[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: All Breed Judge Seminars
- From: Peggy <pmick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:07:39 -0500
Unlike almost any other breed, the thing that's the most difficult
for the non-GSD specialist is "getting it" with the dog on the move--and
most seminars don't give them the chance to be up close and personal and
on a level with the dogs moving long enough.
In the average space provided at seminars for the "example" dogs to
move, not only is there not enough space, but the presenter doesn't
usually move the dogs enough to (a) let them settle down and/or (b) let
them fall apart.
Would be judges need to see both things...
Some dogs hit the first, maybe the second time around an all-breed
ring and look wonderful...but if you take them around a couple more
times, or ask them to do a specialty size ring twice, they break
down........the non- specialists need to see that. They need to see the
faults that occur while gaiting (fronts lift, backs wobble, butts go up
in the air, toes drag, no follow through, dead tails, etc.
By the same token some dogs take a time or two around the smaller
rings to settle...and then these people, if they aren't blind, can see a
really nice moving dog, with the shoulder opening and the front reaching
out with no lift, the back remaining steady, the butt down where it
should be, the rear legs working properly, following through without
great kick up, and the tail doing what a not-dead tail does, and so on
and so forth.
I can tell you that if the seminars are presented in this way, it
really opens some people's eyes...
It is not necessary to show would be judges where the withers
are, or whether the dog is dishing in front...
these things are the same in all breeds...and many GOOD GSD breeder
judges will tell you there is no need to meaure them or give them a
massage, either--let these wannabe's see a small number of dogs moving
for a while.........those that are ever going to get it will get it
then. Watching specials at the national is too distracting for most of
them---not to mention that they are often freaked by the noise we
make..........they don't know what to look at and a big bunch of
specials is just too confusing. 5 to 8 dogs that keep moving, that's
the ticket.
Been there, done that...both as a student and as a presenter.......
Peggy
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