Practicing Weaves
I realized that since Riot has learned his weaves and we dropped the contact and weaves class we haven’t done a lot of weave pole training. Since the last thing I want to do is have to relearn the weaves, we worked on them in short sessions all weekend.
I’ve only worked him maybe twice outside of class since we learned them and what I observed the last time was he was having issues with collection once there was a jump placed in front of the poles. I had planned on working on this with him this weekend, but we seemed to be having other problems. We’re having completion problems, but it’s not the same problem every time. I think a lot of it had to do with the poles not being staked down and moving on him. And that the base of our poles is the old style with the T on both end and not the new akc style. I think of lot of what was throwing him off was hitting that base today.
I moved the weave poles a few feet at one point today in hoping to find flatter ground with hopefully less wobble. When I moved them, the first set was overlapping the second by a good inch (that was all Riot’s doing). I think with more repetition, he’ll get more consistent. At this point I don’t want to do anything to discourage him because I like the speed I’m getting out of him.
We need to practice more, but I think I’m going to have to start staking down the poles (ugh) and may even need to consider getting another set of weaves. Chris is gonna love both those things.
