I wish they would always say how many weeks it's been since the last groom. I'm sick to death of customers watching RU-vid and thinking dogs can be finished in one hour when they haven't been touched for 3 months.
I'm puzzled, because on the first side you did, before turning the dog around, when using the trimmer on the sides of the rib cage, you were not only going in the direction of the hair growth, but also just going horizontally. Sometimes with the direction of hair growth, sometimes horizontally, all on the same area. Doesn't this result in cutting the hair unevenly, and also a bit shorter than going with the direction of growth?