Annika Af Klercker

Hello and welcome to another episode of agility on the ear. Today
we have the great opportunity to hear the agility life story of an
international agility star from sweden as today's episode will be
in english She first came in touch with agility when she was in her
late teens and trained and competed with their family dog. For sure
not the easiest dog to train, but at least she learned to be
persistent and to always be very inventive about new ideas for the
training. This dog taught her that no challenge is too big and that
there is always another way! After a many years long break from
agility and dog sport life, when she was working day and night as a
news photographer, she rediscovered the sport a little by accident
– and got hooked immediately. So she restarted her career in 2012
with her Jack Russell terrier. And soon after that border collie
Storma came into her life – and with her her life changed
completely. From being a beginner, she tooks her to adventures she
could only dream of. Podiums, national team, EO, AWC and traveling
all over Europe. Thanks to her and agility she made so many friends
and got to run the coolest competitions. They ended their career
with winning the team final at Gold Rush, since she unfortunately
had to retire shortly after that. Sometimes she thinks about
herself she should more be interested about results - but she
appreciate the joy of a cool run so much more- where she can feel
nothing but the flow. Especially after Covid, when competitions was
closed for almost a year, she feels more than ever that she just
want to enjoy every second of her life with her dogs at its
fullest! That the dogs lives and careers are so short and she wants
to give them and herself the possibility to have as much fun as
possible! She loves that this is a sport where you all the time
have so much to learn and that you need to develop in so many ways.
As a dog trainer, as an athlete and with your mental skills. She
truly thinks it’s an amazing and complex sport that combines
physics, the relation to an animal, dog training, memory skills and
high focus in a very short time performance. People sometimes tell
her that she has a great attitude and energy even if she or her
dogs made some mistake. But she told me before it is maybe not her
attitude. It is more about her life style motto: „you never know
which run will be the last together“ That is the reason why she is
truly grateful and happy for the possibility to do this. I am
looking forward to hear more about this impressive person Hello to
our swedish agility woman Annika Af Klercker