The judge was Jeremy Manno from Belgium.

04/04/2026

First agility went well. The weave pole entry was sublime, and I’m grateful that she stops on every contact, making this course much easier for us after the dog walk. The theme of the weekend is “failing opposite inverted jumps”…

Saturday’s jumping got me a little worried, as four bars fell to the ground. Luckily, she was just tired.

05/04/2026

My favorite course is the agility on Sunday, difficult and beautiful, with long lines and tons of options and tactics. Leaving her on the seesaw, not even looking back, and releasing her right after I heard it hit the ground was like caviar on toast.

She took the hardest weave pole entry of the weekend like it was nothing, but missed almost every opposite inverted jump. We have work to do!

This competition is used to select the dogs from Luxembourg that will go to the Agility World Championship, but it is also open to anyone who wants to participate.

28/03/2026

The judge was Laura Grosser from Germany.

I loved this course. I feel like I took all the right options and executed almost everything perfectly, except at the end. We ended up in 6th place.

This jumping course was a lot harder than the agility. My handling was less precise, and we failed several sequences.

I was also a bit worried because she limped slightly after the agility. The limp disappeared soon after, but it was still concerning. I asked the judge and friends around the ring to watch for any issues and stop me if needed.

The judge was Marleen Haeneefstingels from Belgium.

14/03/2026

My stress level was unusually high, no matter what I did, and Kaïa, being an emotional sponge, was also nervous and stressed. The result was catastrophic: I didn’t handle her properly, and she didn’t listen anyway.

15/03/2026

I took the time to get rid of the stress and get Kaïa out of the car at the very last minute to warm her up and run so she doesn’t stay in the ambient stress. I don’t really like this process, but it’s better not to have her fully stressed in the ring.

It didn’t change the results, as we finished this first weekend with nothing but disqualifications. But at least it felt like a normal competition.