WAO 2013- team Argentina
This will be your 1st World Championship as a team manager. How you organize the team trainings before the competition... you have made gatherings...
Training with the team as a whole is.. nearly impossible. Only Karina and I train in the same facility, but I have the advantage of knowing Nicole & Roy too( who train on another group) an trained for a year or two with Leticia & Soju when she lived here( these days she lives in Senega so you can say that I know the strong and weak points of most of the dogs on our delegation. A far as Fernando’ s dog, Pepa, and Jorge’ s, Daxa & Jack, I’ ve seen plenty of videos to get a strong idea of what we have, and I am confident on what each duo( dog + handler) can do.
Since training together is not a possibility, I am constantly taking notes of things we need to w on( sequences or specific styles the Judges have, and so on), plus things that might be useful to practice such as the agility games, and get the dogs used to the team-relay format for example those things we don’ t have here since we run only by FCI’ s standard rules and regulations.
We have arranged a dinner when we’ re all in Madrid, and a separate training together, but it wi happen shortly before the competition... although it is very important to at least get aknowled with one another previous to the championship! I’ m truly looking forward to that!
“... I am constantly taking notes of things we need to work on“