This past weekend (April 25-26) was a busy one for Flipsi members, who put on three shows in two days. In preparation, Manca and Maja put together a flyer about our club and its activities, for distribution at these and other public events:
Then on Saturday April 25 Tomaž and Casper traveled to Bled, where they took part in Dogging Bled 2009, a charity run around the lake for dogs and their owners.
Turnout for the event was quite high; all the money from entry fees was donated to an animal shelter in Jesenice. Tomaž and Casper did not do the run around the lake, but were invited by the organizers to do a dogfrisbee freestyle demonstration, somewhat adapted to the smaller size of the playing area, right next to the lake.
Since Tomaž is a very accurate thrower, no frisbees ended up in the water...
...though if they had I am sure Casper would have happily retrieved them.
Tomaž reports that spectators were very impressed with the show, and the organizers invited them to do it again next year. Hopefully next year more of us will be able to participate.
This year only Tomaž was free to go. But that same day, Amadea and I had the opportunity to do a show in Ajdovščina, where our home kennel club, ŠKD Ajdovščina, was hosting an agility competition. Amadea and Bora went first:
www.agility-slo.netI followed their performance with one of my own, using two dogs, in a continuous performance to a song called N'taka by the Slovenian band Terrafolk.
www.agility-slo.netThis is the music I've been using for Lyra's freestyle routines since the 2008 EC; I really like it for freestyle but usually have to stop two minutes into the song. This time, when I got to the usual stopping point, I simply switched dogs and continued to the end (another minute and a half or so) with Bamm Bamm.
www.agility-slo.netBamm Bamm and I don't have a set routine worked out yet, so we mostly improvised together.
www.agility-slo.netThen the next day, Sunday April 26, Amadea (obviously working overtime this weekend),
Nadja
and Tamara
traveled to Bled to do a show in conjunction with the rowing regatta there, which attracts lots of spectators. Just to make things more exciting, Nadja had some car problems the day before. She and Ginny were returning from a day of SAR field exercises in Tržič when her car gave up the ghost shortly before reaching Ljubljana. Fortunately she managed to make it as far as the exit off the highway, where with the help of SAR colleagues Laura and Vid, who were driving behind her, she got the car safely out of the way and waited for the tow truck. In the meantime she called Tamara and Alenka to let them know that the frisbee plans for the next day were off, since Tamara was to travel to Bled with Nadja. :(
However, with a strong dose of determination, they managed to pull off the plan after all, with everyone piling into the Coljas' car for the trip to Bled. If I'm counting right, that was three dogs and six people in one car.
Once there they had a look around and selected a small grassy area as a location for their shows. Many a passerby stopped to watch with admiration and amazement. Two little girls were so delighted that they wanted to try throwing these flying plastic wonders themselves.
At the end they took a group photo in front of the lake
and made a stop at Aleš's parents' place for a bite to eat and a viewing of photos and videos from the recent competition in the Czech Republic, arriving in Ljubljana just in time to get Tamara and Žak on the train for home.
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