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Enzo’s Head turn practice
Here is a sample of our head turn work. He does it quite well (as I understand) to his left. His head “snaps” around and I tried to click as he snapped. To his right, it is less sharp.
Video: head-turn
Question1: do you want me to use my wrap verbal cues?
I am not a huge fan of multiple wraps but was convince by Jennifer Crank to work on them. Enzo will do multiple jump wraps but not, as I’m sure you can guess, very tight.
Question2: Do you want multiple wraps of the pole?
Question3: Do you want to see his multiple jump wraps?
Barb
Hi Tracy,
I decided to finish up the skills so I could move along. With temperatures in the high 80’s and low 90’s, we moved indoors.
I really struggle trying to follow the lines you drew. If I can’t a suggestion for a better way, I’d be right out with it. I almost think, for people who process words better than pictures (me, me), you might include a verbal: Jump 2 turn right; jump 3 turn left. I’m not sure. I just know that for each one, I stood there in my barn for a ridiculously long time staring at the paper. Also, I probably did some wrong. Also, I think 4 and 5 are the same?
Here is skill 4: ex 4
This video has 6,7,8: ex 6,7 & 8
Where I did it more than once, it was because I thought the first one was lousy.
I will put the head-turn in the separate thread.
I hope to work on the novice sequences later today and maybe the master’s ones also. I see Novice 2 and Novice 3 but not Novice 1?? (So happy they are the same build!!)
Barb
Hi Tracy,
While waiting on the head-turn video, I decided I’d better move along, since you and I are perfectly capable of obsessing on #1 and implications for the full 2 weeks.
Here is #2. I did it as shown and then I did a mirror to answer the question: “Does he turn better one way than the other?” It appears to me that he turns right better than left.
Then I did #3. All right turns and it looked pretty good. I took 4 once as a slice and once as a wrap. Then I went off in a corner to obsess on backside wraps. 😉 Actually, while that’s what I wanted to do the temperature is 90+ and we went inside to the air conditioning.
Thanks,
Barb“…if that doesn’t produce the weight shit…” I don’t think it will. <grin>
I will be interested in seeing your head turn video.I think we’ve done some zigzags but not many; I’ll keep on with them.
Also, I’ll try to move along to exercise #2 tomorrow.
Barb
Hi Tracy,
Thanks for the quick response! PLEASE send us your cold weather – so hot and nasty in Michigan.
I think I don’t understand your comment about the stop-sign hand on the backside wrap. Here is my attempt to understand. I don’t think I want the blind but it felt like it should help. Don’t think it did. Looking at my video, I feel like I was executing what I intended (maybe not what you meant 😉 ). In all cases, he is jumping the bar on a slice. I could use a prop (cone or plunger) but I don’t generally like to do that because the behavior disappears when the prop does. [Think of poor Patt’s backsides.] Notice that there is a marked difference between his “push” (wrap) efforts and his “around” (slice) ones. The rep at :27 is not too bad. The one at :37 starts ok but he slips on his shoulder. This might explain why he is always slicing.
Would be cool if the verbal were zip – actually it is “flip”. I have worked on it quite a bit but it always needs warming up before using it “for real”. Not sure I’m going to be able to depend on it when the time comes. Oh well, we’ll see. The UKI courses have been such that I have needed it a few times.
This next video shows Enzo doing the zigzags. Except that I have trouble setting them up, they look pretty good to me. Do you agree? If so, what is the next step?
Thanks!
BarbWell, Tracy, you gotta laugh. I managed to get through page 1 before we both got too hot to continue. Although, in bright sunlight and 75 degrees, 10 minutes is probably plenty.
1. The very first rep, Enzo crashed the stanchion. I’m sorry for him but glad that I have it on tape. This happens a couple times a week, which is way too often. Looking at the video, it isn’t obvious to me that I lost connection or whatever. I included a slo-mo of that part but I don’t have to if you don’t need it.
2. This looks almost the same (to me) on the video. I know that I “stared” at him more on this one.
3. Forced front version
4. Threadle version
5. Wrap version #1
6. Wrap version #2
I wish he would perform more of the turn on the ground before take-off. It seems that he has plenty of advanced warning. (?)All the rest are flips or failed flips. He apparently doesn’t know this as well as I thought. Well, 12 went straight on purpose.
At the rate we are going, it’s a darn good thing we have 2 weeks to get through the material!
If the weather stays beastly, we will go in the barn; it has a/c. Unfortunately, Enzo isn’t as gung-ho in the barn. 😊
Thanks,
BarbToo funny!! I read that as “fluffy Border Collie”. Now it makes sense. 🙂 I could have figured out “fluffy Blind Cross”…
Hi Tracy,
Yes, this makes sense! Except the reference to “fluffy” BC; that sounds like an in-joke that I don’t get. The picture does not include any dogs, just 3 sequences. It needed to be loaded into a separate tab but I did get it!
AND, I now understand what you meant about the FBC, BC and timing. I was trying to create two sequences which were sort of the same. You were looking at how the handling could be misunderstood in a way that I hadn’t considered. And now I have. 🙂
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Obsessing a bit on the timing and BC discussion. 😉
I set up a bit of BC/Japanese and FC/Forced Front in my barn. Well, I set up the 3 jumps; I wish the tunnel/A-frame had been 15 feet further away. So, it isn’t the best setup, since I would just use a simple backside in real life, but it serves for discussion purposes.
After working this exercise, it seemed to me as if the difference was not in timing but path. The BC and FC are both front-side jumps and the Japanese and FF are backsides. Yes?
My examples: video
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Thanks for the great review – and quick! It was a thorough and careful review and it all made sense, except “you were actually too early on the BC at 1:31”. I don’t understand that:
the handling that was used created the correct line and the dog easily read which side of the handler to drive to. How can that be too early?I think that when you say “forced blind” it is what I mean when I say “Japanese”. And that doesn’t apply to this kind of setup, given my direction of travel. Or, if it does, I can’t picture it.
Otherwise, all good.
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Of course I meant to do each of 3 exercises (straight, FC, BC) both clockwise and counterclockwise. You can’t prove it from the video. 😊
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Yes, it does make sense – interesting observation about the direction my feet are pointing. I’ll have to check that out. 😊
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
I started this week with the tunnel games. One of the things we are working on is placed toys. So, after a couple of reps throwing the toy, I placed it. Then I put out 2 toys at all times: one for the straight path and one for the turn. He was never so far off that he got the wrong toy. 😊 I only included a few reps to give you the idea of how this training went. In particular, it might look like I went straight, turn, straight, turn. I didn’t do that but I pulled out most of the redundant reps to shorten the video.
Enzo has quite a lot of experience around tunnels and I wondered about the left/right verbals. I started with “go on” and “left”. The camera was not perfectly placed and I wasn’t sure if he was getting the verbal or coming out and going with my presentation (motion and which direction I was facing).
Then we had a nice nap and replaced some tunnel bags and worked on “go on” and “right”. After a few reps, I stopped the camera and looked at it. Even with 3 “rights” in a row, Enzo remained honest about not knowing where he was going until he exited. <sigh>
I then did a few tunnel brakes (rhythm change, chk-chk noise and name). He understood those beautifully and came out of the tunnel hard on the right turn. Or, when I didn’t do it he came out straight and fast.
I think, in this case, I will go with the “irritation/motivation” theory: until I am irritated enough by having to use a tunnel brake instead of a verbal, I will hold off on more teaching of left and right in this space.
Here is the video: Enzo Tunnels
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
I set up the grid indoors, since I’m not trusting the weather right now. Since he has seen grids before (although not recently), I did 3 of them: stationary, walk, jog. I thought they went well but I’m not a very good judge of jumping.
So, here is the video: grid
Barb
Well, one thing I think is that Enzo is going to have to run fast NOT based on my scrambling off the start. That is not a feasible long-term solution for me. 😊 When I do the running DW, I come off a standard course already completely gassed; I can’t plan to start pushing hard.
I am really happy that the FC reps went well. I generally prefer FC’s but with Lollie I had to do mostly blinds (facing her slowed her down). Glad Enzo doesn’t feel that way.
I might be able to improve the BC by “snapping” my head around instead of floating around. Something I will play with if the sun every reappears.
Barb
