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Quote of the Month |
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To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Mark Nepo
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Exercise of the Month |
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Student Brags |
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Donna and Twink |
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Dear Abbie, 
Please allow me to brag about Twink, my whippet. We have been struggling with weave poles at atrial. She does them fast in class, but I think at a trial they become invisible <g>. So we have been concentrating my making my handling very clear and definite and increasing her confidence.
Well, at the Y Agility USDAA trial, she decided she can do weave poles at speed with a difficult entry on a Claire Schwartz Masters Snooker course AND she got a Super Q!
Thank you so much for clicking me to give Twink clear and early signals for the obstacles, for telling me to keep going no matter what obstacle Twink did, and for encouraging me to praise whatever pole performance I got and ignore the missed ones.
Twink is now running fast and focused, confident and happy, and I'm experiencing Perma-Grin!
Donna |
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Jen and Tommy |
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 Tommy ran in his very first AKC agility trial this past weekend. He had four terrific runs, and qualified once in Standard with a first place.
Our best run ever was a Jumpers With Weaves run on Saturday. I planned a bit of a tricky path, layering a jump and sending him ahead of me to a tunnel. He did it exactly, without a moment of hesitation. He hit his weave pole entry perfectly coming out of a pinwheel of jumps and did the poles exceptionally fast - wonderful since just a couple months ago he wasn't doing weave poles at all! He dropped a bar after the poles, but as we finished the course I couldn't believe the run was over! I was sure I'd forgotten something because it went so fast!
Standard course time was 49 seconds. Tommy ran it in less than half that time - 22.4 seconds! It was well over 90 degrees out, sunny, and humid, but Tommy still had lightning in feet and was more than happy and excited to get out there and show off his stuff.
Jennifer Madrid 8/29/07
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