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Well Yoshi is now in Tuesday nights competition level class..and I am really excited. I really benefit by seeing other dogs and handlers accomplish the exercises with ease (for the most part..haha) and now Rachel can really nitpick on my handling and get us ready for Yoshi's start. We did a jumpathon for the first lesson. We did lots of different jump exercises..with the last one being excruiciatingly hard! Yoshi and a terrier named Bailey got it on their first try.. but both of our second tries...not so great! We are starting to jump Yoshi 14" now to get him ready to start jumping 16". I am a bit worried because he doesnt clear the bar with a lot of room and I hope he doesnt start getting too lax over jumps. He only knocked a couple down, but still..just hope it doesnt become a nasty habit. Of course, when we start out in Novice, the courses and turns wont be quite so tight so we should be ok. After the lesson, I did some weave and teeter work (the two things Yoshi is not doing 100% yet) I got to crank down the channel weaves more than ever and he got them every single time.. he was attacking them and really moving. We only did a small teeter once, I know he can get this obstacle down..I just havent started moving him up on it. I really need to concentrate on these two obstacles and get them down. Other than that, just working on a few discriminations (tunnel/a frame/dogwalk/etc)

Thats all for now!!