The 14 Weave Pole Experiment

  At a recent agility trial, a friend said "Now that my dog is in Open, she'll only ever be trained on 12 poles. I don't ever want her to do 6 poles again."  He's afraid she's going to pop out of the poles.
  This made me wonder what would happen if I set up 14 poles at the training center. The weaves at the center are made so that they are 2 sets of 6 poles, not joined in the center. We have another set of 2x2 weaves, so it was easy to add another 2 poles.
  This is an edited version of the results of my experiment:

  The two more experienced dogs took a couple of reps to get comfortable with the extra weavies. The youngsters, the Scotties, didn't miss a beat and just weaved them on the first try.

 Obviously, 14 poles isn't much of a challenge for the terriers, so on another day I set up 18 poles. That's the regular set of 12 plus the set of 6 2x2s. These are all 24 inch wide poles.

  Here's the video:

  My next challenge will be more proofing, and working on more difficult entries.