The judge was Marilyn Lemoine from France.

Last Saturday, we were at Domvast for a Hooper competition. Hooper is not yet a standardized international sport, but the French Hoopers is close to the Belgian. Our dogs were not lost at all.
There is one main difference: in levels 0 and 1, your dog must go across the box. At first, I did not understand why. But after this competition, I realized that it makes it easier to control your dog and make it change direction. It’s a great tool to teach young dogs and build good habits.

For the first course, Kaïa was super exited to meet a new place and people, and she kind of not listened to me for the first 2/3 obstacles. Granted, I could have predicted that and been more present to help her.

There are way more gates in those courses, and we don’t train much on them. Something to change.

The last course was way better; she still struggled to find the first gate but cleared the rest with ease.

The judge was Tamara Cuypers from Belgium.

First official Hooper competition of the year.
The first run was flawless.

Three faults on the second run, we don’t get a point to move to H2. We do need to work more on the cross.

The judge was Tamara Cuypers from Belgium.

Like last year, an unofficial Hooper competition was organized at Lys Foolies.

For the first run, it comes down to control, making the dog turn properly, then pushing it into the last Hoop. Kaïa executed that flawlessly!

The second run was a tunnel festival. I didn’t push her correctly to the second barrel creating a fault.

The team run was a little harder (all teams run the same course regardless of the dog level). The main difficulty was to be able to push the dog on the last barrel and take the last hoop.
We did it flawlessly!

Some training on a H2 course.