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Agility Aid - The First Show Processor
Agility
Aid was originally designed just to release Show Secretaries from the task of
producing running orders and class calling lists. In those days class sizes were
under 100 and clear rounds were run off! Ring cards were collected at shows,
with only the ring number entered on them, and everyone would join a bun-fight
round the calling lists to make a note of their running orders. Anyone with a
biro was very popular - anyone with a caravan was unknown! June Richardson
continues the story. |
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Agility Judging in 1984
The Judge's Word Is Final This wonderful editorial comes from the Agility Voice
archives in the days when the dogwalk was known as the cat-walk. Have things changed? Read it and see. |
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iSS - On the Road to
Digital Agility
June
Richardson was there in the early days when agility was a strange cross between
fast-paced heelwork (it was all done on the left), working trials and show
jumping. All breeds, sizes and abilities were mixed together. If your dog could
jump 30inches (760mm) you could take part, and some of the smallest dogs did
remarkably well. There were no PCs, mobile phones, sat nav nor the Internet. A
stopwatch was the nearest we got to technology. Now look at it. June Richardson
looks back at how agility came into the digital age. |
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Score Pads - Old School
Anne
Davis started agility in 1989 - maybe 1988. She was not very old at the time and
did KCJO for a while but stopped competing in 2004. In 2014 she came back and
she found that
things had changed. She reminisced on Facebook about the old days of paper score
pads, pencils and bulldog clips - before era of electronic scoring and
hand held? What a response she got. |
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Two Pads Good
As a means of maximising ring party efficiency, and in particular where there is a large
class involved, the 'Two Pad System' was invented for scribes as a time saver. However, any
system you care to invent or employ is absolutely no good if it is not explained precisely
to the people who use it.
(10/05/00) |
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Tarytimers
Electronic
timing has already been used this year at quite a few shows around the UK. Altogether the Tarytimer system has been booked by more than 40 clubs for shows stretching from Longleat to
Aberdeen and Pembroke. Developer Martin Pollard reports that the general handler reaction has
been the best that can be hoped i.e. complete, seamless and immediate assimilation. It's as if
it has always been there. Time and time again... and again... and again. |
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