Team – Ins and Outs

USDAA Clear Mind 2018-01-13

On the weekend of the 13/14th of January I took Twitch and Vader to the USDAA Tournament-only trial at Daisy Peel’s place. Couldn’t beat the view! Chilly mornings but the days warmed up and were stunning for January.

Twitch tried Team for the first time pairing with Heather and Navarre. He did so well! So proud of the little guy. He has been there before but not for competition. He ran well for me and had lots of Qs and gave me a lot of himself. Very pleased with him.

Vader and I did Team with April/Josie and Molly/Moxie. Vader was a rock star! He got lots of points and ran very well. We also tried Grand Prix for the first time. We didn’t Q due to a refusal or two but that is ok. All the rest of his runs were really fantastic. He got first place in Steeplechase and won $10! He did very well in a new place on the nice turf there.

Vader’s USDAA Runs 2017-10-13

He still bounds around instead of running in my opinion. Very much a bouncy boy still. 🙂

Team Jumpers
https://youtu.be/mIlYr98XCrY
This was a good run. I totally didn’t see the off course jump and didnt do anything about it as a result. But he had a great weave pole entrance!

Team Snooker
https://youtu.be/pQjXmtc0o2M
Tied with 3 other dogs for most points and was second fastest dog! Go baby dog!

Team Standard
https://youtu.be/YdOlE1wk1YI
I am not sure why he didnt commit to that jump near the end but the rest was lovely! Lots of dogs got lost at the tunnel next to the aframe from both sides!

Team Gamblers
https://youtu.be/zmKUf5lD1Sc
Got a little greedy on points and missed the buzzer but he had never seen a wall jump and didn’t hesitate at all!

Team Relay
https://youtu.be/e4lYcZAwHMc
Good stuff here! Great stay and nice run!

Advanced Gamblers
https://youtu.be/MhXe-JcL-MU
I was sure we would have trouble with this gamble but baby dog pulled through!

Starters Standard
https://youtu.be/m5t4Wn3XM6Q
Lovely run. His weaves were great all weekend! Need to work that aframe contact a bit more. Not a fan of all the creeping I saw this weekend.

Starters Jumpers
https://youtu.be/s_I3z36RT9A
He was great on this run! They recorded our time wrong so we were not the second fastest dog, by a lot. Lol didn’t matter because that off course jump killed our Q anyway. Everything was good but you can really see the bouncy puppy in the beginning. 🙂

We placed second in Team on Friday with April and Zippy and Libbi and Tosca. Two tournament Qs down for the baby dog just getting into Advanced!

First USDAA Team Event!

Tomorrow Vader and I try our hand at USDAA Team. We partner with two other handlers and their dogs to form a team. We are the Motley Crew. Libbi Peltz with Tosca and April Meyer with Zip. Our scores are added up over 4 classes, Standard, Gamblers, Jumpers and Snooker. Then we run a 3 person relay for final points.

The courses are judged at Masters level and have a bit of Masters and Master Challenge in them. We do great on courses like that in practice so it will be fun to see how we do in a trial. Vader needs another Starters Standard Q before we can move up to Advanced.

Sunday both Vader and Twitch will get to run Tunnelers! I can’t wait to see what Vader does with all tunnels! Lol