2 Chances in One Weekend!

I was very pleased that Wyatt and I earned 2 NADAC Chances qualifying legs (Qs) this weekend!  We went 0 to 5 this year so far but had many near Qs.   I was getting discouraged that we could ever earned a NADAC championship (NATCH) since we needed 8 more and were getting so few.  We passed the half way mark and now need 6 more.  What seemed to be working was me both keeping the next thing in mind as well as the present position while maintaining contact and communication with Wyatt.  Saturday was a traditional looking course with a send out to tunnel/dogwalk discrimination (tunnel was the course) a turn around/switch send back out to the dogwalk with a hoop after the dogwalk and then turning back to me and the line.  No problems with that course.  Sometimes we have trouble getting down to the bottom of the dogwalk at a distance and/or getting the next jump/hoop after that since he stops on the contact.

Sunday was unusual with a send out to a bunch of jumps with a tempting off course tunnel straight ahead with the course turning back over the line.  Then you had to send the dog back across the line and to a little 1/2 pinwheel (again with the other end of the tunnel very tempting) and out at a distance back to some weaves and the final hoop.  Again, I seemed to do all the right things until the send back over the line when I said “tunnel” when I meant jump.  Luckily, he stopped in confusion and I was able to send him to the correct tunnel from standstill.

Very happy!  There is hope!