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Here are the excellent courses from American Belgian Malinois Club show in MN from Jan 13-15, 2012

Indoors on dirt.  The club was terrific and had great workers.

Courses are below or you can look for PDF in the Carol’s Courses link (see right hand side of page)

Seem you often end up with repeated challenges when you design courses at the same time.  Appears this time for me, it was weave pole entries.   Sigh.

Fri Standard.  And….. the weave poles  did cause alot of the NQs.  The Offcourse after the dogwalk was NOT a major factor at this show.

SAT JWW:  The pinwheel area ended up looking different in real life than on paper…  It was tight area from 5-6 and dogs really had to collect.    But the dogs and handlers really handled it very well — the same sequence was in Open JWW (I tweaked jump 6 alittle) and the open dogs also did it very well.  Even the Big dogs!   Most of the NQs were at the weave pole entry.  The Q rate  for this course was pretty high for Ex B.

Sun Standard  ran nice but I felt it ran slower than I expected.  The off course chute was issue from 4-5.   People that really really worked dogwalk contact seemed to get an offcourse after dog walk.  I will guess that is because body language to work the contact set the wrong line.   Weave pole Entry caused some issues, even though the Open Standard dogs had same entry and did fine with it….  I was very happy to see that very few dogs left the weave poles early.  good for them.  Several dogs off coursed after 14.

Here are the excellent AKC Courses from SMKC Show on Dec 30,31 and Jan 1

Note the Dates on courses are from August — That is because this trial was cancelled in August due to Hurricane Irene and club was able to move the show to New Years Weekend…. I just used the courses from August.

Ex Standard, Fri Dec 30

click on pic below or for  PDF, SMKC-ES-082611

The only major issue on course was weave poles..

Ex JWW Sat Dec 31 (PDF: SMKC-EJ-082711)

Triple was dropped alot.  16″ class dropped #8 alot.  And the wrap — it came down to timing.

Ex STD  Sun Jan 1  (PDF: SMKC-ES-082811)

With short chute (not shown), we adjusted tunnel closer but it was a hard push for many to get dog from chute to tunnel.  All but one or two teams wrapped towards dogwalk (I really expected larger dogs to turn towards tunnel).

Due to speed, lots of dogs missed dogwalk contact.   The weave pole entry and/or staying in was issue for several teams.

Below are Steeplechase courses from OTA

You can also see via PDF
On Target Steeplechase Round 1: http://jumpfast.net/courses/OTA%20SAT%20STP%20Rd%201.pdf
On Target Steeplechase Finals: http://jumpfast.net/courses/OTA%20Steeplechase%20Finals.pdf

Other courses from On Target (Adv and Starters) are located under Carol’s Courses

On Target Agility Steeplechase Round 1

On Target Agility Steeplechase Finals

I will eventually get around to putting the PDFs up on site. Until then….Here is GIF. You can click on course to view it larger

Thurs Ex Std
Lots of issues with Weave Entry and Exit on this course. Some dogs were extended after Tire and took wrong course.

Fri Ex JWW
Dogs and handlers got this course; high EX B Q rate

Sat Ex Std
No Major issues; as EX B Q rate showed

Sun Ex JWW (Dances with Dogs; lots of crosses)
issues : lead out to 3 caused LOTS of extension and very hard turn to #4 ; harders rush 4-5, lots of people try to rear cross #13 on take-off side in the box and it just didn’t work well for MOST. Front cross or rear on landing (with layer of #5) worked better.