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Pkg 5 Jumping Popouts 1 & 2 – 8/14/24
This was from Wednesday and split over 2 sessions. I thought staying out on the layer for the backside slice would be harder for him but he got the first time when I stepped in a bit past the tunnel to help. Then he was confused when I tried it as a threadle wrap since my cue was so late. Experimented with different starts and which way I went around jump 6 in the 2nd popout
Serpentines – 8/15/24
This was from Thursday. I used 5ft bars for variety but kept the bars at 4in since I closed the angles more. I have a leash with a small clasp so was able to thread it through my creamcheese toppl to drag it. Instead of starting her in a sit-stay, I tossed cheese so that I could get up the line. I was thinking I would try the serp sequences with the tunnel and the jumps at more of a cloesd angle when I get back home.
Will also circle back to the bang game. I let her get on higher up the first time because I wanted to make sure she didnt’ have big feelings about me lining her up in a more precise location. I did bring her little home-made scratchy cardboard target so we could practice that on the road.
Teeter Bang Game – 8/14/24
Did the first session of this tonight with the board about 2in off the ground. She’s being thoughtful but doesn’t seem worried about the slight movement and bit of sound.
Mountain Climber with small tip – 8/14/24
Added an inch or two of tip. I’ve left the dish cloth on the teeter tip assist bar so that it’s not too loud with metal landing on pvc. Stuck with her at first but she was pretty happy with this.Today Ms Lift was not in a play with toys outside mood whether she was near equipment or not. She also started to say no thanks when I offered her a toy inside on my lunch break, but then changed her mind when I turned away from her and dragged it past her nose.
We’re supposed to get poured on tonight and Thursday and then I’m heading to Canine Sports Zone for ISC as a Canadian Open warmup so I likely won’t be training in the yard again for a few days.
Pkg 5 Drills – 8/11 & 8/12/24
Decided to jump into pkg 5 to work on his threadle wraps near a tunnel. I tweaked the angle on jump 3 for the first few reps. He had a hard time with jump 5 in the layer.
Monday session -8/12/24
I adjusted the angle on jump 5 to help him get the layer and also tried out a backside wrap instead of the threadle wrap.
Serpentines – 8/11/24
Did a refresher on the serps with 1 jump yesterday. She came into my left side nicely, but got sticky on the release coming into my right side so we took a break and came out later in the day and I tossed her treat back to start. After that she released into my right side. Video is a mashup of that 2nd 1 jump serp and then 2 short sessions working on 2 jumps. Angled the 2nd jump after she back jumped it the first time. The 2 jumps with the send and then coming in over the 2nd jump was from this morning
Set Point – 8/12/24
Sometimes the pop rocks explode if I just drag a toy around outside, but this morning Lift decide she wanted to tug on a real fur tug badly enough that she even happily worked for it as the moving target on her set point. I still think she’s pulling off the front a bit, but she does have more momentum going through the grid with the toy.
Mountain Climber- 8/12/24
Cream cheese worked nicely to get her to hang out at the top for a bit. She even turned around to the right (and away from me) on one of the descents. I still need to locate friends with Galican & Max 200 teeters. OK to do some angled entries before I get her on other teeters?Winging It – Blinds and racetrack- 8/9/24
Got cream cheese! She’s a fan. Finally got turns to the right even though it feels like my left arm is so far back. She definitely gives me more grace going to the left as I can point my arm forward to the wing without her pop rocks going off.0:58 – is this what you meant by saying to keep going on?
Set Point
Haven’t done too much in the way of grids with her yet. This was the first time she saw my cobbler together spider thingee and the first time she did an 8in jump. I think I should compress her distance a bit more so she doesn’t look like she is reaching so much with her front end to edit the bounce.I need to re focus on working on her tugging more. I didn’t push it when she was very adolescent and then just as she was showing signs of growing up a bit she went into season. This morning I offered her a tug toy after the set point and she started tugging like a fiend. Even did 2 reps of a tunnel for the tug. This evening’s success was tugging inside upstairs after I had put my shoes on and then again after I put the cream cheese in her toppl and set it near the deck door in a clear indication that we were heading out to train. She had to think about whether she wanted to tug but then she did.
And I’m feeling like I should be doing more to train a RDW. Any suggestions on methods or classes? At this rate I’m going to run out of non frozen ground and daylight before I get very far but she’s not going to be ready to NFC speedstakes for a while so no rush.
Big Lines from Camp Pkg 3 – 8/9/24
Tried an experiment this morning where I left the dogs in the car when I got home from their walk (Friday is trash day and the city has a list of companies you can use so there are multiple garbage/recycling/organice recyling trucks going by all morning. So I often drive the 1/3 mile to the trail head instead of walking down the street). I set up the tripod and left the video running and then brought Lift out to the yard from the garage (not our usual route when we train). She seemed interested in the frisbie at first so I tossed it for the first rep and you can hear her noisy protests about that. So will need to figure something else out for using toys outside. Ran around the tunnel when her line carried her a bit that way and I wasn’t using a good exit line connection but she was happy to drive ahead of me when I switched to the toppl (and I do need to buy some creamcheese since I don’t keep it around)
It was in the low 70s today so I did a 2nd session in the afternoon and tried a loop before sending her straight from the tunnel. Going to the left was easier but I did manage to keep my arm back enough that we got a loop to the right without any jumping/crossing/outbursts. It feels really awkward to keep the hand back and pointed at her when I’m practically on top of the wing.
Pkg 3 Drills & Sequences- 8/9/24
Swapped out to the chuck it soft frisbie which has a rim and does roll…right into the jump or the wrong direction the way I throw rollers! I trimmed out the parts where I was walking with the tripod incase you are susceptible to motion sickness.
I moved the jump after the tunnel out to about 21ft. The threadle wraps felt smoother here.
Pkg 3 Drills – Big Lines & Backside Wraps – 8/8/24
Vet said to keep an eye on the nail to make sure it didnt’ start to split, but thought he would be fine training. Driving ahead at the end of a big course is an area of opportunity for us (how’s that for a euphemism for “we almost missed winning the Open & Invitationals Finals because he barely kept going ahead of me without turning back”). I managed to fit the drill setup in on the diagonal but ran out of lateral space in the back corner to angle the last jump so that a RC would be helpful. I switched to a different soft frisbie that throws better than the fabric frizzers and still had some real doozies of throws, but he was focused forward nicely. I trimmed out my leisurely walks back to the start while tossing his frizzer. I think I should try this with me being further behind after the tunnel to see if he can keep driving ahead.
Winging it – Tight Blinds -8/8/24
After some torrential downpours earlier in the week, the weather has been lovely (60s/70s). I used PB in a topple here which does involve waiting for her to finish licking her chops between reps. She went to the left well (and I even remembered her cue!) and cracked me up on the last rep when she pulled off on the spin and then went back and went aroung the wing after her brain caught up. Had issues going to the right again. I was looking back at her (since I saw her beady eyes as she darted behind me and jumped up), but is my arm just not back far enough when she’s on my left and approaching the wing. I just switched to sending her ahead to get the thrown toppl out of the tunnel and then went back to turning left.
I did the big lines drills from pkg 3 with Kaladin this evening and am planning on letting Lift open up on them (without the circle wraps) tomorrow morning.
She hasn’t been into toys outside much either. Her best tugging lately has been inside and out of the context of training. She did great inside tonight doing easy tricks for the tug.
I just ordered her a martingale slip lead with a clip release from Rush to Tug so of course she has started to consider wearing her harness again! But it will be good to have options since her big feelings tend to shift around to different things.
Zig Zag – 2 jumps – 8/7/24
Took a break from turning this week and worked on foot targeting and some straight line jumping stuff.
Used the 3ft weave poles set at 4in and have it resting in the jump standard because when I put 2 standards in the middle the feet turn into a bigger obstacle for her. She’s stationed on her cot when I am adjusting the jumps.
Also did an adjustable grid with a 6in bar (4in for the bounce jumps) yesterday. Didn’t adjust much because I was more interested in how she handled the idea of it than actually asking her to really adjust her stride. So enough jumping work with that and going to try more of a handling game tomorrow.
Lazy Contacts – 8/7/24
Did some refresher sessions on a foot target over the past few days. She will scratch her front feet across a held up block of wood with the textured grip tape on it (my homemade scratch pad for her nails) but I hadn’t done much with the target flat on the ground. Made a target with cardboard and the gritty grip tape on both sides. Doesn’t always grip the contact plank grit too well.
So she’s getting on the end of the plank, but she’s so close to the end that I can’t always get the target down on the edge.
In other news, I may have discovered something about her tugging. She hasn’t been interested in tugging before a training session even if I try it in another room. Yesterday I got set up to work on the foot target in our bedroom with the treat container and the tripod. I offered her the toy out in the hallway but she wasn’t interested and started circling around and barking. I decided to take a break instead of moving into training after she had been barking at me and walked downstairs. 5 min later I picked up a toy and she looked interested so we tugged a bit downstairs. Then I tugged her up the stairs back into the bedroom and she kept going until I dropped the toy and asked her for a flip (left circle). Then she did some foot targeting for cheese, moved with me down the hallway into my office and tugged, came back to work the foot target for cheese again and the tugged again after we were done. So I need to try it again and see if it was a fluke or if she can’t focus on playing when she sees that the training session is set up and she thinks she needs to train instead. My hope is that it’s not a fluke and I can ease her into the idea that she can tug when she doesn’t think the training thing is all set up and then she gets to train after tugging so it then reinforces the tugging. Hopefully that makes sense.
Winging It – 2 Wing Ladder – 8/4/24
Used PB in a toppl this morning so that it was more obvious when tossed and let her work on it between reps (after she went meh at the snuffle mat). Was happy with how these went when doing the backside wrap to the left.
Went back in the evening to try the other direction and had a good first rep with the FC back to the tunnel and then got some leaping as I was looking back at her when she came out of the tunnel. (she had little treat scatters between the reps here)
She’s 13 months so quite a baby and she had a lot of excitement over the weekend because my best friend from high school was visiting.
It’s supposed to rain most of tomorrow so I was looking at the baby tandem turn on a wing and the lazy contact targeting as good indoor games. I don’t do tandem turns much with Kaladin and I use his threadle wrap cue (in in in) when I do. Not sure if they should have the same cue or not since while the beginning is similar, the tandem turn tends to accelerate back the other direction while the threadle wrap keeps circle to go on. Although maybe the exit line connection just clears that up?
For the Lazy Contact targeting game and a 4-on position, what are you using as Elektra’s foot target? It looks like it stays put well when she paws it. Lift will paw a block of wood with gritty paper stuck to it when I hold it up in front of her, but I’ll need to work on getting her to do that when it is on the ground. I like the idea of the foot target over the nose since I think the pawing helps her shift her weight back more than leaning forward to nose target. Does it matter if her board is on the ground vs raised? For smaller boards I have the Cato plank, an old travel plank that is about 2in off the ground and a board that would be more flush to the ground.
Camp Live Sequence – 8/3/24
Ran it the other direction with Lift. Still a bit late on the spins, but I was much better about maintaining connection and didn’t have her pull off any jumps or have big mad moments of her jumping up at me during the sequence. Even got some backside wraps after I gave her a refresher.
Mountain Climber – 8/1/24
This was from Thursday afternoon. Very confident for most of it except for some hesitation going ahead of me in the middle. Really liked how she zipped right up the board on her first rep.Fusion has a Clip & Go teeter.
Camp Live Sequence – 8/1/24
Tried these with Lift on Thursday morning and left out the beginning jump or two so we could concentrate our brain cells on the wraps after the tunnel. Does great when I remember to keep my shoulder open back to her and has big feelings when she sees my back.
Teeter Back-up – 8/2/24
This was from earlier this morning. Much better success with me crouched down (grass was too wet to sit on). She even offered continuing to back up from 2-o-2-o to 4 on a few times.
(Kaladin was stationed on his cot near the tripod and earned a treat mid session)
Weather is back in the low 90s with high humidity for the weekend but looks better for next week.
Live – Exit Line Connection Other Direction- 8/1/24
Took advantage of the storms cooling things off for a day and flipped the course around for Kaladin this morning. Had to sort out the toy hand on the backside wrap after I forgot the blind and ended up on the outside the first time around. Not noticing a fluency difference on the other side for Kaladin. (Me we won’t talk about)
