Our club ran a Ribbon Trial last weekend, after 2 weeks of rain and wind, it came right just before the show and went back to rain the day after.

 I ran Kiltie in her first show since we've been re-training the basics and it went really well, we got disqualified every round, but she was pretty close to completing clear in both Starters course, and she was damn quick. The other event we entered was Open Jumpers, which was too hard for her at this stage. It had a sequence with 2 tunnels and a jump in the middle, the tunnel was far too tempting.

After the TDAA Nationals I left Springfield IL determined to drive no more than two hours whereupon I would find a hotel that accepted dogs and then settle down to a well-deserved rest with no alarm clock to rouse me from my slumber. I settled on a Comfort Inn which fit the bill, and has high speed internet to boot.

Here are some unedited interviews, including one with Sharon Nelson, that I did at the final awards ceremony on September 24th, 2006 at the NADAC Championships in Gillette, Wyoming.

I just arrived here in Gillette, Wyoming for the NADAC Championships. They run Wednesday thru Sunday, September 20-24, 2006. The event is being held at a place called Cam-Plex indoors in a small horse arena.

I will post links to all the course maps, results and videos that I put up from the Bay Team in this blog.

Side by side agility video of Decaff & Jayci, top 2 dogs in the 16" Grand Prix final round. 

Here is some interesting information on the latest news about what was the ESPN Great Outdoor Games. 

Basically it sounds like ESPN is no longer the guiding force behind it.  Everything else is still to be determined. Except for that it will be an invitational and not affliated with any agility oraganization.

I'm happy to announce that I will be travelling to Gillette Wyoming to video the NADAC Championships, Sept 20-24. This will be my first foray into the world of NADAC agility. It should be quite interesting. If you are are running a dog there, click here to sign up for a video from NADAC championships.

Kilties first show-

I got brave and entered Kiltie in her first champ show, probably too early, but I wanted to gauge where we were with her training. The show was at Kapiti, just a small show with one ring.

We'd just entered Starters, and I was going to enter jumpers with weave as well, this could be done on the day. We run a starters class here in NZ, it's a easy jumpers with weave course. There's no contact equipment and usually no more than 1 trap.