Swim Meet or Dog Show

Have you ever gone to a swim meet, and directly beside the swim meet in the gym, there is a dog show?? Well....today was a first for me. Between Steph's and Leah's swims here at Rutgers, I thought I would wonder around the facility, and guess what....I found a dog show. Now...most of you know about my wonderful dog Kobe, and he is a "very active dog"....guess he takes after me. These dogs at this show here in New Jersey were so well-trained. In the one demonstration the dogs had to go and sort through 10

objects and bring back the object that had the "scent of their owner", and then the other demonstration the dogs had to jump over fences.......I was absolutely amazed.

After going back to the swim meet, I thought if you can train a dog to do all of this stuff, training swimmers should be easy. The dog's knew if they did well, they would get a biscuit, and I am sure this was practiced at home as well. As for swimmers, if you perform well at practice, your "treat" would be great performances at swim meets. At times I see some of us that like to think that great performances at competitions will happen by "magic". You have to be honest with yourself at practice. Just like the dogs......the more you practice a certain skill CORRECT, the more "treats" (or great performances) you will have when everyone is watching.

So yes, I guess you can indeed learn alot from a dog.

Good Luck at the SnowFlake Splash at CV on Sunday. WSY has many swimmers entered in this meet, and let us see what kind of performances will happen in the water on Sunday