I posted on FB about what baby buppy’s first agility venue should be and got some good suggestions, and then immediately discovered I don’t know jack shit about different venues and what all the different options are
someone wanna infodump?
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Always proud of being one! LAKAAAAAS! 🇵🇭💪🏼
PNP-SAF SWAT challenger (one team entry) in UAE SWAT Challenge 2026.
Ranked 14th overall among the 109 teams from 48 countries that participated in the competition.
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Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory
After a year-long pilot project, Toyota’s Canadian manufacturing subsidiary has contracted seven humanoid robots to work in a plant building RAV4 SUVs under a robots-as-a-service deal.
“After evaluating a number of robots, we are excited to deploy Digit to improve the team member experience and further increase operational efficiency in our manufacturing facilities,” Toyota Motor Manufacturing…
Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory
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#Nike enhances women’s strength and agility on the court
Nike enhances women’s strength and agility on the court | K U L T ™
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feeling compelled to share the story of when I learned what agility was for the first time. I was a kid, and we had this board game (kinda like a MIG) with questions that were all animal related. The question was something along the lines of: “What animal do you train agility with?” And I had never heard the word. I sat there, frantically thinking of something, anything, while every single animal had vanished from my brain. And this was not a high stakes situation. I was there, giggling to myself, trying to convince mom I had no idea and won’t she tell me the answer already?? And she was giggling back and told me to just make a guess, any guess. And I decided to go with the name of the largest bug I knew. Stag beetle. And that was of course hilarious and she broke down laughing because stag beetle??!? And, well. When she told me it was dogs I felt kinda silly. But you always have to learn something for the first time.
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Clean standard run!
[[MORE]]AKC trial weekend by the numbers:
- Runs: 4 (2 Novice STD, 2 Novice JWW)
- Qs: 2 (1 STD, 1 JWW) - our first Qs in AKC!
- Runs with an engaged, happy dog: 4!! (#1 goal for this trial)
- Weaves nailed on the first try: 3!! (#2 goal for this trial)
- Wind chill on Saturday: like -10F idk
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Bree’s agility career started when she was already a senior, at 8 years old. In AAC agility, if your dog is over the age of 7 you can have them jump 2 heights below their measured height. Bree’s measured jump height is 12", but that is ridiculously high for a dog of her build! Even 8" was pretty high for her. She loved agility, but she is not built for jumping. I jumped her at 4" and that was perfect for her. Some people will look at this and say “that bar is practically on the ground! That’s not real agility!” But they’re dead wrong, and probably just don’t have enough real agility experience. Agility dogs come in all shapes and sizes and it’s cool when “different” dogs like Bree can compete in a safe way. And Bree was a little winner who Q'ed almost every run. Her jumps may be almost on the ground, but you know she still had to run, navigate the course, beat the time, go over all the other non-jump obstacles just like everyone else … Jumping high is not actually important to agility. Bree might be the best agility dog I’ll ever have, just from how committed she was, how many achievements she earned in a very short amount of time …. Just an absolute Star Athlete.
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🕯️ Advent of Insight · A 24-Day Journey into Clarity
What 24 small insights revealed about work, leadership, and being human.
Twenty-four days ago, Advent of Insight began with a simple intention:to slow down in a season that often accelerates,to offer clarity in small, human doses,and to make space for reflection instead of resolution.
Now, as the final door closes, it’s time to step back and look at the whole picture.
From Personal Clarity to…
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🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 23 – From Frameworks to Flow
Moving from frameworks to flow means returning to the essence of agility — responsiveness, collaboration, and purpose.Frameworks were meant as maps, not cages. They help us start, but they’re not meant to define us.When people cling to methods over meaning, they trade adaptability for ritual.Flow begins when we stop enforcing the manual and start following momentum.
→ Related: When Governance…
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🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 19 – Value Streams, Not Bureaucracies
When value streams become bureaucracies, the system loses the very flow it was built to protect.Alignment turns into approval. Roles multiply while ownership fades.Flow needs lightness — minimal structure, clear purpose, shared intent.Before adding another layer, ask: will this help value move faster, or just make it easier to stop?
→ Related: When Value Streams Become Bureaucracies
🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 19 – Value Streams, Not Bureaucracies
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Sorry for the lack of proper focus, but here’s Ponzi practicing tunnels in agility class
It’s interesting as it’s a very self guided class. We do get some assistance from the trainers on newer skills, but we’re largely practicing the different stations on our own 😅
So there’s a good bit of doubt that I’m doing anything correctly, but feedback from the instructors has been good so far. This practice was after we had already done tunnels earlier in class and we’d been training for more than an hour, so Ponzi was pretty tired.
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sequencing!! we’ll work on tighter turns eventually
video description: a girl and a GSD do a four-obstacle agility sequence, starting with a shoulder-pull jump, then the tunnel, and finishing with a straight jump into a u-turn for the last jump
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Life is unpredictable, and chaos often appears as an unwelcome guest. Yet, hidden within life’s turmoil lies the profound opportunity not merely to endure, but to grow stronger. This phenomenon is known as antifragility, a powerful concept introduced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his groundbreaking book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
Lesson 272: Make this my own: The Power of Antifragility: Why Some Break and Others Thrive
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Roland finished the weekend off with a great jumpers run and earned his novice jumpers title! such a great weekend!
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3rd agility trial! CPE again. I learned a lot this trial that I’m going to try and keep in mind going forward. Rambling to myself:
- 3/3 Qs (one that shouldn’t have been a Q…. the judge didn’t see Tucker pop out of the weaves), 2 standard runs and one jumpers run. That makes our CPE Q rate 100% (gradeflation…….) and we earned our level one standard title. Don’t ask me what the letters are I have no idea.
- I’m probably not going to focus on CPE or try to go to many more CPE trials in the immediate future. The games don’t really interest me right now and the trials and titling/leveling up are sort of set up assuming that people do all the games. I do like the more relaxed qualification requirements as it’s nice for building confidence/morale but my Q ribbons sort of feel like Monopoly money when I know that many of them wouldn’t even count in AKC. I do think I’ll start Ash out in CPE once he’s ready just to get low-pressure trial experience. Also the titles just confuse me idk.
- Note to self: for the time being, don’t sign up for multiple trial days per weekend (one day is fun, two is a chore). Don’t sign up for runs that have a big time separation - waiting around all day or leaving and coming back are both lame. Only one run per day is also lame. Luckily the AKC trials I’m looking at are mostly organized better in terms of time and I should only have to spend a few hours at a trial to get my two runs in. I’d love to volunteer at trials but Tucker just can’t handle that.
- Things that went well: 1. We nailed some handling sequences that I was concerned about and had some good front and rear crosses! 2. I lost engagement with Tucker early in one of our runs but got it back!! and the rest of the run went smoothly :) 3. I asked a lot of him and he gave me so much effort! Bonus: he’s so fast ! Not border collie fast but plenty fast for me.
- Things to work on: 1. WEAVES! Every time we weave in a trial setting Tucker pops out early. Not sure if it’s because of the trial or because we’re doing 12 weaves at practice and only 6 in trials. Needs some attention in training. 2. Ring entries - once he’s with me he’s ON, but I’m having a slightly hard time getting him to focus before we begin a run. The routine at a trial is very different from practice and needs some troubleshooting. 3. Not being distracted by Father. My partner came and watched the trial for the first time and that was difficult for Tucker as a guy who struggles with separation and is very concerned with keeping track of his people. However I like having my partner with so we’ll have to get comfy with it.
- I’m pretty agility-ed out right now but I’ve got about a month until our next trial and some great information about what we need to work on in the interim! Got emotional today thinking about what a great agility dog Tucker is and wishing I had more time with him. He’s so cool and special and I love him so much!!
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what a rockstar! Roland had a great standard run today and earned his novice standard title! so proud of this little dog!
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finishing off Saturday with a lovely jumpers run for Roland’s second novice jumpers Q! I loved this course, it was very friendly and easy to follow for us novices