A motivational day

On Friday I had the great fortune to again be under the instruction of Susan Garrett. We worked through some double-box exercises using Greg Derrett's method of handling. It clarified a lot for me; reminded me how sloppy I was being; and showed up some huge gaps in my training. It felt so beneficial to have Susan's eye reminding me to be consistent; and pointing out where and when I wasn't being. Oh to have her critical eye assessing you and reminding you to be a better trainer more often! It was good to have a number of the people I regularly train with there too though, as we can now pick on each other and push each other to be more consistent and to set our goals higher. The entire day motivated me to sit down and plan out a training schedule for myself and my dogs again. It was also evident that I need to make the effort to video my training sessions much more often; as well as my competitive runs, that way I can see when my timing sucks or where my position was off.
Priorities include: improving the timing of my turns; working and testing my 270s; testing my dogs independence in the weaves and on their contacts; and of course, ramping up the "fun" factor; all training sessions need to be short, hard, fast and fun! Put the time into preparing the session and evaluating the session; the session itself is short and snappy.