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AHA! I managed to sneak in a second post before you got to the previous one. Must be all the sleep you are missing watching our team in Europe!!
Here we are doing the week 4 “Raise Your Game” challenges. I did tape my walk-through’s – you know how much I love to do that <snicker>!
Sequence 1:
Of course, the first one is one I studied, so less walk-through. Here is Enzo:
I was totally pleased with Enzo’s run, so decided to give Casper a try. He jumps 20, so I lowered the bars. I also thought he would have more trouble with the “around” backside (slice), so I tried to get closer to #8. Wheeee – he was so wide, that was not a problem. First time through, I had his toy on the ground: caused quite a look 4 to 5. Yes, that is a training thing I need to work on…! I was pretty pleased with how he caught up to the correct side right before the end. Second time, I had the toy in my pocket. Except for dropping the backside bar, I thought this one went rather well.
Casper (no walk): https://youtu.be/aWdmjFz396ISequence 2:
I saved you from watching Enzo try his wings: first dropped #1; second no stay; third is what you see; also a goat rodeo but at least we were working together (sort of). I had to rewalk especially as regards my position at #6 and moving quickly to support #7. Second run was quite nice:
Sequence 3:
On the third time through with the same obstacles, I am always surprised I remember any of it. I have done this a lot, since I often work through courses by Birgitta Hermansson and she will have as many as 6 courses on the same setup. I think I have improved but not that much. At any rate, the first run was quite a mess and I skipped the 8-9-10 loop. Also, to my horror, he had trouble with the #6 backside. So I re-walked a bit and tried again. There was nothing lovely and “tight” about the second run but it was clean and not too terrible. I thought the 9-10-11 sequence was too loose and he was very wide on the wrap at 12. Compared to the original run, however…
(I have been looking through my notes for a sentence like “only 5 minutes of video per week” and haven’t found it. Of course, if I cut out all the walking… <grin>)
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Regarding Week 3 Standard, I went back and forth in my mind about which side of #1 to go from; I agree that I made the “wrong” choice when I ran it. Also, I was surprised that I had to help with jump#3 and I agree that more practice with counter motion is needed (rats – I thought we had that).
The lousy RC at #10 – I also thought that a BC between 9 and 10 would be nice but in the moment it wasn’t going to happen. I was happy to “catch” him before he went off course.
On the DW, it is generally critical to give him his exit plan as early as possible. The flying arm was probably the cause of the initial problem; not sure what I was thinking…. We have been off work for a while, so I’m chalking it up to “out of practice”.
Not sure if I believe “layer the A-frame” will make the line “very easy” but I’ll agree it would help. Alas, the course has been taken down so the nice man could mow.
Thanks for all the great feedback!
Question: What are you using for the video overlays?? There was a Dartfish tool but it was VERY expensive. Did you spring for it?
On to week 4!!
Thanks,
BarbThanks for the feedback Tracy!
Personal update:
On July 4, Ken (husband) broke his femur in a fall. I was at a seminar but friends took him to the ER where they took x-rays and said it was a bad bone bruise. I got home late that night. Ken gimped around on crutches for a week and it just got worse. Back to ER for CT scan and MRI and **surprise** it was broken. Surgery. PT. Walker. It has been tough all around, although, of course, most tough for him.Anyway, that is half of why we can’t get anything done. The other half is the weather: HOT! I tried to do the standard course earlier in the week. It was the first time ever that Enzo finished a run and zoomed to the shade by the gate to go back to the house. I discarded that video.
Here is what we came up with today. Except for the part where he appears to have totally forgotten his running DW, I wasn’t too unhappy.
Thanks,
BarbAnd here is Enzo trying out the jumping courses. I suppose I should look at the hints but I think that failure to find a good plan is one of the things I should be working on.
In keeping with my understanding of what you prefer, here are the first 2 runs of jumpers’ course #1. The first run was a bit of a mess; I planned the BC from 3 to 4 but had to RC instead but kept going. Got the first side of 7 and swung around to repeat. Screwed up 16 because I couldn’t get the correct turn out of the tunnel. Fixed that and was good after that except skipping 21.
Second time through was better. Still missed the #7 backside and #16 backside but the rest was ok.
On the second jumpers’ course, we had even more trouble. <sigh> Although, I think I caused a bit of my own problems by putting 15 on the wrong side. First time through, we missed the #14 backside and I tried to recover and then had to give up and re-walk the course. The second time through was much better, although we got the wrong side of 17 (maybe to make up for labeling 15 wrong).
Thanks!
BarbHi Tracy,
Thanks for the feedback on Casper – I am quite proud of those weaves. Still need more entries and proofing but at least I can do them from a distance without running right alongside.
Yes, jump grids are more important than courses at this point. He is a very cheerful guy and will jump anything. Our plan (read “Jen Pinder’s plan”) is to do sequences at 16” for now.
As far as his sequencing, I liked a lot of it. On course 3, I was nowhere near the BC before the tunnel. While I think Casper will be faster than Enzo, I don’t think he is that much faster. All I can say is I couldn’t get there. He has had almost no work on RC’s on tunnels. To be honest, his RC on jumps need work! One more thing on the list. I had forgotten how long the list is.
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Regarding Enzo:
For sequence 1, I’m sure better acceleration/deceleration would help but I’m trying to be a bit realistic on what is reasonable handling. The temperature was really hot and I just wasn’t moving too fast (well, I’m no longer 35, so I don’t really move FAST any more). I like the idea of a brake arm. <grin>For sequence #2, I did the FC between 5 and 6 so early because of needing to square him to the line from 6 to the tunnel. I thought the “normal” timing would send him straight into the side of the tunnel about half way down. But it is interesting that you liked it so early. <grin> As far as the BC leading up to 10, I might be able to do it sooner but I’m not going to fail to make connection as he leaves the tunnel. I learned that rule long ago and am very reluctant to let go of it. I totally agree that Jaacko exit from #10 would be better. Not sure why I didn’t, that is usually one of my go-to’s. I’m guessing that I wanted to watch the turn.
Sequence #3, after a lot of thought and studying, I came to understand what you meant by “move forward on the FC out of 6 rather than do a post turn to face 6 then FC”. That is an interesting perspective that I need to learn how to adopt. I am more likely to stand my ground and force the dog’s path than trust that moving forward will also change his path. It’s more that I don’t think of it…
THANKS!
BarbTracy,
Please feel free to ignore this if it is too outside the rules. My theory is that we missed most of package 2 and didn’t finish package 1, so it might be okay to include a bit of Casper doing a some of the raise your game challenge.
If you do look, I edited this so much that you got the first run but not the perfected one. That is most obvious on 1A, where he missed the jump after the tunnel.
Thanks,
BarbOh dear, my homework thread was on page 3 (no entries for 2 weeks). I always think of summer as a time to relax and work on-line courses but I forget about vacations and other trips and seminars and other things that eat up my time. (Then my husband fell, bruised his hip badly and is on crutches.)
So, I decided to concede that I will not finish this course and just jumped right into package 3. Here is Enzo doing the Raise Your Game challenges.
Sequence #1A
I thought this was pretty good, except for the turn from 5 to 6. I flung him on the slice and let him drift. (I tried to improve it at the start of sequence 32
Sequence #1B
I tried to fix Seq #1A from #5 to# 6 with a verbal and spin. That should have resulted in a MUCH tighter turn but only helped a little. (Homework needed). Then I did #1B. It was very similar to #1A but I sent to the other side of the weaves.
Sequence #2
I did this twice because the send to the weaves was “too lazy” on the first rep and he went to the wrong end. Otherwise, I was pretty happy with it. I had had some concerns about the wrap around #10 but I pulled out the big guns (position, facing, hand, eyes, verbal) and it wasn’t bad at all.
Sequence #3
Even though we FINALLY had weather with temperatures in the 70’s (versus high 80’s and low 90’s), Enzo had pretty much had it by this time. I went in and got the good food and he decided he could manage one more effort. <grin> I did it twice because he was SO WIDE from #7 to #8. Of course, some of that is the attraction of the weaves. <grin> The second try was much better, except maybe the BC before the tunnel was a bit abrupt <snicker>.
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Enzo is back in the saddle; just a wound on this foot that needed to heal. Can’t imagine how he got it — stepped on a sharp rock or stick, maybe.
We set up the Raise your Game Challenges first – as directed! Enzo had only a little trouble with them. I wanted it to be a touch harder, so I used a wingless jump as the “out jump”. The “barrier” we used was a sheet pulled across some jump standards. My jump wings are not very visually blocking. Of course, there was a lot more toy play than I included in the video! The last sequence had some bar-dropping issues. I didn’t include all of them! I do notice that I use “OUT”, “GET OUT”, “GO”, “GO JUMP” and “GO ON”. <Sigh>
At the end, we put the DW across the tunnel and I learned some new stuff. In particular, Enzo can’t do a wrap away from me if I am behind the DW. (He did it nicely in the video above, but I was closer.) I tried both “SWITCH” (turn away), “CHECK” (wrap left wing) and “LEFT” (supposed to be a 90 degree turn) but nothing worked. Looks like more training required. <grin> (since this is the wise-guy video, I’ll understand if you don’t actually review it.
(by the way, for some reason the “CAMP 2023 Package 2 Overview” video had the visual and aural output just ever so slightly out-of-sync. )
Barb
Enzo was on injured reserve Monday, so I put in Casper for the JWW course. He is definitely not ready to string that many things together. Hee-hee. Maybe not worthwhile but you might take a look (Bruce says sorry about the thumb). I’ll try to do better on the next set assuming weather and everything.
Barb
Double Rats! I did them (the second time) in reverse order, since the cones were all out!
Here is course 1:
BarbHi Tracy,
Here are the re-do’s.
For course #1, we tried the beginning various ways. The RC was a fail but I got the BC and a revised version of the lead-out push. I had to redo the end because of laziness. <oops>
For course #2, we just went out and re-ran it with your advice. I think it went well except I didn’t give enough turning cues at #20 and he went backside on #21. Otherwise, not bad. And that’s plenty of reps on this course.
Thanks!
BarbHi Again,
Here is package 1 agility course 2:
I will spare you watching him fly the DW the first couple of times. Not sure what the deal was but it wasn’t acceptable. Then I praised the good one and he looked back to enjoy his praise and went into the wrong end of the tunnel. After all that, we were both a bit tired of the course and hadn’t actually done any of it! (The DW’s that followed were not very good but I figured it was time to move on).
The first part of the video goes along for a while until there were too many mistakes and I forgot where we were going.
The next try has an error I want you to see (yeah) because it is happening at trials. We were going along, 12-13-14 to backside of #1. I think this kind of error is caused by confusion between layering things and considering my position. Obviously, he didn’t get a turn cue at 14. I thought the “forward send” at 14 would include coming back but obviously Enzo and I did not see them the same way. Fixed that and went on to what I thought was a lovely Ketchker at 16 but Enzo didn’t. Fixed that and finished up.
At that point, I figured I should just wait for some feedback.
One advantage of very hot, very dry weather is that the lawn doesn’t need mowing as much. I should have the course up for a few more days.
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Here is package 1 agility course 1:
– First run: A couple of bars down (first was clearly a connection break); didn’t get the backside after the DW
– Second run: cleared up the connection issue, ran hard to get the backside after the DW; trouble after the A-frame
– Third run: start at tunnel to DW; ok but forgot what came after the teeter (sigh)
– Fourth run: “almost clean” <grin>
The first run really wasn’t too bad but I didn’t succeed in cleaning it completely up. Nice course!
Barb
Hi Tracy,
Random question: will you always use 15′ tunnels? I see that the 2 tunnels in week 1 are 15′. And so is the tunnel in the “Raise your Game” section.
Next time I’ll notice before I build it but maybe could you put obstacle #1 at the bottom of the page, please? Some of us (me, anyway) have very rigid spatial relationship skills. For example, I can only play red in backgammon.
Also, THANKS so much for sharing a bit early–I am building today (Sunday) and will play tomorrow in the morning. Hopefully before it is too hot!
Barb
