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Hi again, Tracy,
Here is jumpers’ number 1: https://youtu.be/XQfPk7oklYg
Apparently, I didn’t do a final walk – maybe my brain was fried.Some thoughts:
– Enzo pleased and surprised me on how well he read
the 1-2-3 FC handling.
– I decided to do the flick on #6 so that I could be
ahead at 7 and get him looking the correct
direction–toward #8–and it worked
-I got a refusal at #12 (sloppy handling, we were both there)
so I just went around again and continued.Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Drive home was typical – I had to consume a LOT of caffeine but we made it ok.
Thanks for the proofing ideas on the stopped contacts. My previous experience with them was (1) Malinois who got it and was perfect with very little ongoing training and (2) Patt whose contacts slowly fell apart over time. I really need Enzo to be perfect on the stopped behaviors (teeter, table, start line).
I took a quick look at the jumper’s courses; not sure how many I’ll get to do but #3 looked like the most fun, so I’m doing that one first. Happily, I built it on Friday.
Ran it today (8/29). Temp 83; feels like 89.
Here is the last walk: https://youtu.be/EEvuE-7M1us
Here is the run: https://youtu.be/qxv7E_Fo4pw
Alas, we couldn’t get through it clean. I really underestimated how far down to 7 I would need to be in order to be successful with 6-7-8-9. I didn’t go back to 1 but restarted with the weaves. Second time through was the charm. The other part that was sketchy was 13-14-15; I needed more turning cues on 13. Maybe a spin would have been nice. 😊Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Here is this morning’s work on the standard courses from package 5. I did include the final walk with each one but I’m not sure there are more comments on my walk versus run. I’m in a light blue top and black shorts.
Course 1: https://youtu.be/JH0DBUr5FcQ
On course #1, we had two repeating problems:
– Weave entry
– Ending.
I was surprised he had trouble with the weave entry, just because he almost never does. However, I found that if I didn’t cue “weave!” while he was in the tunnel, he came out too hot to make the entry.
The ending was just a case of having an infeasible plan. I wanted a backside slice to a Japanese and pull. I found I couldn’t get myself turned around enough to support the Japanese (after more tries than are in this video!). I had to change to two backside slices and a tandem turn.You can also see on this tape Enzo’s frustration behavior: he chews on the wheels of the dog walk (or any other small wheels). I don’t know why he picked “chew wheels” but when he runs off to chew on wheels, you know he is frustrated/angry.
Just a comment: you can see that the problem I have with the teeter at home is that he stops short (4 on) instead of 2o2o. At a seminar or trial, he comes off the teeter entirely and keeps going. I find this to be a hard problem: when the symptoms are totally different at home compared to away.
Course 2: https://youtu.be/RJ6JP4TPORs
This course was easier for us. As I walked to the starting line, I realized that I could do a blind after the A-frame and make the discrimination on the tunnel much easier. So I walked it with the tunnel-threadle and ran it with a BC and a forward send.Thanks,
BarbHI Tracy,
Wow – Enzo and I had such a great time on Saturday! It was so great to have a difficult (very difficult) course that we could do some of and that, after coaching/practice, we could do more of. So uplifting!
Hope to do it again, soon. You might recall I jumped into this course because a spot opened up unexpectedly. Are you doing any more seminars soon? Anyone else I can contact…?
Moving right along…. For Agility-U course, will the videos continue to be available after the feedback period ends (9/1)? I am skipping ahead a bit, to maximize feedback on the more difficult things. But I will go back and do a more detailed review on the pieces (skill sets & sequences).
(I hope to run some of the package 5 standard courses tomorrow…)
Thanks,
BarbRegarding your comments on jumpers course #2 (“A decision idea: I think slicing the other way on 2 will be faster (going to the entry wing on the side further from the tunnel so he can land facing the tunnel – it should set up a better exit line and also shorter yardage so it will be faster.)”)
I gave that a lot of thought, although I did not run it both ways to compare – the weather is beastly. What decided me was the angle into the tunnel. Going the way I did, it was a straight shot into the tunnel which should yield greater speed. Going the other way would definitely be shorter but it is more of a turn into the tunnel. The way I built it, it seemed like a big factor at the time.
At least I considered both approaches. In today’s course, I didn’t even consider turning the faster way until my buddy Mark Bills pointed it out. <sigh>
The most egregious problem, imo, is the “turn” at 14. You are suggesting a better change of motion but it seems to me I am not in a position to show acceleration and deceleration. When he is in the air over 13, I am almost at 14. I needed to show the path (14 not any of the other nearby jumps). I can see what you are saying but I’m not seeing how to fix it. If I do a hard decel as he is over 13, he will turn towards me and bypass 14 altogether (or take the backside of 15). This is where I try to use my verbal (“left!”) to help.
[As you already know, I am hesitant to invest too much time in rehearsing change of pace during walk throughs, because it isn’t possible to do that in real life. ]
Thanks!
BarbHi Tracy,
Fooled me. The first jumpers I did was the one which was in the CRCD code. That was #2. Here is #1.
Walk: https://youtu.be/jpKHQmR4SgA
I only walked for a bit less than 5 minutes but I had studied the course map for a LOOOONG time. I felt well prepared.Final Walk-through: https://youtu.be/KhorTMj00DQ
Just the last one at speed. I tried to go fast enough.Run: https://youtu.be/1DzdK6jjag8
There are actually 2 runs. In the first one, I didn’t get Enzo to the #13 backside. As I explained, I couldn’t rely on my verbal (flip) to support that path; I needed more motion. I still think coming inside and flipping was a better plan than sending to the outside, mostly due to the dog’s lead.Compare: https://youtu.be/4V5IWFlxeV4
This time I’m going a bit too fast. <sigh>Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
We have moved on to jumpers. 😊
Walk: https://youtu.be/r7OTCl_6hTQ
Only one interruption in the walk (when I shouted “only 5 minutes”) and I was able to keep going. You can see where I grab my course map to confirm that 11 is, indeed, a backside.
(My system is SO SLOW with uploading anything longer than about a minute; when I submitted this note, it was still working on this video. The others were up.)Final walk-through: https://youtu.be/QMhrQYGapuo
Run: https://youtu.be/pEJ3N8Ho1V0
Well, he is running very wide but that’s what it looks like in trials, also.Comparison: https://youtu.be/TDpd2tSZ-yU
This was interesting, I think. My walk-though is significantly slower than my actual run (you’ll recall in standard I was a little slower or almost on time). I tried syncing them up at various places and I fell way behind almost immediately. Huh. Maybe after I mow, I’ll be able to try the next jumpers course and focus on walking much faster.Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
I hope to make time to work on one of the Jumpers courses tomorrow and see if we can have more success comparing the walk through with the run. As far as your comments, I agree but also there is more training required on the Tunnel Brake. When he was much younger, and we both knew fewer things, he had a pretty nice one. Now, I think we had better revisit that foundational training.
See you Saturday!!
Barb
Hi Tracy,
As far as those judges, I guess I’ll keep that list to myself. tee hee
Well, I did try #3 but had another technical foul-up. So irritating. One more chance for standard.
This one (Standard #2) is above our pay grade. First, any course which requires me to sprint the DW at about the same time as the dog does, is likely not going to go well. In addition, my handling for 13 to 16 was basically fantasy handling (point and hope). So that, also, didn’t go very well. At least we gave it a try.
At the time I posted this, the “walk” video was still uploading. This is my second try; very, very slow!!
Walk: https://youtu.be/xHwZqK0IpKk
(Even in this example, I was interrupted during the walk and had to restart. <sigh>)Run: https://youtu.be/VyV8nS5qU3c
Although I walked two different verbals on 7 and 8 (7 “around” for the slice and 8 “push” for the wrap), on the first run I used “around” for both and got two slices. Then the “switch” on #9 resulted in a very wide turn — he cast so wide he saw his toy (naughty!).The first time through, he came off the DW to the jump pretty well but not the second time. One or both of us were tired(?). On the second run, I managed to get 6 to 12 to run the way I wanted them to. Still no love on 14-16 and I called it a day.
Compare: https://youtu.be/_f3kFv_MKCA
It only made a bit of sense to do this, since the run fell apart pretty soon.Thanks,
BarbHi Again,
OK – we’ll try to do better!
I really screwed up on the first standard course. I set the 8 minutes on my phone which was also doing the video. Therefore, I got the video of walking the course but when I stopped the timer, it also stopped the video. Yuck. No point in running it now for the video, it would be our 3rd run. On the first run, I didn’t get enough turn from the short tunnel to get the weave entry. I tried spinning it without success. I had to make a gigantic tunnel brake to get enough turn to make the weave entry.
(All running DW’s were awful; just saying. I am making a career out of finding judges who don’t judge contacts. I can send you a list, if you want. 😊 )
So, I’ll try again with course #2. Later today or tomorrow.
Barb
ps: temp is 80 degrees.
Hi Tracy,
Regarding your feedback:
– Why do you say it is the FC which causes him to add a stride between 4 & 5? The FC was completed BEFORE he lifted for 4, therefore I don’t see why it would be the cause of his extra stride. Yes, he added a weird little hop before 5 but I would have chalked that up to “inexperienced baby” not “poor handling choice”. It is true that I MUCH prefer a FC over a BC with Enzo because he is so inexperienced. If I take my eye off him, he can go all kinds of unexpected places and, since I’m blind to it, I can’t fix it.
– Yes, on the 7-8-9 line, I did not run it the way I walked it (alas, this happens a lot). My thinking was that he was coming into 8 too “hot” to make the line I wanted, so I let him do the blind and we avoided a collision. The grass was extremely long and desperate to be cut which contributed to his falling on his head.
I hope to finish mowing tomorrow and set up the standard course for walk then run training. (Also, my desktop is very sick and I’m trying to make do with phone and iPad. Sigh. It never rains but it pours).Thanks!
BarbHi Tracy,
Everything has been a bit fouled up and I haven’t been able to spend nearly the time on Agility-U stuff that I wanted to. Oddly enough, there have been some times when I did the exercises but couldn’t find time to edit the video and send. Then yesterday, my PC pretty much croaked. After my hubby worked on it a while, I can use mail and Word but the internet is a fail. In particular, YouTube is not working properly.
Bottom line, I didn’t watch your video before doing the sequence of walk then run (it wouldn’t play). I finally got smart and watched it on my phone but not until after I’d done the exercise. So it’s not exactly right. However, I had some friends over, so my walk-through was more realistic than if I just did it by myself. Then my friends cleared out so I could do the final one.
It is taking for-freaking-ever to upload this video but I know what the link is, so I’ll send that:
Thanks,
BarbHelp, help.[I called Apple for support and actually talked to a person in less than an hour. Will miracles never cease? Turns out my iPad is so old it cannot be updated to the latest operating system version. Therefore, I can’t get the latest iMovie version. I’m guessing this is the problem.]
The only place where I have 3 dots on my iMovie is when I first open it up. when I select the 3 dots, I get “Import Project” and “View iMovie Theater”. Once I select a project, the 3 dots disappear. Here is a move of my iMovie. <sigh> Maybe you’re using something else…?
As far as using iMovie, I always select “Movie” as opposed to “Trailer”. Then I select “Create Movie” and then I got to “video” to import recent videos.
I can remember successfully running videos side by side but I don’t even remember how to do that, now. Certainly don’t see how to do the overlay. I did go to the App store to see if it would download a new version. Maybe I should delete the one I have and get a new one?
Here is what I see…https://youtu.be/MypiRDAFOcE
Thanks (sorry). [I’ll bring all my devices on the 21st and maybe you can show me.]
BarbHi Again, Tracy!
First, here is course 3: https://youtu.be/MAnfbb-H6Nk
My thought was the hard part would be the turn from the #8 tunnel to the #9 tunnel, especially since we’ve been shooting down to the other entrance. Therefore, I planned a HUGE tunnel brake and got him where needed. 😊Second, I did some obsessing on course 2: https://youtu.be/FoxHYntvNaI
It is early morning, so even though the humidity is really high, the temperature is only 74, so we did a number of reps of #5 through #10. I had a lot of handling choices! I zoomed in so you can see the end of the weaves and the important part. The timings are from #6 to the wing of #10:1. Blind 6-7; hard decel; whiskey #8 and pull — — 6.6
2. FC 6-7; hard decel; whiskey #8 and pull — — 6.8
3. Blind 6-7; blind 7-8; and pull — — 6.7
4. Blind 6-7; blind 7-8; and pull — — 6.6
5. Blind 6-7; hard decel; whiskey #8 and pull (same as 1) — — 6.7Looking at the video, I wish I’d done one with 2 blinds and a Jaakko exit on #8; oh well. I pulled up the run from yesterday and that section was 7.0, so at least these were an improvement!
Thanks,
Barb
