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Wild Weavers 11/27/09
Nov. 27th, 2009 07:42 pmWent up to Wild Weavers in Ohio today to get a private lesson from Jenn Crank and do agility with several people from the "Junior" community. We took our private with Kelsey and Ace.
This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time, as I've felt my handling has become pretty stagnant. I am trying really hard to follow APHS and I think I've been doing a pretty good job, but you can only learn so much from reading about it and watching youtube videos XD
Jenn really helped to solidify some concepts for me and present new things that I hadn't thought about before. We now have a few exercises to work on which is awesome. I haven't been training too much on my own because frankly I just go out there and do random stuff that probably isn't all too productive. I just didn't know WHAT I needed to work on with Panic.
The best thing that Jenn explained to me (something I THOUGHT I had down pat) was putting an emphasis on motion rather than location. In a lot of places, lateral sends for example, I thought I was using motion pretty appropriately but now I see that it was primarily my location that was cueing the turn rather than my motion. When she broke it down and told me how to more effectively use motion, I totally got it and Panic read the turn a lot better. Definitely gives me something to work on.
The other thing she had to keep reminding me was the importance of verbals!! I am getting SO bad about this I don't know what to do. I need someone to scream at me to use a verbal. If I am not concentrating incredibly hard on using a verbal I won't use one. Oh well, until it becomes a cue that I am used to utilizing I will just have to concentrate really hard on using one.
Even though it is a really long drive and I am exhausted, I'm so glad I went. Not only did I learn a lot, but I also got to meet some awesome people and come out of my shell, if only a little bit. It was fun.
This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time, as I've felt my handling has become pretty stagnant. I am trying really hard to follow APHS and I think I've been doing a pretty good job, but you can only learn so much from reading about it and watching youtube videos XD
Jenn really helped to solidify some concepts for me and present new things that I hadn't thought about before. We now have a few exercises to work on which is awesome. I haven't been training too much on my own because frankly I just go out there and do random stuff that probably isn't all too productive. I just didn't know WHAT I needed to work on with Panic.
The best thing that Jenn explained to me (something I THOUGHT I had down pat) was putting an emphasis on motion rather than location. In a lot of places, lateral sends for example, I thought I was using motion pretty appropriately but now I see that it was primarily my location that was cueing the turn rather than my motion. When she broke it down and told me how to more effectively use motion, I totally got it and Panic read the turn a lot better. Definitely gives me something to work on.
The other thing she had to keep reminding me was the importance of verbals!! I am getting SO bad about this I don't know what to do. I need someone to scream at me to use a verbal. If I am not concentrating incredibly hard on using a verbal I won't use one. Oh well, until it becomes a cue that I am used to utilizing I will just have to concentrate really hard on using one.
Even though it is a really long drive and I am exhausted, I'm so glad I went. Not only did I learn a lot, but I also got to meet some awesome people and come out of my shell, if only a little bit. It was fun.