Daisy Peel

What's the dog's interpretation going to be?

Am I reading the line properly?

Maybe I'm going to try a riskier handling move, but when push comes to shove,

at a big event, I'm less likely to make those errors.

It still happens.

And it still kind of pisses me off that at big events, my stupid big brain still gets in the way.

That's kind of like the whole mental stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah, like last year at World Championships, I did not do as well as I could have.

My dog was, he really rose up to the occasion.

You know, the arousal level was, it's like being at a concert because it's one ring in a stadium, everybody's watching.

And he did really well, way better than I thought.

But I would just, I'd have a moment where I would blink

Or I would go into my head and look away or he was watching me more closely than normal.

And so the first three runs were just not really what I had wanted at all.

And then the fourth run, and this is what really chapped me.

the fourth run, the last run when all hope of any result is basically gone is of course my best run.

And so like the whole, you know, the whole like week after that, I'm like, God damn it.

How can I figure out how to get into that mindset of sort of creative hopelessness for the first runs?

Like, why do I have to do shitty until there's no hope?