There was a USDAA trial last weekend in Tucson. Since I was the show chair and my club gives me free entries to the show, I entered Jaldi in every class that didn't (or probably wouldn't) have a teeter. So we ran Gamlbers, Snooker, Jumpers, Relay, and PSJ. Jaldi is in P1 in all runs. She Q'd in Relay and Jumpers. This video is Round 1 of Performance Speed Jumping. There were about 130 dogs entered between Stpl and PSJ. We went tall to small to Jaldi was near the end. I watched dog after dog after dog pop the 10th weavepole. Why? Many were very experienced dogs. The handler fading over towards the next jump should not have caused them a problem, yet they popped. I don't have video of the popping. I just have Jaldi's beautiful, perfect video. Can you tell I'm a proud mom?

The second entrance to the weave poles was reminiscent of Lesson 19 Ex 3. I saw one handler do the FX/RX manuever. That was Roger Coor with Moso. Since we hadn't tried Ex 3, yet, I did not attempt it in this run with Jaldi. However, we tried Ex 3 tonight at home and Jaldi was not phased at all! However, I think it slowed her down a tad.

There were at least 8 Q's in 12" PSJ Round 1. Half of them were Border Terriers. Of course, I'm not bragging about the breed. We got 4th place in Round 2. I think I handled a little too conservatively. No video as there was a videographer malfunction for Round 2.

Val