A lot of people are talking about Jenny Damm right now after the World Championship. If you’re wondering what all the hubbub is about I’d suggest taking some time to listen to Bad Dog Agility’s podcast giving a great rundown on the event. The main thing people are talking about is how much Jenny Damm’s […]
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Spoiler alert: The stuff you do outside of the ring matters just as much (or more) than what happens in it.
It’s Dog Agility Blog Action Day and the topic is “Outside the Ring”. Unshockingly, it’s given me a reason to rant. I rant a lot. But, well, why the hell else have a blog, amirite? I have ended up annoyed at just about every agility event I’ve ever gone to. There’s usually a number of […]
Summer trialling update
So I left off my last post with a weird little proclamation about how I was going to look at running Mufaasa, and a hopeful note about how Raafi’s confidence in competition has come along. I’ve attended a few trials since then and the results have been mixed, but generally good. I’m really in a strange […]
Defining Success and Failure, and how they sometimes end up being the same thing
As usual the Dog Agility Blog Action Day topic has given me an opportunity to talk about something in a way I might not have planned. The subject this time is “Success”, a sometimes nebulous concept to try and define, especially in the moment after you stumble out of the ring. It just so happens that […]
Defining Success and Failure, and how they sometimes end up being the same thing
As usual the Dog Agility Blog Action Day topic has given me an opportunity to talk about something in a way I might not have planned. The subject this time is “Success”, a sometimes nebulous concept to try and define, especially in the moment after you stumble out of the ring. It just so happens that […]
Leave the Ring Nerves out of the ring. Yes, it’s that easy, and that hard.
As a child I was very shy. Anyone who knows me now will likely find that surprising. These days I am fairly comfortable in my skin, liberal, and frankly quite shameless (much to my friends’ discomfort). But as a kid I was very quiet, and often happy to be left in my own little world. […]
It’s Agility Blogger Action Day! This time we’re talking about “Ways to Improve Agility Organizations”
It’s that time again for Agility Blogger Action Day, where all us dog agility bloggers get together to have opinions about the same thing, like talkative synchronized swimmers (but with dogs), for your enjoyment. Full disclosure: I have been competing for less than a year. Before that I liked agility, but certainly wasn’t versed in it beyond “Dog goes […]
First two trials of the season. Same venue, incredibly different results. So…business as usual, it would seem.
Ugh, this is the problem with competing. You can be prepared, you can be on your game, your dog can be on his, and you can still wind up sucking. I mean, I can handle having a bar or two down, or an off course. I’m trying to run my dog with speed, and with […]
And I died again.
Maybe I should just state for the record that I will likely be going on hiatus for every winter for the rest of my life from blogging. Not because I don’t have the time, but because I generally spend the winter concentrating all of my energy on how much I hate the cold, ice, snow, […]
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