Agility
Clark going HIT in agility at the 2010 IWSCA national specialty. He loves the agility game
Clark loves agility, is fearless, and is a blast to train. He tries very hard and loves a challenge. His favorite obstacles are the teeter, which he loves to bang, and the tunnels. I'm really enjoying running with him. We are just learning to really work as a team but the learning process is a lot of fun. He is incredibly consistent for such a young dog. Now we are working on increasing speed while maintaining the consistency.
Clark made his AKC agility debut the weekend of March 8th & 9, 2008. He far exceeded my expectations including a fantastic novice standard run. He got his first qualifying run and got first place. At only his second trial, Clark earned his first agility title on Sunday, July 13th by running two qualifying runs in agility standard both with first places. He also got his first novice jumpers with weaves leg. On August 23, 2008 at only his 5th agility trial, Clark qualified in all 6 of his runs and completed his novice jumpers with weaves title and earned his first open JWW leg. He also earned his open standard agility title and earned his first excellent leg. He earned two novice Fast legs. The following weekend, Clark earned his novice Fast title with 3 legs in 3 runs. Clark earned his Open Fast title on September 21, 2008. Clark earned his Open JWW title on Saturday, October 4th and also earned his first Excellent Fast leg on the same day. Clark earned his Excellent standard A title on 11/1/08 and went on the next day to qualify in Excellent standard B and earned his first MACH points. He qualified in jumpers with weaves two days in a row (January 17th and 18th) with both 1st placements, which completed his Excellent Jumpers with Weaves title. Clark earned his first double Q on March 21, 2009 and he now has 20. He also has 621 points towards his MACH. He finished his Excellent Fast title on April 4, 2009 with a first place finish. He earned his MX title on Sunday, May 17th and he earned his MXJ on Saturday, June 6th.
Clark was ranked 4th IWS for the 2010 agility invitational. This will be the first year I will be competing with Clark at the invitational. Clark was ranked 8th IWS for the 2009 AKC agility invitational. Not too bad considering he didn't start to run in Excellent B until January 2009. He finished 2009 ranked as #5 IWS in agility.