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Zig Zag 2 jumps – 12/8/22
I was at 6in bars for the Organizers on Tues. Will try 8in next time on slices for sure.
Kaladin says PT Is way better than dead toy. Started at 8in and went up to 10 and then back down to 8 when I flattened the angle a bit. And then to 6 when he added a stride and then decided he was probably tired and stopped.
Organizers – Slices & Wraps – 12/6/22
Did our first backside slices. Think we did better on me continuing to move on the slices. He’s still not convinced about taking the jump on the wraps – I think maybe because he’s already in a stationary position or coming to his sit. If feel like if I wasn’t asking for the sit he would be taking the jump without an issue with me rotating sooner.Organizers – Slices/Threadles/Wraps – 11/30/22
Got snowed out of our backyard and agility class yesterday so yay for having Great Mats in my basement training room. Looks like trying the Trax game in the grass is not going to happen anytime soon. Did try it in my family room on carpet and he thinks it’s fun.
Way clearer for him on the threadles using a release word & hand cue, but not his “come” cue.
Bars are still at 6in. Leave them there and try a backside wrap and/or threadle?Zig Zag 2 jumps
Decided to try the zig zags with 3ft poles inside. Harder for me to move more, but it worked better than I thought it would. Moved the standards another 4in apart and kept the height at 6in.
Dead toy is still not a draw. He did better when I did a bit of a fling into the backside slice so I could get a bit further ahead. Added a stride in a few reps and then sorted out the slightly longer distance.
Well sadly we just got 6in of snow and it’s supposed to have a high of 21 on Thursday so I think we’re done with the back yard season.
For the Trax game, how important us it to have exactly the same discs? Can I use lids of similar size and different colors?
Zig Zag – 2 jumps – 12/27/22
Moved the standards about 4in apart so they overlap less and did the 8in reps earlier so I could end with 6in. I feel like with the 3ft weave pole bars that I could have stretched the standards out a bit further as this looked easy for him.Zig Zag -2 jumps – 11/25/22
Good point about his “come” threadle slice verbal. I’ll verbally release with break and use the threadle arm, but save the “come” for when we fade the organizer.Took advantage of the melting snow to fit another backyard session in. Getting colder and snowing again next week so this may be it. I have a ring rental booked for next Saturday.
Did a variety of 4-8in heights for slices and backside slices.
2nd rep he dropped the first bar but I think I had him too close to the wing feet so he didn’t get a good start.
Organizers- Front Wrap/Slice/Threadle – 11/22/22
Can’t remember when this course ends.
Zig zags are going to be a tight fit in the winter training space, but the Organizers fit.
Apparently having the PT sitting there makes it hard to sit but it was helping him focus down more on the wraps (after he looks up at me on the platform!)Played around a bit on how to react when he got sticky. I think the best results were from treating him for the sit on the platform before releasing to the PT.
Organizers – Front Side Slice – 11/2/22
So it was 75 today but really windy. I am saying “hop it up” and then sit but not sure you can hear that. Anyway no sits before the plank at least.
First rep I did nothing to cue a slice other than my position (sort of) so good dog dor deciding a layer was what I wanted.
Organizers – Front Wrap – 11/2/22
Bit of confusion at first about whether to take the jump or not. Should I be using a cue other than his release word after he sits?
In other news, his massage therapist commented tonight that his core felt stronger and didn’t find any problems spots along his back after the trial. So I think the organizers and zig zags have definitely been helping his core.
Thanks! He really blew me away with how well he handled Ashley Deacon’s courses. (which were amazingly fun and flowing so I hope that’s what we get at the Open too. Although I did notice he’s judging Gamblers and his Gamblers for us had 2 distance options (of roughly equal difficulty) as opposed to a lower pointed gamble that didn’t involve distance. So Gamblers finals may be interesting). I am leaning towards moving him back to 16in after the Open to see how his speed is now that he’s done more conditioning and jump training with this course. He has much stiffer competition at 16in given the cutoffs letting more BCs in, but I also think he can handle the height well at least for a few years and then we can drop back to Perf 12/12select later. If I don’t like what I see, he did get a 12s masters bye for 2023 last weekend so I have a backup plan!
The Fusion UKI trials (4x/year) are great because we have a very consistent core committee plus usually someone who helps me score. And there are 2 people on the committee who also work at Fusion so they take care of any facilities issues like dealing with a dead iPad on Sat morning when we want to use Agility Gate and being out of toner for the printer at the same time so printing back up gate sheets wasn’t going well either. This is why I like to start with something uncomplicated like Speedstakes!
I think he was too close to the wing on the zig zags. I had him close thinking it would help him on the striding before we realized the moving target got him to kick it into gear. I can set him a bit further away when we pick these up again after the Open. He also does periodically seem to get something in his ear even though I can never find any issues when cleaning them or checking them out (vet finds nothing too). Maybe it’s just all the fluff attracting bugs or lint or something.
We are definitely in bubble wrap phase this week (that and frantic packing phase!) Both of us have chiro & massage appointments and I need to store my a-frame and DW in the shed before the tree trimmers get here on Wed. Plus – after that lovely RDW in Agility on Sunday I decided we weren’t doing another one until we get to Florida.
I think I will try for a short plank session with the front side wraps and/or slices.I’m debating whether it makes sense to bring the plank when I’m not also bringing a jump, don’t really have time to do stuff on the drive down and am not sure I want to be schlepping the plank over to the practice ring. I could bring my doughnut yoga mat small organizer just to do a little bit of organizer work though. Does it make sense to go back to the smaller organizer when we’ve been using the plank? Or I can see if we have space for a ready jump with a 4ft bar.
Zig Zags – 2 jumps – 10/27/22
This was from last week but I ran out of time to get them uploaded since I was trial sec for the UKI trial over the weekend. (videos on FB, but Kaladin was amaze-balls! 9 for 9 with clean runs including double-clean in Masters Series and earned his IAC & IWAC. All at 12s so I could prep at his faster speed with the lower height. And he almost ran me over on a tunnel exit when I mis-judged his massive acceleration in the 15ft tunnel. Note to self – do not run by the tunnel exit to cue a tight turn unless you send from further away and/or hustle more to get across the exit and out of his way)
Video was 2 different sessions last Thursday trying some running (4in) and less motion with 6in jumps. He had trouble on 1 backside slice at 4in, but when I dialed back the motion a bit for the next try, he nailed it.
Zig Zags 4 -Backsides – 10/25/22
Forgot to do the head turn warmup (I blame not being completely awake even after the morning walk), but he did some lovely wraps and popped right through the 2 jumps with the incentive of the Pet Tutor. I heard 1 tick (2nd to last rep) and think he ticked the jump standard foot. I am planning on going back to flattening out the 2-jumps on Thursday. With a UKI trial this weekend, I have 1 or 2 more opportunities next week before I hit the road on Sunday morning (Nov 6). Should I keep the bars down at 4in and just keep flattening the 2 jumps?
Organizers – Front Side Slice – 10/25/22
This was from a later session in the day and had a lot more comic relief than his Zig Zag work. Bar is at 6in. After the first rep I watched your video again and realized I was on the wrong side. Then I said sit too soon so he sat before the plank….then too late and he ran right through and over the bar. Is he supposed to be putting his front feet down off the plank on the takeoff side before slicing over the jump? I think I saw that happening in your demo video, but he preferred to go from plank straight to over the jump. I tried moving the plank back a bit but that had mixed results. I was going to go back to the front side wrap with a bit more of my motion on Thursday.
Organizers Front Wrap- 10-22/21
Took it outside since it was in the low 70s today. I felt like he wasn’t really paying attention to the 4in bar below the Cato plank so moved to 6in. After I did the zig zag and was noticing how nicely he focused down and forward on the moving target I tried it on the organizers just for kicks.Zig Zag 2 – 10/22/22
Definitely likes the moving target. I was purposely avoiding releasing on the lean before your last comments.
Should I be trying to flatten the jumps more next?Zig Zag 2 – 10/19/22
You called it. I moved the toy more before releasing and he bounced through with no problems, both directions and slightly more closed angles. What a little Stinker!
He had 1 disorganized rep but he was staring off to the side while I was leading out and looked back and then practically fell over his feet between the jumps. Had no issue bouncing the same angle the next time so I’m chalking that one up to being spacey.
Organizer 3 – Wing – 10/19/22
Tried it with a food dish target. Organizing well, but he still has his head up going around the wing. Maybe the best one was the last one when I pushed the dish a bit further away from the wing.
I”m not sure any camera angle is good given all his floof and the tighter space inside (got dark outside!), but he looks good from directly above.
