Even More Training

We have had a bit of bad weather over the past week so it has limited the mount of training we have been doing. I took Kody to the Dave Munnings training day which was an enjoyable afternoon. Kody worked well and I came away knowing I need to work on my timing and think about where i'm pointing my arms and shoulders.

We didn't make it to club training on wednesday as I was working but I did take Heidi to training on Thursday. She coped well with doing 2 hours although she slept well once we got home! She listed well and had almost no screaming and the only poles were my fault (timing and shoulders!)

Yesterday we had a really enjoyable day. We were joined here by lots of other Mali's (and a few non mali's) to do some training. Jo bought Ronny, Keisha and Zippy, Natalie bought Kiros & Reno and Jackie bought Speedy, Leo, Jake and Brindle. We did a few hours training in the morning, where again I need to work on my timing and shoulders (reoccurring theme here?!) and with Heidi I need to not be in a hurry to rush off and keep quiet unless necessary. It is useful to train with people who have experience in the same breed as you as Mali's don't run like Collie's.


We had some lunch and then took our 12 dogs for a walk. Out of the 12 though, guess which 2 were the only to to get wet? That would have to be Brian and Heidi who were so smelly and muddy by the time we got home!


We don't have anything else booked now but tomorrow I plan to get back down to the paddock and do some more, I'm feeling a bit more motivated now. I have also ordered some new spacing 2x2 weaves as I plan to re train Heidi's weaves, probably over Christmas, she was the only one to never fully do 2x2 and having seen the others weaves improve loads I think she will benefit from it. Must chase up the see-saw too, it still hasn't arrived!