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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?
Kaladin & Min – Games 2 – Layering- 7/14/22
Layering is not something we do often and in the first session we discovered that I can’t throw left handed and can’t aim well right-handed either (unless you think I was shooting for landing the frizzer in the shrub)Since both dogs had a few extra tunnels, we didn’t try to get to fancy beyond a balancing rep or two.
Kaladin
Min
Kaladin – Games 1 – Jpg 2 – 7/9/22
This was a bit of a hot mess in spots, especially as I experimented with how to handle around the tree. We finally put it mostly together after the break for breakfast. I haven’t done much with tunnel threadles lately so they’re a bit rusty, but he definitely does better on those when I get around to “here-here-ing” him sooner.Kaladin & Min – Skills 2 – Ind Weaves – 7/13/22
Did this before work this morning and discovered that 1) I should have zoomed out on the video more and 2) Kaladin has more independent weaves than Min. I think I finally got the shoulder turn/moving away earlier on his last rep.
In his last 2 classes, he has made a fast, relatively straight entry and then failed to collect enough so skips pole #2 and keeps going. He’s not showing any signs of that here.
Min
I think this proves that while Min can usually get challenging weave entries, I am helping her by pausing until she enters or shaping the entry just a bit
However she is happily chasing after Nemo remnants and not looking back at me while exiting poles so there is that!Min is definitely less familiar with wraps on barrels and wings. I did less with her when she was younger and that was years ago!
I had on 9-11, I had walked the FC to BC to get the tighter turn and then had a brain fart and sure enough – FC to BC was better. The ending is not helped by 1) the fact that 360 backside wraps are not her strongest skill and 2) my deck stairs are rather close to her approach.
Hopefully I’ll get Kaladin’s videos posted later tonight – you’ll have plenty to comment on there but we had a fun time with them!Min – Games 1 – Jpg 2 – 7/9/22
Did these Saturday morning but had video editing issues (Movavi Clips has sucked since an update in April caused some kind of memory issue so that you have to uninstall & reinstall to get it to work every time you open it. I haven’t had a chance to go through my list of alternatives and pick one to learn)The tree added to the difficulty of 3 to 4. Without it I would have done her favorite German Turn but the trunk is pretty wide so Min kept driving forward better when I ran around the trunk to the takeoff side of 4. Tunnel threadles are probably our weakest skill (just behind slice threadles that aren’t a double BC) and tunnel threadles on a barrel are even worse so I experimented with getting a BC in even though that made the ending awkward until I remembered to put her on my left as she exited the barrel and then BC between the next 2 jumps.
I think I could have sent and gone sooner on the wrap back to the tunnel. I did with and without a spin and think an earlier send and go without the spin is probably all she needs.
Min – Live Session – 7/6/22
I ran Min through the sequences right after I got Kaladin up from his nap and popped him back in the house. Then I had to tear everything down for the Fence Post guys on Thursday and they hit an unmarked cable line which just got fixed today so yay for high speed internet again! (and with the fancy new wifi 6 modem and newer cables I now have wifi all the way to the back of the yard)
Min likes those backside slices with the BC (is that a German turn???). I think I can probably get a bit further ahead of her but I’m not sure that I’m getting in her way in the videos though. She took to that wrap/flip away to the tunnel better than I thought she would as I usually handle something like that with a BC like I did in the warm-up.
I think your request may be working on the weather so now we just have to worry about the city fireworks in a park a few miles away.
Kaladin – Games 1 – Jpg 1 – 7/1/22
Way late on the turn cue after the 2nd barrel so we redid that part.
Each dog gets to run 1 USDAA Gamblers run tomorrow before our hike so I’ll look for an opportunity to do more of a send &go on a pinwheel and to leave sooner on a wrap.
Min – Games 1 – Jpg 1 – 7/1/22
It was a pleaant 60deg early this morning so we squeezed this in before driving up north. I was able to fit most of the Jumping course except for jump 1 which would have been on my deck. I had to shorten some distances. The fox Barrel was my 2nd tunnel and I used a standard for #2/12. My first choice for handling the opening would have been to run into a blind on Take off of 2 so we sort of did tha. The barrel was tricky with the timing. I probably could have sent from further away.
Min – Games 1 – Seq 3&4 – 6/29/22
Really short session since it was still in the upper 80s.
Yup – she’s running for the remnants of the Nemo ball which she she likes to try to kill when she catches it.
I often run from the start with her, but I’ll keep experimenting with releasing with a directional/obstacle cue instead of “break”.Sequence 3 –
So I think she actually released on my movement and not “go tunnel” so I”ll need to be careful about that. She had a tighter turn in the pinwheel here.Sequence 4 – first run
Almost lost her behind me when I flicked my eyes away to make sure I wasn’t going to collide with the tree. (I ran Min first so I had that part smoother for Kaladin).take 2 – redid it to iron out the 180 around the tree. Then on a whim I cued a left out of the tunnel to end and the little stinker did it beautifully! She’s determined to prove me wrong after my comments on how she doesn’t like to turn out of tunnels. Maybe I just need to cue way earlier than I think I need to.
We’re going to be up north Fri-Mon for a bit of USDAA and some hiking so this will probably be it until next week. (I might see about setting up half of a the jumpers course, but I think the weather isn’t going to cooperate)
