NASS results discussion? - Page 1

I'm surprised a nearly a week later no one has made a topic. I couldn't be there, so I'd love to hear from people who were, particularly in regards to progeny groups and performance tests. Were there performance awards? Who earned them? There were very few failures, so if the performance judging was correct this means more consistency than in past years, a very good thing! Congratulations to all who brought home successful placings! As usual, a few dogs I really wanted to hear about were pulled, but a few dogs I've been eyeing for breeding did very well. I look forward to hearing all about it. :)

It was a very nice show, Cindy and company did an excellent job organizing.  The hotel was very nice and the rooms were excellent for the price.  The bitework was decent, there were some dogs who really impressed me.  The failures were definitely failures!  The  judges and helpers were consistant through all the dogs.  I would have liked to see a bit more heeling in the attack out of the blind but other then that it I have no real complaints. 

I was most impressed with the 18-24 month classes... there are some very nice youngsters out there.  I liked the VA-1 female she did decent bitework and she showed herself faultlessly thru the whole class.  It's nice that she is from an unknown(at least to me) kennel and Sire.  I also really liked the last place Working female who was handled by a very young girl who did a great job.  YAY for Junior Handlers!! The female was out of coat and a bit smaller then the rest of the class but she showed herself nicely and did a good job in the bitework.  I really liked her attitude and would like to see her shown in coat sometime with the same young lady handling.


I was not surprised by the placement within the working males.  Congratulations to VA's Odin, Gorbi and Danny the top placing American Bred dogs.  Griff v. TeMar truly did the best bitework and looked awesome when Lotus took him airborn.

That's all for now!

is there any video out there to watch? i was intrested to see how V9 Zamp Urbecke did... good or bad i like to know.

I was curious about Zamp's work as well, he is very similar genetically to my puppy and she is a raging fireball.

Hi Bea & KCzaja,

I am uploading the video from Zamp's bitework as we speak. Here is the link now - www.youtube.com/watch He did very good although the judge got in my way of the video for the short attack, but the long bite is clear for you to see, the helper came out very quickly so the heeling is not long, it was set very close to the blind from what I could tell. He did perfect outs though and nice full grips, he loves to do the bitework and was barking his head off to get to them :) Zamp has the most amazing temperment I've ever seen, he can be left alone and trusted with 8 week old puppies, but can do great bitework too :) He lives in my home and is just so easy to live with, I love this dog, I can't wait for his first puppies to grow up, they are two weeks old this week and look to have super nice heads with great stops, I'll probably take some pictures this coming week of them. Anyway, I'll post the video when it loads and you guys can check it out.

Barbie

Barbie,
 

thanks , i have been waiting to see Zamps pups and bite work and did you get any on his movement what did the judge say about his conformation? i like to know as you know , i am very intrested to use Zamp.i like that you say he has a wonderful temp. you know thats  the first thing i look at..
 

bea

 Hi Barbie,

I'm taking a break from editing some footage we took at the show and came across your post  regarding the Judge being in the way of your shot and thought I'd see if I had a better angle of  Zamp  doing his bite work.

You can take a look at the clip here www.youtube.com/watch

The quality is not the best but if you click on 720p on the bottom right of the screen you can watch it in HD and it improves it a little.

Mark

Overall the Sieger Show was a lot of fun. It was a well organized event held at a beautiful location, with good weather most of the time. It was my pleasure to witness much camaraderie and friendly cooperation.

The nice part for me was getting a chance to actually speak with many that were previously just names on the computer. In the younger classes, I thought the quality of the females presented was much stronger than the males; the judge took a long time evaluating the female classes. There were some beautiful sables shown in a few classes, such as Waiko - wow! Many, many gorgeous dogs in the youth and young dog classes. Lots of dogs to view in the various progeny groups. The efforts to accomplish the presentation must be huge.

While the basic preparation of the dogs in the bite work portion may have been of higher quality than previous years, I felt that some of the work was marginal at best. Once that test is completed, I often wonder if the judges even consider a very good, or a rather poor performance in their show placements. I'd like to think that as more people expect and demand a higher level of bite work performance from the present bloodlines, that the performance test will have an increased consideration.

Griff Temar just turned 2 years old and looked very young amongst the beautiful males in his class. But his bite work performance was very nice and you can look to his bloodlines to trace the work ethic. Griff has Dux Cuatro Flores (Mutz line) on his father's side and the all important mother influence is Ule (Ghandi daughter). She's twelve times SchH 3 (most of those trials at regional and national championships), the 2008 USA Universal Siegerin, the alternate for Team Canada at the 2009 WUSV. It will be interesting to follow Griff's maturity.

Naila Fichtenschlag (Dux 4 Flores daughter) was a female that I thought showed strong bite work. The back half was fast but a bit "dirty" after the out.

Performance videos, photos, other impressions ….. anyone ?

Well, for what it's worth, that's my snapshot of NASS 2010. Thank you to absolutely everyone for all their time and hard work pulling off the event.

karen

My daughter & I had a great time at NASS.

Due to her work schedule .... we caught the red eye flight and arrived mid-day Friday.  No practice bitework  for Naila and she was in season as well ......

Naila's speed was amazing but her "out" a little dirty   ....    Not the placement we were after - she was V-28 in Germany - but we felt the trip was well worth it and enjoyed talking to numerous individuals who approached us up until late Sunday afternoon regarding her amazing bitework :)   No one referred to her by name - she was simply "417"

I/we LOVED the VA-1 female - her movement was AMAZING! 

For males it had to be Odin v Mittelwest for us.  We also liked Duras vom Holtkaemper See & Tracy Bullinger's Utah has movement to die for - wow!

The exceptional bitework for Griff easily put him as the favorite for the top spot for performance.

So important to go and see these great dogs for yourself!