we started. Today from three events (including the novice contact event, he knocked down a total of seven hurdles. What can I do to get him to jump more cleanly?

In his first ever competition back in April after just six training sessions, he knocked down only the last hurdle when I got excited and sped him up too much on his approach to it,
So far he has had one clear round and six others where he has knocked down only a single hurdle.

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Michael Romanos Global Moderator Dog Profile Status: Offline Posts: 4,700 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Silverstream (near Wellington, the capital of NZ)	My Corgi needs to jump higher in agility - 10-28-2005, 10:42 PM Taylor and I started in agility only since February, 2005 and we have been competing since April. Taylor's speed around the courses is good as is his weaving. For example today at the ribbon trial (non-championship) he finished fifth fastest in both the starters event and the jumpers(starters) event - and these were against allcomers ie in New Zealand they have yet to introduce separate competitions for the dog sizes. But he knocked down too many hurdles. This part of his abilities seems to have gone backwards since we started. Today from three events (including the novice contact event, he knocked down a total of seven hurdles. What can I do to get him to jump more cleanly? In his first ever competition back in April after just six training sessions, he knocked down only the last hurdle when I got excited and sped him up too much on his approach to it, So far he has had one clear round and six others where he has knocked down only a single hurdle. Last edited by Michael Romanos : 10-28-2005 at 10:46 PM.