Amadeus Cup
Another La-Bu-Bi-Le video from a trial last weekend in Salzburg at horse show, with (real) gold to win 🙂
They again did just GREAT, I'm especially proud of Bi and Le who were consistently setting best times and would have both won the finals too if I didn't choose Bu vs. Bi when they met in semi-finals and I needed to choose one to run for 3rd place and one to run for 1st place against Lisa&Hoss... Should have chosen Bi who had one fault, but since those were transferred to 2s, she was fast enough to still win... - oh well! I wish all her bars would be transferred to 2s, we would be brilliant then!!! 🙂 But I guess Le's 1st place, Bu's 2nd and Bi's 3rd is still good enough 🙂 I do need to learn to have more trust in Bi though! Here are some videos:
Wow, your GOLDEN girls are unbeatable 🙂 Congratulations!! … so impressive to watch!!!!!
Wonderful to watch 🙂
Since I love handling analysis, could you explain why on the course where Le got best time of all jump heights ( 🙂 way to go wee girl!) you did a blind after chute jump for everyone except Bi? Do you think the FC with Bi cost you that bar? or was that just a hard distance for Bi?
Oh and for us US people…what is that BEEP in the finals? was the final based on two small courses..best combined time? or were those elimination rounds?
Congrats on such an impressive showing.
With Bi, I do less blinds as she knocks more with blinds as with fronts… But she knocks with FCs too 🙂 Here, I think it was a combination of slipping after the chute + late FC. We normally don’t start on a beep either 🙂 but on this trial, in finals, there were two dogs at the same time running the same course and you had to start after the 5th beep (that’s when the time started). It was very stressful for me, I prefer to focus on a dog as to count beeps 🙂 I started too early a couple of times, one time is on a video (with Le), but you got additional 2s for early start (+ your time started as you crossed the line, not after 5th beep) and she was still fast enough to win with that extra 2s 🙂 We ran each of the two courses like 5+ times as you ran against another dog and then the winner ran against the winner of the next pair etc. so those of us who got to finals ran it many times, but I don’t have it all on video (nor want to bore everybody with it 🙂 ).
Ha Ha…I was thinking that I certainly would be stressed listening to that beep! Now knowing you had to count too…the heart rate would surly spike. Very interesting way of running a competition that we don’t see here. Thanks for the explanation.
We ran it that way the 1st time too. I didn’t like the beeping part, but I LOVED the extra 2s instead of faults part -- Bi says FAST is underestimated and that agility should always be ran that way! She can take extra 2 or 4s any time 🙂
ok…So now you know what’s the next trick to teach…Learn to count 5 bips to the dogs
I can watch this video a thousand times…it is so amazing to see somebody reach that level with 4 different dogs of 2 different sizes…Respect!
I think Le learned it already… And started to cheat 🙂 I LOVE running with 4 dogs -- at least one will do great 🙂 -- But I sure did lots of running in those finals… I think I ran something like 40 times! NOT easy to warm up and cool down the dogs!
Silvia, I didn’t realize the rules were so different than ours…. with the beeps and the run offs! I wish we had run offs for finals over here! Anyway, I am totally impressed and in awe of your threadles….. awesome!
something strange going on with the comments….. getting warnings???
Hm, I don’t see it… Tried to reset something, are you still getting the warnings?
Hi Silvia, I’m getting these warnings too…but only when I’m logged in. Here’s a JPEG of what the above comments look like.
Working on the problem right now!
Yep….. it shows up when I post, above whatever I posted….. this is what it says
“Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /domains/lolabuland.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/lib/class.core.php on line 470 and defined in /domains/lolabuland.com/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 990”
and then right after that, my post starts!
It was just this trial that was ran under those rules -- never ran it that way before. It was on a big horse show and they tried to make a show out of it. And yes, my dogs read threadles really well as as you can see, we see them a lot 🙂
Ahhh….. I see. I am hoping to pick up some threadle skills from you, for both Jimmy and Bode:))))) Even though we don’t see them that often here!
Great runs! Bu looks faster and faster in any new agility video of her I see! Just one question: what do you think of a competition like this where money are involved? I know you are definitely not the kind of person that might forget about the dog and the fun of agility in order to win to get money, but we all know there are people that do so. So what is your final judgement of this kind of competition? Did you see many of them, or people stressing more about results? thanks a lot in advance
I think if money was involved on all competitions, we might be seeing some bad consequences like people changing dogs, thinking that’s the secret to success etc. -- but for just one such competition, nobody would do something like this and I didn’t see anybody being unfair to their dogs. The judging was fair too. When there was a competition in Milan years ago also with money involved, we saw some strange judging, like Lo getting a fly-off for the see-saw that was done (should have been 1st otherwise) and even more interestingly, Bu getting 3s (THREE!) more in one run as I timed it on computer (should have been 2nd otherwise) -- I wouldn’t even noticed if I only got 1 extra second, but I of course got suspicious why she got beaten by dogs who NEVER beat her in her life, despite a perfectly nice run, so I timed it at home and it was exactly 3s less 🙂
Oh well, I see Italy ( my country ) always does is best to look unfair and biased 😐 usually just “people with power” behave this way, common people does not, but of course a bad behaviour from somebody with a important role is noticed more. I suppose it was the Trofeo Frontline in Monza, right? I’m sorry they were so unfair with you!
However, I understand your point, probably just one competition with money involved does not make many damages. I just wish it won’t become a trend! Thanks so much for answering 🙂
Oh, and last question: what about your other website? Don’t you update it anymore?
Yeah, one website is keeping me busy enough… And I like this one as it’s more interactive.