Czech DiscDog Fun Marathon 2012, Nymburk

Mimicking other major maintainers of dogpages even we have decided to start repairing our backlogs =).

Competition in Nymburk took place in rather windy but pleasantly muggy weather. Fine location near the city center attracts not only competitors from a wide vicinity but also several secular spectators. And there was a lot to see.

Starting on Friday with Quadruped and our favourite DogDartbee, Rufus caught 35.5m in Quadruped, so luckily we got over one half of Lucka Schönová's incredible World record thrown there =). Experienced guys like Marek Lehuta haven't let us pass to semifinals, so the final result is 12th place out of 16. Only one dog per player was allowed, so Barnabáš was having a rest ;).

As for the DogDartbee, experiments in the wind have taken us to 90 points for Barnabáš and 60 for Rufík, far below 160 necessary for the semifinals. So the boys have ended 29th and 43rd respectively.

On Saturday, we haven't shown much of a nice throwing in the Minidistance, ending on positions 52 (Ruf) and 53 with 6 and 5.5. respectively (only top 28 from 64 got on to the second round for time limitations). Last but not least, Barnabáš showed two nice catches in the first round of the Time trial, ending with 25.32s on the nice 16th place from 36. With Rufus, two unbelievably ugly sequences of throws have led to 34th place (luckily we are close to the beginning of the alphabet, preventing us from being the last with the same score =)).

The results are still not very breathtaking but the key point, gaining experience on the competition, worked well. And three day trip to Orlické hory starting on Saturday evening was a nice follow-up. And one more joke for the end: in the current ranking of Dogshop dogfrisbee league, Barnabáš is 66th, so one day I can tell the grandchildren that at least for a short while (thanks to attending more competitions so far) we were above Lucka & Boogie, about whom we will hear a lot in the future =).

Links:

• Official results
• Facebook page with photogalleries

Memoriál Jindry Pecháčka 2012

The time has come to make some funny action on a dogfrisbee competition again. As an ideal opportunity, Jindra Pecháček Memorial 2012 in Dobříš has been chosen. Accompanied with CACIT, event has offered friendly atmosphere, perfect artificial grass field and a possibility to watch other dog sports meanwhile.

"I'm cute, don't be affraid of me =)" (photo by Iwana Rychlá, www.ivana-foto.cz)

Our first-run trial in dogdartbee was kind of surprising. Rufus helped to adjust foresight ("only" 40 points) which helped Barnabáš to catch 210 points and get into semifinals. Performance there was not as decisive as the first one, thrower's lack of concentration enabled only 100 points. Result, divided 7-8th makes us happy, especially because of it being our first dogdartbee and second official competition in overall.

• Barnabáš: 210 + 100 points, overally 7-8th out of 41
• Rufus: 40 points, 34th out of 41

Minidistance was no big surprise for us and it still shows necessity of throwing technique improvement and further research =) on how to land more smoothly and play the whole thing better. Funny fact was both Barnabáš and Rufus getting exactly the same result in the first round, i.e. 11.5 points, moving them dangerously close to each other in the second round =).

Casual catching position (photo by Iwana Rychlá).

 

• Barnabáš: 11.5 + 11 = 22.5 points, 28th place out of 41
• Rufus:  11.5 + 9.5 = 21 points, 31-32nd place

We are looking forward to future competitions and feel motivated to train ;). Photos are being chosen now, meanwhile you can have a look into the following galleries.

• Official results
• some nice photos (Tomasz Karpeta)
• further photos (Iwana Rychlá) 
• some more photos (babotoosha)
• yet another pics (Karolína Herzogová)

(photo by Iwana Rychlá)

Rufus DNA CEA and MDR tests

Good news, everyone! Slovgen laboratory has sent us results of DNA CEA and MDR tests of Rufus' blood. Both are such that Ruf is heterozygote, i.e.
MDR +/- (carrier),
CEA R/r (carrier).
MDR result is official, CEA test is only orientational.

Smile ;).

Trip with Hanka and Rakša

Among other holiday activities we've gone for a fine trip with Hanka and her Czechoslovak wolfdog Rakša. The dogs jogged aroung the whole Prokopské údolí and meanwhile Hanka has taken some beautiful shots. Thanks ;).

For more photos, see Hanka's Picassa gallery.

Well, we could have been watching the camera but why would we do so? =)

 

After explainingto the wolf-like friend, what to do with the ball. Fun begins =).

View is surely nice but a teething game is a better thing to do.

Three fellows, three tongues out =).

Rufus dysplasia examination

On 22.06.2012 Rufus has had his elbows and hips examined for dysplasia by MVDr. Lukáš Duchek. The results are great, both elbows and hips are clear, i.e. HD A/A and ED 0/0. After the narcosis necessary for the RTG, Rufus was tired a bit but an afternoon nap has remedied this ;).

FFFF 2012

FFFF 2012

Despite severe organisation trouble this year's Fun Factory For Frisbee could take place and host dogfrisbee, ultimate, DDC, discgolf and freestyle players in Dobřejovice, place definitely even nicer than originally intended. So no excuses could be applied and we've set off for our first dogfrisbee competition.

Both Barnabáš and Rufík attended Super Pro Toss&Fetch and both were doing their best to catch what I've misthrown =). Saturday round was variegated with funny wind, Sunday in calm air enabled surer throws. The boys seemed to be enthusiastic about the disc and I've been given new motivation for further training.

Results

Barnabáš:  8.5 and 9.5 points, 27th place out of 40.
Rufík: 4.5 and 12 points, 31st place.
Detailed results on discdog.

Thanks to Lída and Jitka for the photos. Several more can be found e.g. in the Trist's gallery or by Krtecina on rajce.