tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post938056484520628918..comments2024-01-08T01:20:20.736-07:00Comments on Days of Speed and Slowtime Mondays: Run Lola RunElaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734583197185810124noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-44749621189573754562008-08-19T08:50:00.000-06:002008-08-19T08:50:00.000-06:00"One thing about not keeping your hand up all the ..."One thing about not keeping your hand up all the time is that maybe the dog can pay less attention to you and feel more confident about being faster and doing the obstacles."<BR/><BR/>Absolutely! It's funny, I didn't realize I'm running with my hand up all the time, it was something Joy pointed out to me (I'm pretty sure Stacy pointed this out to me ages ago as well). She's been awesome about pointing out bad habits that I don't even realize I have. Now if I can just remember not to do them now that I know what they are.<BR/><BR/>DOCNA courses are just like old school NADAC courses before they dumbed them down for the bonus boxes. They're a lot of fun and some of the clubs are replacing their NADAC trials with DOCNA trials. It's great as well to see some of the top handlers that stopped doing NADAC coming back out of the woodwork to do DOCNA. There are 2 really good handlers from my training field that are also going to DOCNA Champs this year, one of them being someone like me who'd been to USDAA Nationals for a couple of years but chose DOCNA this year instead because it's so much fun.Elaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734583197185810124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345288.post-68948733880550124312008-08-18T21:35:00.000-06:002008-08-18T21:35:00.000-06:00Sounds like DOCNA courses have more wide-open runn...Sounds like DOCNA courses have more wide-open running straight out sequences than USDAA usually does at the masters level? That was one thing that I always thought was fun in NADAC, just turning on the dogs' afterburners and figuring out how to manage that while enjoying their speed.<BR/><BR/>One thing about not keeping your hand up all the time is that maybe the dog can pay less attention to you and feel more confident about being faster and doing the obstacles. Good luck with that. It never stops, finding what you're not doing optimally and trying to fix it!<BR/><BR/>-ellenElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01827436807468320435noreply@blogger.com