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Independent Tunnels – Games 1 – Kaladin – 10/13/21
Did 2 separate sessions with Min in the middle (her video coming along later since it’s late). Kaladin likes his tunnels & his Nemo ball!
This camp has been so much fun and so helpful with both dogs! I can’t believe it’s September already. Min and I will see you in a few weeks at On the Run. (Kaladin is still on the waitlist for the Tweener dog day. It is also the 2nd day at my new job so even if a spot opens up, I might not be able to take it. I haven’t told them yet about how I”m disappearing for both Cynosports and the US Open later this fall!
Min & Kaladin – Games 5 – Seq 3 – 8/28/21
Finally done catching up on my videos and just in time! What fun stuff do you have planned for your online peeps after this? (although I have plenty on my list to “work on later”!)Kaladin walk
Kaladin run
Option 1 (slice right to left on 7&8) worked really well
Option 2 (slice left to right on 8) – Ended up not doing the threadle to the first tunnel. I got a bit too impatient with moving forward and he almost didn’t take the back of 8. However I liked his line into the tunnel and he had a tighter left turn out of it to the last jump. (Maybe because he could stay on the left lead?)
Min walk
Min run
Option 1 (slice right to left on 7&8) – wasn’t ahead enough for the 2nd slice on 8 and almost lost her behind me to the wrong side of the tunnel but hung on and got her back.
Option 2 (slice left to right on 8) – walked this with a BC coming out of 8 but that didn’t happen when we ran. I did get the correct tunnel opening but with me on the outside which felt a bit awkward and could have opened up the other tunnel opening.
Kaladin & Min – Games 4 -Jumping Courses- 8/25/21
And the Forum black hole seems to have eaten this one which I posted on Saturday while I was waiting to see what was up with the weather. Here’s last Wednesday’s session at Chaia’s.Kaladin Jpg 1 walk
Kaladin Jpg 1 – Run at 10in
Thus turned out surprisingly well considering he had a hard time settling when we were doing the pattern game and tricks while Chaia was walking. He did look back at her (sitting about 15ft away) when I was lining him up but then he focused on the course.
Min Jpg 3 Walk
Min Jpg 3 Run
After the first run, I decided to try a threadle wrap on 12 which worked surprisingly well considering it looked like I started cueing it kinda late.
Kaladin & Min – Games 5 – Seq 1 – Handling Options
It was only a tornado watch and not a warning. We got some rain but no hail and only moderate winds.I wonder if one of your responses got lost in the forum black hole. I posted Games 5, Seq 2 right after Seq 1 on Aug 28 but I think you only replied to Seq 1. And it also looks like the Forum ate my Games 4 Jumping course post from Saturday so I’ll re-post that next.
For the options on Seq 1: I timed from takeoff of jump 5 to landing of jump 8
Kaladin with FC and spin at #6
Survey says the FC is the fastest (4:46). Spin was 5:02 and the post turn (5:28). Not surprised that the spin was faster than the post turn. Should I worry about over-using the spin? Or just put it in where I have time to execute it so that it tightens his line?
Min with FC at #6
FC the fastest at 4:23. Spin was 4:62
I’m so happy with how Kaladin did in Duluth on Sunday. He did check out Joan Kurlander briefly in his first run but decided quickly that she was a boring barsetter staring at her phone even if she was right on his line after the jump. I posted the 2nd run on FB where you can hear Christina getting really excited when he ignores Shane twice near the end of his run. We ran SS NFC for our 3rd and last run and that was proof of how fragile his emotional equilibrium is. We were doing our relaxed chill thing off to the side which went well, but on the way to the ring entrance, I didn’t see an Eskie coming from behind until its nose was practically up Kaladin’s butt. (mind you – a leashed Eskie with a clueless handler attached) His marbles fell out and he spun around in a barking fit. I mananged to hustle Kaladin further away and started settling him again with the pattern game, but he wasn’t completely back in the zone when we went into the ring so then he started worrying about the leash runner who was discretely waiting about 10ft behind him. I ended up starting 2 jumps in to get more distance. He started out trotting for the first jump and then settled in and started running really nicely including tugging in various spots. Note to self – if there’s an incident on the way to ring, I need to either scratch him or turn the run into an NFC run that starts in the middle of the ring.
We plan to run FEO in a few runs at the MAC USDAA Trial at the end of September and maybe at a UKI trial in early October that is in a horse barn (a new location to him although he has run on dirt twice for mini seminars).For Seq 1, when I paced out 5-8, it came in as the same distance. I picked the right turn mainly because I was a bit worried about the approach to the last jump since my indented fence gets in the way and wanted to make sure they took 8 turning to the right. I’ll try it withe left turn though to see if it comes in faster. We’re under a tornado watch now and it’s pretty humid so I’m waiting for things to cool down.
Kaladin & Min – Games 5 – Seq 2 – 8/27/21
Slowly catching up on posting videos.
So if the sequence starting jump hadn’t been right up against the raspberry patch, I would have led out on the left side of the jump and not had to cross after the jump and before I released.
Very proud of Kaladin who sat right next to the mulberries on my lead out.Kaladin’s walk
Kaladin’s run
Decided to work a bit on the right turn out of the tunnel. My connection back to him seems to be more effective than the verbal cue.
Min’s walk
Min’s run
She was pretty zippy on this one! Also worked a bit on the right turn out of the tunnel and discovered that connection is really important for her as she charged out straight and over the wrong jump when I tried using the verbal and taking off.
Kaladin & Min – Games 5 – Seq 1 – 8/26/21
Had to crunch the course a bit horizontally and used a 10ft tunnel, but was able to mostly preserve the distances lengthwise. Moved the jumps up to 12in for Young Master Kaladin and was pretty happy with how he didn’t think that was a big deal. We are doing 1 day of NFC (12s) in Duluth on Sunday.Kaladin’s walk
Walked a FC 4-5 but ended up running it with a blind
Kaladin’s run
Got it on the first try. Then we played a bit and I thought I’d experiment with a threadle slice on 3 but decided it really didn’t help to get me further up the line so wasn’t worth the effort.
Min’s walk
Walked the blind 4-5 and then ended up throwing in a spin when I ran it.
Min’s run
I am experimenting with her startline routine. We do our engagement game tricks while waiting outside the ring and then I have her jump into my arms for her last treat and carry her in and take her harness off before I put her down. (I feel safer having her in my arms just incase the previous dog isn’t really heading out and she seems to like being held). I’m adding a spin after I put her down to see if that helps her come off the line faster when I lead out.
Min & Kaladin – Games 5 – Skills – 8/25/21
In my head I was thinking about setting this up for the other side (the harder threadle wrap to the left) and then I got done and realized I had done it to the right again. Whoops!Min
She surprised me with a decent understanding of the threadle slice and more motion from me. Yay! Threadle Wraps are still confusing at least in this context. We actually did one successfully on a games 4 Jumping course at Chaia’s last night
Kaladin
Thought I was emphasizing the backside slice more the first time but apparently not enough. He seems to get the threadle slices when I cue early enough (He does lock onto the front of the jump as he’s coming out of the wing wrap).
Kaladin – Games 4 – Seq 2 – 8/6/21
More catch up. He has been doing much better in the backyard but I opted for a running start since this one started in the middle of mulberry central.
One of his new favorite toys is an old soft frisbie that is half falling apart and can barely be thrown but makes for a great tug toy.Walk
First run & done!
Miss Min is all about the cookies. Lucky for her I remembered to bring her a meatball for our jaunt to Austin and she certainly earned it! This time I pushed for more, but stayed connected and we had no bars down. We do need to work more on turns out of puppy cannons when off course jumps are on her line, but we smoked the runs that really counted. (Snooker to get to the finals and then the SS finals for the bye.
Min – Games 4 – Sequence 3 – 8/6/21
The Camp Forum black hole strikes again. It also ate my post an hour ago.1) I got the job! (Actually a new contract through the same consulting company that conveniently starts about 2 weeks after the Health Partners one ends)
2) Austin is the only place in TX I would even consider going now. Folks are masked inside ar the trial and the club is refunding entries to anyone who is un vaccinated, sick or thinks they’ve been exposed. They also have the ring set up so that you exit out the back door to agenced field (Complete with table to leave your treats) and can catch your breath while walking around the building before masking up to go back inside.Doing some video catchup for things I recorded before the West Cup!
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Run
Min & Kaladin – Skills 5 – 8/19/21
Kaladin
It was muggy even at 7:30am this morning but the Floof Munster was actually happy to tug hard on his toy and get out of a trot so yay! Needed a refresher on his lala (backside slice) as I tried too l far laterally for his comfort at first. We haven’t done much threadle slice work this summer and usually not from such an angle so I started that one closer to the wing.
Min
She wasn’t convinced about the threadle wrap but she did the threadle slice better than I had expected (since we often double blind instead)
So I think I’m mostly recovered from our quick CA Vacay on either side of the West Cup and then having 3- 2nd round interviews for a new job the day after I got back. In a moment of madness I decided I had a bunch of miles so I was going to mask up and fly to Austin tomorrow for the TX Classic. (And I checked the county Austin is in has about the same level of covid cases that the Twin cities does… unlike the rest of TX)
Min – Games 3 – Std 2 – 8/8/21
Well this one was a hot mess and it was too muggy for us to want to try it again later.
I kept going too deep to the tunnel and finally got an ugly weave entry by running the other side. Then I got lost and left out the middle part which she did nicely later. Experimented with the last line but it was hard to make it smoother.Kaladin – Games 3 – Jpg 3 – 8/8/21
It wasn’t as hot as it’s been but it was so muggy that we were all dying after 1 run. Did his instant focus and some of the pattern game around the course while Chaia was walking. Then did just the 6 poles to make sure he remembered how to do them outside of my yard. First try on the course he ran over to Chaia who was standing about 10ft back from the #2tunnel. Got him back, did more tricks and tried again. Ran over to her but came back and we kept going. Really happy that he stayed on task at the end when he had to go by her again.Min & Kaladin – Skills 4 – Running Past- 8/9/21
Min did really well 2 days ago with the warm up skills so here she is doing the more advanced ones. The first threadle wrap ran afoul of me having to duck to avoid the tree and knocking some rain off the leave anyway which landed on Min’s head and got into her ear. We had to stop to help her shake/rug it out.
Kal – cue one “get out” tunnel and he decides it’s super fun and keeps doing it when I’m trying to wrap the wing. Maybe I should have used his tunnel threadle instead. The last rep was after a break (with tricks) while 2 pedestrians a stroller and a mini schnauzer went by. I was happy with how he re-engaged after it.
