A Great Agility Weekend

Tamber & Colin both competed in the NADAC Agility Trial at Hollins College March 21-22 2009. They had a great time and came home with a load of ribbons.

This was Tamber's 3rd year and she had her best trial ever. She competed in 8 events and had 4 Qualifying runs. (a Qualifying run earns points toward a title) She had 3 - 1st Place finishes and 3 - 2nd Place finishes (competing against other dogs entered at the Novice level with an 8" jump height).

This was Colin's first Agility Trial. He had a blast! He entered 4 events and had 3 Qualifying runs. He had 2 - 2nd Place and 2 - 3rd Place finishes. He competed against Tamber in all 4 events and always finished one place behind her. He actually beat her time by over 4 seconds in the Touch N Go event but finished in 3rd behind her 2nd place (and did not Qualify) because he was so excited he jumped off the A-frame too soon and missed the required contact zone.

Below are video's of some of the events:
(if you click on the title of the video or the link below the video you can see it in a slightly larger format on the Vimeo site)


Colin's Touch & Go Run from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.


Colin's Jumpers Run from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.


Colin's Tunnelers Run from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.


Tamber Touch N Go from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.


Tamber Chances Run from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.


Tamber's Jumpers Run from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.


Tamber's Regular Agility Run from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.

Finally, we have to remember that Agility is supposed to be fun and despite hard training, the results are unpredictable - you have to keep a sense of humor as illustrated by one of our classmates:

Agility does not always go as planned from Byron Dillard on Vimeo.