B.A.S.E. 2019

After extreme and difficult EO, B.A.S.E. 2019 (annual Pyrshep competition) was just pure pleasure. First of all, well, Pyrsheps :D As always, it was just lovely to see so many of them, so different yet so similar, and to meet old and new friends. The atmosphere was just awesome. 

 Family meeting: Marinka (I guess, her and mother Nany are clones so not sure), mother Nany, Puck, Zelda, father Evo. 

Secondly, the organisers did really wonderful job - from choosing the place which allowed us to run either outside or inside depending on the weather (and also run a bit in between out and in carrying the obstacles when the it changed unexpectedly ☀️⛈️), with great inside bar with lovely Czech beer, through dedicated and capable helpers, to the very best team of judges: Alice Glocknerova (CZ) and Rene Blank (D). I even liked the fact that the barbecue on Saturday was not barbecue as the food was ready for everybody at the same time and the little starters were just SOOOOO delicious. 

Thirdly, the judges and the courses were great - and after EO 😈 I appreciated it even more. Level appropriate, fluent, challenging, fun - even getting eliminated on those courses was fun :D - it was real pleasure to walk them and to run them and after each coursewalking I just coulnd't wait to test myself on them :). 

Brego says he was awesome, I was too slow :D. 

And to make it even better, the competition was organised in four height categories - small, medium (calculated together, as there was just one small dog), and minilarge and large (again, calculated together). I ran Flaszek and Brego in minilarge category (jump heights 50 cm) and it was great - Brego had times better than the medium dogs, he's just flying on 50 cm and was really finally able to show all his power and Flaszek also broke his own speed records 🏎️.


I was running Flaszek in A1, and Brego and Brava in A3. Flaszek of course forgot all his contacts, but since we weren't really training that hard lastly, he is of course forgiven, otherwise he was super fast, did nice weaves and even in the end reached 3rd place in combined A1 category. I'm super pleased with him.

Brego was just freaking amazing, it's a pity I ruined two of his runs (once I was really out of breath and once I was just to slow and hesitated with the handling option, which resulted in elimination), but it felt great to run him again.

Brava as everybody knows already, is pyrfection, she had four clean runs, all of them on the podium, she never put a foot wrong and in the end won the whole event (you know, third time lucky so finally we managed to win the beautiful B.A.S.E. 2019 jump :D).

Last but not least, thanks to dr Natalia Kucharczyk and her collegues as well as amazing and brave Pyrshep community, we were able to do quite extensive eye testing (around 75 dogs were tested during and after the competition). The aim on the study was not only to find the common eye problems in the breed, but hopefully also help working on genetic testing for some of them - the results of the study will be published later, but we already know that it was worth doing it and that it looks promising. Since I was engaged in the project from the beginning, I would really like to thank Radka Kopecka for allowing us to do it during the competition, owners of the venue for providing the place to conduct the testing even though we have to move furniture around a bit, dr Natalia Kucharczyk to take such interest in our breed, partner in crime Virginie de Andrea for all the help and design below (it was used on the jump and leash that were drawn between the participants of the study)  and of course everybody who decided to have their dogs tested and was so cooperative and helpful.