Last night Jonah and I had a fun (as usual) class. He was back to his rowdy, loud mouth, fast and furious self. I really don't have that much to say about it, but here's a quick review.
The first course was fun, and we were running beautifully until I tried to make things more difficult than I needed to. It started with a teeter to a serpentine that he ran smoothly with tight lines. His DW contact looked good. His table down was fast and he held it well. Then we had a 90 degree on side weave entry (the hardest angle for him), which I decided to then rear cross. He got the entry but then looked back for me as I crossed behind him and he popped out. Whoops. The rest of the course ran great.
The second course was a little more complicated, but we still ran it well. The first time through we had two slightly sticky patches, but overall he was fast and clean. One sticky patch was a threadle directly into a 180 (back to the first jump). I worked hard to get ahead so I could do the threadle as a FC, but then I was fully rotated so he was jumping at me as I was completely facing him. There was also a wall right on the other side of that jump, so I don't think I needed such hard body language deceleration cues. It backed him off a lot. The second tough spot looked like this:
I wanted him to wrap to the right on landing after 3, and I was worried that if I handled 2-3 with him on my right I would either have to pull his line way wide or he might read it as a RC and turn left. I decided to try to FC the teeter, handle 2 with him on my left and push to the backside of 3. It worked, but I didn't converge soon enough and he really did me a favor. I need to handle better than that.
The second time I tried to FC between 2 and 3. I had to leave him on the teeter and he popped off.
I would have liked to try it again, as I wasn't happy with the flow either time.
The second time I ran the threadle to 180 sequence he dropped a bar (not sure why), but he was MUCH faster, and it felt great. I put a BC on the landing of the second 180 jump, and he was flying on to the next part of the course. Fun!
The first course was fun, and we were running beautifully until I tried to make things more difficult than I needed to. It started with a teeter to a serpentine that he ran smoothly with tight lines. His DW contact looked good. His table down was fast and he held it well. Then we had a 90 degree on side weave entry (the hardest angle for him), which I decided to then rear cross. He got the entry but then looked back for me as I crossed behind him and he popped out. Whoops. The rest of the course ran great.
The second course was a little more complicated, but we still ran it well. The first time through we had two slightly sticky patches, but overall he was fast and clean. One sticky patch was a threadle directly into a 180 (back to the first jump). I worked hard to get ahead so I could do the threadle as a FC, but then I was fully rotated so he was jumping at me as I was completely facing him. There was also a wall right on the other side of that jump, so I don't think I needed such hard body language deceleration cues. It backed him off a lot. The second tough spot looked like this:
The second time I tried to FC between 2 and 3. I had to leave him on the teeter and he popped off.
I would have liked to try it again, as I wasn't happy with the flow either time.
The second time I ran the threadle to 180 sequence he dropped a bar (not sure why), but he was MUCH faster, and it felt great. I put a BC on the landing of the second 180 jump, and he was flying on to the next part of the course. Fun!
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