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Kaladin & Min – Games 5 Seq 2 – 8/28/22
Slipped Seq 2 in this morning before heading out to the Renaissance Fair (sans dogs). Starting with the layer is harder for both of them.Min
A very nice left turn out of the tunnel for her since I got a “left” out before she entered.
Kaladin
He almost turned too tight out of the last tunnel
Kaladin & Min – Games 5 Seq 1 – 8/27/22
Kaladin
Threadle wrap worked well. I also liked the BC to FC I did the 2nd time
Min
Threadle wrap wouldn’t have been my first choice at a trial, but it worked the first time here. I also liked the BC-FC for her. Doing the FC on the 270 made the layer feel a bit harder but maybe that was because my slightly lateinstant of facing her in the FC slowed her down a bit and then she had less speed going into the layer.Min & Kaladin – Live Session 4 – 8/16 & 8/18/22
Min – 8/16/22
Min had issues doing the wrap to the left and not coming in over the jump after the tunnel. (Last rep I cued her in on purpose and then decided to quit since it was getting dark)
Min 8/18/22
After turning her too early and getting 1left wrap out of her system, she was happy to wrap to her preferred right side tonight
Kaladin is feeling ambidextrous this week
Kristie,
Thanks so much for your kind words. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed watching Kaladin and I run. He’s a lot of fun.
Julie
Kaladin & Min Games 4 – 1&Done – Seq 2 – 8/10/22
I’m so excited about the fence!
These were done the same after Seq 1, but I just got around to cropping them down. In both walk throughs I think I rushed the wrap from 3-4, but Min in particular whipped through there faster than I thought she would. Both also had a better wrap to the right on 6 thanks to a bit of my decel. Especially with Min who is so small, it can be hard to remember the decel before the turns.
Kaladin thought not helping with my walk through was overrated.Min –
Kaladin
Each dog gets to do a half day with Monica Bush this weekend so we took today off and just did a nice sniffy walk on some trails.
Kaladin & Min – Games 4 – 1& Done – Seq 1 – 8/10/22
We finally have a fence!
I may have jump 3 a bit further over than it should be, but I was getting wide-ish turns on the wrap.Kaladin
Tightest wrap was when I somehow managed to step on the edge of my shoe and almost fell over. (I’m in Liz Joyce’s agility fitness class and clearly can’t think about footwork on a lateral decel while running a dog)
Min
Got a wide turn on the first try and then cued too early and pulled her off the 3rd jump on the 2nd try.
Kaladin & Min – 1& Done – Seq 3 – 7/29/22
Did these later in the day from Seq 2 and just realized I hadn’t trimmed them down and posted them!Kaladin – I think I did a better job staying connected on the FC wrap on 3 in the walk….even though I hadn’t gotten your feedback from Seq 2 before I ran this. If the tree wasn’t right there I probably would have done the BC like I did with Min or a RC to go left instead.
Min
She’s a pipsqueak so I hustled up to do the BC and turned her left in front of the tree.
Kaladin & Min – Threadle Wrap – 8/4/22
Kaladin – had one goofy one where he cut behind me to the other side.
Min did much better with treats from my hand, but we had 2 instances where I think I was moving too quickly or got too far ahead as she kept coming with me past the wing and then spun to the left in place.
Kaladin & Min – 1&Done – Seq 2 – 7/29/22
Min – She ran clean the first time, but I wanted to see if FCs produced tighter turns than blinds for her so I re-walked (and didn’t realize she was joining in until the 2nd half) and re-ran. FCs did have tighter turns and I don’t think she sacrificed speed -just dug in more.
Kaladin – I got a bit ahead of him going into 6&7 and then stupidly waved my hand back and forth so he missed 7, but he had amazing wraps on the BCs. Re-walked the 2nd part and re-ran.
Kaladin & Min – 1&Done – Seq 1 – 7/28/22
Catching up on my video editing!These were fun! Both fluffballs nailed it the first time. Glad I watched your demo video first. I originally had too much layering on the brain and was going to run down the opposite side of the tunnel while they did jumps 6&7, but that probably wouldn’t have worked well when they were coming out of the wrap on 5.
Kaladin
Min
Kaladin & Min – Threadle Wrap – 7/27/22
I did an abbreviated version of the first few steps & cut out a few additional successful reps in the video. Both dogs had 2 short sessions (before work & at lunch) that I mashed together.Kaladin
Had an early error in the first session where we went to the outside, but just look at him pounce on a nearly dead Nemo when I dropped it behind me! Steam was coming out of his ears in the 2nd session for sure.
Min
This was plagued by her first not being able to find tossed treats in the grass and then for the 2nd session taking a bit of convincing to get Nemo instead. I think I might have had a toe turn out a bit to the wing around 1:20 but am not seeing another reason for her going to the outside. At 2:00, I really don’t know what I did to cause that debacle. I feel like I can keep working on this “for fun”, but when the chips are down, I had better have worked on my own sprinting to get ahead and handle these situations some other way.
And in answer to your earlier question about fading the wing, that’s the only wing I have that fits next to my weave pole base. The clip & go ones have those feet and they don’t have enough clearance to fit over the crossbar on the weaves without leaning at a crazy angle.
Kaladin & Min – Games 2 Independent Weaves – 7/24/22
Kaladin –
Not sure why he completely missed them once. Maybe because I went in closer than I have been?
Min
She’s doing much better on these. I probably should have added in fading off to the side as she weanes.
Min & Kaladin – Live Session #2 – 7/21/22
Min got to play on the sequences the next morning.
Kaladin must have been processing overnight. He thought layering the jump to send to the tunnel was no problem even after doing the right to the jump first. Then we started doing variations like testing that he could turn 3 ways with me on his right instead of his left. (last rep I was clearly undecided about my arms but luckily he ignored them waving around)
Tunnel Fun at the UKI Trial – July 17, 2022
I got some great turns out of tunnels with Min over the weekend, but then we hit our limit in Snooker, her last run on Sunday. Apparently too many tunnels (with good turns) in a row is a bit much for her and also for me to spit out the directional soon enough. After a brilliant 1-7-1-7-1-5 opening (where 7 was 3 almost straight tunnels in a 90deg configuration), I got a left out before she entered the #2 tunnel but not soon enough. She catapulted out of the tunnel and straight over the finish jump which was pretty darn far away from me.
Mr Kaladin was quite brilliant with all the fancy handling moves and even beat Min’s time in SS by 0.25sec (a first for him on the same course I think), but a bit too experimental in his a-frame and dogwalk performances. He was also popping weaves on the 2nd entry back to the poles. After he did it twice on Sunday, I ran him NFC in his Agility classes to work on contacts and skip the weaves. He had a massage already scheduled for tonight and turns out he had some sore spots that definitely explained his recent weave issues. (esp the left trapezius which would make it hard to push back to the right for that 2nd weave entry). He’s skipping his class tomorrow to take it easy, but we think he’ll be fine to do the live session on Wed. (or maybe I”ll sub Min in for a rep or two…this is of course assuming we all don’t keel over from the heat first)
Kaladin & Min – Games 2 – Ind Weaves – 7/14/22
We snuck in an evening session because it’s supposed to be stormy tomorrow morning. We’re doing UKI over the weekend so we won’t be back to camp until next Tues.
Some steam coming our of Kaladin’s fluffy ears this time too. The first time he managed to fit between the wing & the weave pole. I had left a few inches there because I was worried the cross supports on the wing would get in his way on the approach and he almost got himself stuck between there. Good thing fluff compresses. And on the offside Weaves I had to laugh when he stopped dead and gave me this look of – what on earth is this wing doing in my way? I didn’t get too crazy on the entry angles or me moving faster since he had those hilarious oopsie moments. We did a straighter entry with me running ahead to finish and he nailed that.
Min did a lot better and I was able to turn and start moving sooner. I flipped around too quickly at 0:33 but in general I thought this was much better.
Should I try for more speed on my part next or do more around the clock entries and some RCs?
