18/04/2025

The judge was Thomas Ebeling from Germany.

Courses were really nice and well construct. Kaïa still struggle to do outs properly, but it’s getting a bit better.
I handled this jumping poorly, the first failure threw me off. She also took a lots of bar, which concerned me a little.

3 bars, 1 refusal. But we are not disqualified. I hope she will handle her jumps better, because this are a lot of bars. Now I just scream “out“, she seems to understand it better. We end up at the 9 places.

19/04/2025

The judge was Sina Just from Germany.

We are disqualified on a discrimination, I should have paused a bit to make sure she took the cat walk. But she took the outs properly each time, I was super happy about that.

This jumping was a suboptimal performance for me. The weave pole refusal is for me, I should have decreased my speed better. I failed a lot of stuff.

20/04/2025

The judge was Sina Just from Germany.

I was confused to see my dog on my right before the tunnel. I assumed that she skipped the jump, but I saw the judge only declaring a fault. I was confused and just disqualified myself. The rest of the course is a mess.

Disqualified on the last jump!
I didn’t properly show the out. It was a bit chaotic at times, but she did everything right.

21/04/2025

The judge was Thomas Ebeling from Germany.

2 faults, 3rd place, and first grade 3 podiums for us!

Disqualified, but I’m super happy about the handling of this very fast course. I was behind all the time, and she still followed the course without hesitation.

This is our third time at Charleville-Mézière!
Our first time was when we were in grade 1, at the agility by night, the second time in grade 2, and this time in grade 3!

Now, I’m disappointed by our performance this weekend. We are almost always disqualified on the same error: our inability to do outs properly.

Otherwise, a nice competition, nice courses, nice peoples and in special guest: the sun!

05/04/2025

The judge was Hervé Chaillou from France.

Disqualified because I had to help her on the out after the A-frame.

Disqualified on at the out after the long jump. She doesn’t do it properly whenever she needs to put in a little effort.

Again, out, missing it and disqualified. We also never succeeded in finishing the weave pole, and we are not the only ones; this is incredibly difficult for the dogs. My theory is that they somehow feel like they are going into the tunnel that is near, and they get out at some point.

06/05/2025

The judge was Vincent Montaigné from France.

The second jump was an out, and guess what? She didn’t do it properly. Yes, I don’t show it well because I need to run forward to handle the long jump.
This was the third time in a row that we were disqualified for the same mistake, this time on the second jump. I was really disappointed and annoyed; the rest of the run was a mess and a collection of failure.

At least she did a two-out sequence and succeeded.

This time, she failed to do the In, again on the second jump. The thing is, I’m not the only one building frustration; Kaïa is also questioning what she did wrong.

We failed to handle the weave pole, she happily ran into the tunnel, and I completely failed to correct it. Other than that, we cleared the rest of the course nicely, and she even managed to do a difficult out.

This time, we are disqualified on a tunnel discrimination. This is more normal, I guess. Nice weave pole entry!

The judge was Marleen Haeneefstingels from Belgium.

14/03/2025

The first jumping was a mess, and we failed so many things.

The agility was a bit messy but better and it’s our first grade 3 were we are not disqualified. It’s something…

15/03/2025

That was a hell of a jumping, I got 2 miracles at the end of the hall, where she took both jumps (almost) only with verbal commands. But I was too late to help her clear the dead jump and she took it.

Believe it or not, this is one of my favorite courses of the weekend. It’s very challenging and requires a lot of precision and control to send your dog in the right direction. Of course, you have to do this with the dog being accelerated by the tunnels.

16/03/2025

This seesaw! Amazing control.
There is a lot of good behavior, I also noted that she controls her speed right before entering the weave pole.

We are disqualified on the last jump, I forgot to call her before pushing forward. I pushed forward and she obliged.

I said nothing about the tire… She did not take the tire…