The EO 2011 was taken place in Bad Hall, Austria. The organization started OK. Two courses for practice on friday, nice place for competing, no problems with registration… On Friday we started with the practice. Veni did great. Fast contacts, great turns, fast runs, the bars stayed up,…  On Saturday we started with individual agility. She had pretty fast A-frame (for Veni), but almost a refusal and a slow dogwalk. But clean run anyway. So it was not a surpise that the time was not that great.

So the jumping was the next chance to come to the finals. And Veni is really fast in jumping, so I knew that that was our chance. But again I made a mistake and she almost entered the wrong tunnel. But I managed to call her off and we had a clean run and 11. place.

So we were in the finals. But I was worried about Veni’s slow A-frame (we were placed on 74. place after the individual agility). And since she does not remember the running contacts from the last year, I didn’t know how to speed her up. And then I had remembered that we sometimes “trained” that she runs between my legs after the A-frame. The course was just the right one for that. So I decided to risk it. And we had a nice run and a fast A-frame. And 5. place in the end. I think great result, considering that we ran in heavy rain, bad lights and at 10:30PM…

We had some great results from the finals. In small Daša Zakotnik&Katka were 6., in medium Polona Bonač&Šja were 2. and Zoltan Pap&Pilko were 10. Congrats to all!

On Sunday we started in Team jumping. We went second from our team and I got disqualified (the only run that was not clean in the championship). Our team had only one clean run from the jumping.

The last run was the Team agility. Another clean run for me and Veni (but again a small mistake). But pretty fast contacts.

After the team runs team finals started. It’s was something new on the competition – a relay race. I didn’t like that idea at first. And then I saw the course – and I liked it even less. But it was fun to watch (I quess I would not think the same if I had to run it). The small/medium team started. Slovenia had one team in the finals. At first we only saw disqualifications. But then some runs with mistakes. Then the Slovenian team ran. Clean run!!! And only the team from Finland was faster at the end. So second place for Silvia Trkman&La, Polona Bonač&Šja, Daša Zakotnik&Katka and Zoltan Pap&Pilko. Congrats guys!!!

The EO 2012 will take place in Sweden. It’s a little far, but we will try to go.

I would like to thank the photographers (Iztok Noč, Maja Rokavec, Blayo San, Tanja Gril,…) for taking such beautiful pictures of me and Veni.

Veni’s perfect start of the season still continues. Here are the results from the last agility competitions:

KD AGILITY ILIRIA  (9.7.): 0. penalties: 3 place (1. place in AWC qualification)

KD BARJE (2.7.): disk (AWC qualification)

KD ZAGORJE (25.6.): 10. penalties: 13. place

KD LJUBLJANA (11.6.): 28,46. penalties (LOL): 24. place (AWC qualification)

ŠKD LJUTOMER KRIŽEVCI (4.6.): 0. penalties: 3. place

KD MARIBOR (28.5.): 5. penalties: 3. place (2. place in AWC qualification)

KD SLOVENSKA BISTRICA (21.5.): 0. penalties: 3. place (3 place in EO and AWC qualification)

KD PLUTON (14.5.): 5. penalties: 6. place

KD DUPLICA (7.5.): disk (EO qualification)

KD PTUJ (23.4.): 0. penalties: 1. place (1. place in EO and AWC qualification)

The competition in Kd Agility Ilirija was the last for the AWC 2011. Veni and I were placed on 3. place in EO qualifications and 2. place in qualifications for Agility World Championship 2011!  So we are going to Bad Hall and Liévin!!!

In between all of the agility competition we found the time to go to frisbee competition (Ashley Whippet International). I entered Veni and AC for Toss&Catch, Dogdartbee and Time Trial. And they were perfect. Veni was 5. in Toss&Catch, 2. in Dogdartbee and 2. in Time Trial.

AC had some bad luck catching frisbees in Toss&Catch. But she did well in Time Trial (6. place) and Dogdartbee, where we made it to semifinals.

The spring brought the begining of agility season here in Slovenia. And the start couldn’t be better. So far we only had 2 agility competition (in spring time) and we went on both of them with Veni and she was just perfect. First was in Gornja Radgona (16.4.2011). Two clean runs and second place.

The second one was in Ptuj the next weekend. It was the first for the national championship and world championship qualification and second qualification for EO. Two clean runs again and first place. I think we should get to the EO with that win. Here is a picture of Veni having fun on the course:

The next day ŠD Flipsi organised frisbee competition. I entered with Veni and AC. Veni competed in Time Trial and Superminidistance Open. We only had one round of that because of bad weather conditions and my throws were really bad. We ended on 6. place in Time Trial and 7. place in Superminidistance. But little AC shined that day. She competed in Time Trial and Superminidistance Novice. Because we were a little bit confused we had 3 throws in Time Trial.

And again pretty bad first round of Superminidistance. But the second round was just perfect (21,5 points).  We came in on second place with a three-way tie. We should do another throw but nobody wanted because of the storm. So the judges placed AC and me on the second place (because of better throws I think).

You can see the results from the frisbee competition here: klik

Because of Veni’s slow 2on-2off contacts, I decided to try to teach AC running contacts (by Silvia Trkman). So here we are at the moment:

At the moment the main thing is that we are having so much fun doing it. AC just loves it (and because of that so do I).

9.3.2010:

One year later:

Happy Birthday, little AC!