Gitchi is one lucky puppy to have an advisor, mentor, coach, cheerleader, virtual midwife, and of course penultimate admirer of her adorableness in the person of her "Aunt Coach"! To illustrate what I mean, I'm posting below Sharon's response to what I wrote yesterday:
"Agility is such a team sport ... handlers forget that their role is just as crucial for
success as the dogs' actual athleticism. So ... good for you Susan Fraser! All
that cone and barrel racing work will serve to build and refine your role on the
team."
"Gitchi's athleticism will conquer the obstacles, but this early work will be crucial
to your skill in navigating the order of obstacles within a course. If a ship -
Susan is the navigator / helmsman; Gitchi is the propulsion. The navigator has
no purpose without propulsion. The propulsion will run aground without
the navigator. The link btwn navigator and propulsion = communication;
explicit, consice, and timely."
"It's profoundly more than a cone!"
"S (aka Aunt Coach)"
Nuff said!! Hopefully Sharon will be a regular "respondent" here - this might even turn into something worth reading if so! (And by the way, she had no clue that I was starting a blog, much less that I would shamelessly publish her private comments to me without even the semblance of an attempt to ask her permission!)
Suse'n Gitchi
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