CACIAG in Viljandi

On 14.-15. of May 2016 the whole weekend was filled with agility and I managed to reach to the competition on Sunday. The day before there was regular competion with three runs, but on Sunday there was again CACIAG (agility+jumping), that I thought was much more important than simple competition, and additionally one ordinary agility course. Judge was from Hungary, Veronica Herendy. She has been our judge once before in a competition at TAKO hall.
Luckily for us, the competion started with a jumping course and that is mostly our shtick, because there is no contacts from where to jump of (see-saw) or just leave without permission (A-frame, dogwalk). Also we have had problems with over excitement, especially in the first run and I hoped that Erk will let out some steam and be calmer before the second run that was more important for us (agilitycourse).
Speaking about the jumping course I would say that it went as I expected. Erk was too excited and my handling was probably not so good, but at least we were not disqualified and were last (11th) who got the time, with 10 points though.
Going to the second run and agilitycourse we were like newborn team. I tried to be calm and lead the dog correctly and not to do sudden movements, that would lead to misinterpretation for the dog and it worked. One alarming thing was the see-saw, where Erk jumped off, but late enough that we didn't get fault for it. So it was pretty close call, that we got a clean run and first place and of course the CACIAG. Happy day, happy day!!!! Also our speed was on this course very good, though we had third fastest time, the gaps between the three of us were in 0,6 seconds. Not bad at all!!!

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Third course was simple agilitycourse and we went to run it with very positive emotions that we got from previous run. I was so satisfied that I didn't understand that judge hadn't given the permission to start but I started to run anyway. When we got near to the judge she stoped us and asked what we are doing, because she didn't whistle and give the permission to start. I would swear that I heard a whistle and saw her raising an arm. Anyway, she let us start again without minus points, but actually she had the right to disqualify us, so it was really a close call.
The run itself went quite well dispite the little misunderstanding and nervous situation. We got the third place with the third speed and again clean run.