On Sunday I went to my first-ever agility training by a Finnish coach. Erk has done the previous ones with Marko. It took place on the open air field, with artificial (football) grass. We had never done agility on that surface and it proved to be more slippery for the dog. We practiced "back cross" (tagantlõige), which was quite logical and easy, then we tried to make the dog jump diagonally over the obstacle and the goal was that the dog continued the same direction. However, as we have only done it the way that the dog makes a back turn on the obstacle, so it was relatively hard. Erk didn't care at all, that Juha had his toy and was directing him to jump correctly. Erk stubbornly made a back turn and concentrated on me.
But the final exercise was the "waltz", or whatever it was called. I think we got it correctly right from the beginning and Juha said several times, that I was doing it REALLY EXCELLENT :D
It's on this video at 1:10
Helen
