Been playing in the snow. Starting to get caught up on stuff.

The World Dog Agility Championships in Helsinki, Finland are fast approaching. I'm very excited to be going again this year to take in all the action. My understanding is that agility is huge in Finland and the arena should be packed with fans. Should really add to the atmosphere. I'll be reporting throughout the weekend at http://fciagility2008.cleanrun.com The coverage won't be like last year due to various reasons I'm not really intimate with. The plan is to mainly report on the US and Canadian teams.

Agility Video Service is extremely happy to annouce that we will be providing complete coverage of the AKC / USA Dog Agility World Team Tryouts on May 2-4, 2008 being held in Hopkins, Minnesota. Approximately half of the gross reciepts will be going directly to support the team.

Here is a trailer video of Alphabet Drill Letter A by Nancy Gyes from Power Paws Live.

What is Power Paws Live? It is the brainchild of Nancy Gyes. A new website that has dog agility training videos on demand. This video is a trailer of Alphabet Drills - Letter A by Nancy Gyes. Letter A contains 20 exercises based off of the configuration of jumps you get when you "write" the letter "A". It is a very popular column in Clean Run magazine over the last two years.

You can find more information at Power Paws Live - Dog Agility Training Videos on Demand.

 

I was updating some code this morning and seems that something got screwed up. Where admin emails were being sent to every single user. I think I have fixed the problem, sorry for any inconvenience.

Eric

Bloopers from the recent USDAA trial hosted by DART. Featuring "Simon Says", "How are you?", "Help I'm stuck!", "Watch out kid!".

The Ghost Dog watch out for him at this weekends trial!

It’s kind of funny… I’ve got a bunch of 4H students these days. These kids are absolutely charming and a joy to teach. And, I find, they are more apt to actually check up on my web log than any of their parents being that most of them are more technologically savvy than their parents. As a consequence I find myself carefully watching my language and eschewing many of those grumpy not-very-politically-correct things for which I have a (mostly undeserved) reputation.

Along about last Friday I was discovered on AGILETEACH, a Yahoo discussion group for agility trainers. Well actually, my new work the Idea Book – Agility Training for a Small Universe was discovered. So my web store (www.dogagility.org/store) did about $500 in new business over the weekend. I’m already hard at work on the second volume; so it makes me feel pretty good to know that the first volume is getting a following.