Weave

During Teka's class, D answered some questions about rules for AKC Excellent A and B levels, which are quite different from Novice A and B levels. In Novice, A is only for a handler AND dog who have no agility titles. Once that threshold is crossed, the handler is in B, never to enter A again. In Excellent, all dogs go through the A level, and once completed, start the B level. There is a little more to it and the rules for Excellent titling can be found on page 25 of the rule book.

She also talked a little about USDAA pairs. She wasn't as sure of her knowledge of the rules, but essentially, titles can be obtained without getting a lot of pairs titles. Moving into Advanced (P2) can potentially be done with only one Starter (P1) Pairs Q, along with the 3 Qs for each of the other classes (Standard, Gamblers, Snooker, and Jumpers.) She did say that I should consider doing lots of pairs with Teka at the Starter (P1) level since she will need more Pairs Qs when she gets to Master (P3) level. She thought the other instructor, A, would be able to help me find appropriate (under control) P1 dogs to run with.

Our first sequence was channel weaves with a tunnel directly out from one end, a jump to the left of each end, and an angled jump to the other end away from the tunnel. The second sequence was 2 jumps in an arc into the weave-o-matic weaves, to the left going into the far end of the tunnel, coming out to a jump on the other side of the weaves, to a parallel set of 6 weaves, over a jump, back into the first set of weaves, into the near end of the tunnel to the left, and back into the weaves. Last, we worked on the 4 pole weave entry. Teka had fun and did pretty well.