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Thierry Thomas and Speed performing their World Championship winning routine in the final.
Linda De Smet and Border Collie Eby placed 5th in the Individual Freestyle World Championship.
The Dutch HTM reserves Matina with Kito performing in the Main Arena at the World Dog Show.
Swedish Karolina Petterson with Hungarian Pumi Zin performing in the Freestyle Final. They placed 9th.
The Dutch Freestyle reserve Marina Delsink with Gwydion performing in the Arena at the World Dog Show 2010. We invited all reserves to perform in the Arena as a thank you for travelling this far to support the event and the team.
Marina Delsink with Cheb de Bruine Buck were representng Holland in HTM and placed 14th individually.
Daniela and Rori placed 10th in the individual final and were on the CZ team that won bronze.
Another 2 Dutch World Championship routines have found their way to YouTube.
First Esther with Jamie, who placed 11th in HTM...
And Grietje with Floris, who were 10th in Freestyle:
Then search for Heelwork To Music and there will be lots of very nice pictures to choose from - both from the routines performed in the World Championship ring and in the Arena and from the presentation in the Arena.
Emmy and Whisper's (Team Denmark) demonstration in the Main Arena on Friday morning.
Enjoy Brigitte and Twizzle's freestyle routine and Brigitte and Ruby's HTM routine from the World Championship. Ruby placed 6th in the HTM and Twizzle was unfortunately disqualified for bringing a toy into the ring after having performed a super routine.
This was Hall J3 at 19.38 Sunday evening.
Detalied results for the HTM finals (if you click the picture it gets bigger):
Final results of the Freestyle World Championships 2010
Music: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy "I Wanna Be Like You"
Lina and Zing performed a very dramatic prison-break program to film music from The Rock. As far as I'm concerned they nailed it! They had some novel moves such as scratching out of the prison cell and ducking for incoming helicopters. Furthermore they e.g. had a great crawl and a cool back to back sideways move.
Music: Cirque du soleil "Alegria"
Johanna and Soda performed to the "Raiders March" from the film Indiana Jones. They had great contact and did some really good positions and fun transitions. Johanna used the machete in an inventive way, showing that the same prop can be used to several different moves. Soda opened a chest and found the treasure :)
Music: Disney Version of "Annie"
Michelle and her Border Collie made a playful performance to Jim Dale/York Theatre Companys "Blow Us A Kiss/Busker Alley". They did some really nice distance work with the handler and dog turning in different directions and they also worked independently at a couple of light posts. Furthermore they had some great heelwork and a cool headspin (done by the dog).
Music: Kool & The Gang "Jungle Mix"
Music: Annette O'Toole/Barry Manilow "Man Wanted/Dancin' Fool"
Alena and her Border Collie performed a fast paced action filled program to Bonnie Tyler's "I Need A Hero". They totally rocked! The theme was fire-fighting and the routine combined difficult tricks with speed and fluency and was - I dare say - also very crowd pleasing :) Some of the tricks were novelties such as the handler spinning on her knees while the dog leans its hind legs on her and the dog jumping through a (paper) window. They also made some cool somersaults as well as the dog spinning on its hind legs and doing some distance work.
Kath and her Border Collie performed to "No more tears" by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. The music starts out slow and then gets really fast. They moved great to the music and had a large variety of positions, directions and transistions. Everything was very fast and fluent. The dog kept very close to the handler and they worked great together :)
Anja and Queenie performed to film music from Lord of The Rings. They made a great job of interpreting the music and the film!
Music: "Le Onde" by Ludovico
Wanda and her dog performed to "Gipsy Dance Mix" by Edvin Marton/Latina Guitarro. They performed a wonderfully fluent program with many positions and directions. The transitions were really good and they made everything look so easy (although it was anythin but). The dog kept very close to the handler and they made a cute high step together. The most moving part for me was however to see the intensity of their connection, they moved as one and worked lovely together.
