Since yesterday's agility showed Chloe and I were pretty much out of sync (I'll give the explanation in a bit), I thought it was time to go back to the foundation ala "flat-work and other stuff".
The reason why for the lack of synchronization? Well, its all my fault! I have been concentration for independent contacts and more drive in the weaves for the past several weeks. So you concentrate in other areas, another will falter. Chloe reads my body language just fine but we're just out of sync - mainly me - on getting the timing. Our send work was awful in class while great at home. But Denise pointed out that my body language was saying otherwise in which I wasn't fully committed - basically I was lazy and flat in class. The only time I was fully committed was the last attempt on a sequence in class in which we really cooked it good. We smoked it.
We did work on proofing for a trial environment and Chloe was distracted and then started to get stressed and.. and.. I was getting frustrated. But Denise found her telltale sign and told me to keep watch of that and be sure after all the work we have done to prevent this does not go down the drain.
After moving all the contact obstacles to the otherside of the yerd, we worked on heel work, crosses, jumps and yes, continually working on drive through the poles. This was a good twenty minute sessions. I did some exercises in Linda's book and a tight sequence we ran in class. While it is still an ongoing process, Chloe's jumps are getting tighter but they are still wide at times so I am going to modify my cadence as per Denise's advice.
Scout session was mainly working on heel work and weaves. I have added 2 more poles thus having eight. He is getting more consistent and now he isn't popping out as much. Now when he pops out, he barks and I guess that him telling me, "sh*t I missed up again! I know, I know." LOL