Last night our instructor set up an Excellent JWW course.  It is one of the most frustrating courses I've seen in a long time.  Dusty and I never did get the various bits and pieces right, and I'm looking forward to setting the course up in my yard soon so we can work on it.  Luckily, Ed was there to video the whole thing so I was able to watch it today in slow motion, and I learned a lot.

When I ran Libby on this same course, it went much smoother because she is slower and we have worked together longer.  Our first time through, we had only one glitch--I dropped my arm and she crossed behind me while I was trying to race her to the tunnel opening the second time.  Watching the tape, I can see how she could interpret the dropped arm as an invitation to come in.  Our second attempt was a "qualifying" run.

The major problem on this course for Dusty and me was at the second jump after the tire.  I picked the landing side for the placement of my FX for Dusty because I didn't think I could get to the take off side in time.  I forgot to let Dusty know I was doing a FX until it was waaay too late and I tried to compensate for that mistake with volume--not pretty.  After class, we spent a lot of time working this section with only moderate success.The other sticky part of the course was the jump after the triple.  Dusty insisted upon head-checking and curving into me before taking the triple.  Libby did not have that problem, and she also took the triple closer to its right wing which put her on a better path to the next jump.

Most of my other problems on the course with Dusty stemmed from being late in indicating where we were going.