Odd Shapes 1 15 20 9 12 13 7 6 10 14 2 8 14 7 11 19 16 17 4 5 8 3 5 16 15 13 18 4 18 11 6 17 10 9 3 12 1 19 20 2 10 Team Jumping Medium (white numbers) Team Jumping Small (black numbers) 2005 FCI Agility WC Judge: Mr. J. Boix Balaguer (ESP) Using an odd-shaped overlay (70' x 30' + 50' x 20') to select the most obstacles possible and the most interesting course elements. Dealing with Odd-Shaped Spaces Let's move on to the planned use of an odd-shaped training space. At this WC event, the judge used the same obstacle setup for Medium and Small dogs and simply renumbered. The Jumpers course shown in Figure 10 is shown with an odd-shaped overlay. With just a few minor modifications, the full Medium-dog course can be made to fit in the unique space shown in Figure 11. On the revised course, the new #2-#6 closely matches the original white numbered #2-#6 and the new #10-#20 closely matches the original white numbered #7-#17. Figure 12 shows how a renumbering of the reduced Medium course is all that is needed to create a sequence from the black numbered Small-dog course seen in Figure 10. The use of overlays that match your practice area combined with a list of obstacle substitutions will allow you to reduce course designs from trials and other resources, and then practice handling those designs and judging trends. 9 11 15 2 1 10 table or jump T 5 16 6 7 8 14 5 20 3 18 11 19 6 10 17 13 table or jump 12 T 1 9 4 4 3 2 7 12 8 12 11 Exercise from the Small-dog Team Jumping course using new arrangement. Change the location of the first tunnel, tire, panel jump, weave poles, and the winged jump in the upper right corner. The location of the original obstacles is shown in grey. Keep equal angles of approach to the panel jump and the jump above it (red line). 24 Clean Run | December 19