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Jpg Seq 2 – ending -6/21/24
Ask and you shall receive. Actually I took advantage of it not pouring and storming this morning. While the threadle wrap has gotten a lot better, we don’t tandem turn much . 2nd try did feel a bit better than waiting for the circle wrap yesterday. I thought he drove on a tighter line even though he does tend to slow down a bit on threadle wraps.
Week 1 Jumping – 6/20/24
I saw you had pop-outs for smaller spaces but I wanted to see how he did on the layering and other bits so I compressed the course a bit, used 6 weave poles, and left out jump 13 (in seq 1) to accomodate my oak tree.
Sequence 1
Got it done on the first try. Decided I wanted to try the 2nd course too instead of re-doing parts of the first. Left the course set-up, but we’re supposed to have storms all day Friday and I”m trialing this weekend and then Dean has to mow (if it stops raining) so this might be it for a bit.Should have set him on more of a slice for the first jump (ran this before work and before I read your feedback from the short sequences). Substituted his frizzer reward for jump 13 (he approved)
Sequence 2
I was impressed he got the layering from 6-8 since 9the compressed distances made it a bit tricky to still show motion going into the layer. Had issues with 10-11 which probably would have been worse if jump 1/12 had been there. I thought about handling 11 from the back of the tunnel but that didn’t put me any place good for 12 if it was there. I felt like I was standing still and waiting too long for the circle backside at 18 but wasn’t sure if running into a BC and doing a threadle wrap there would have still gotten me the jump or the off course tunnel.
I like the idea of strategizing how to get him the fastest lines. I still need to post his Biathlon and SS videos from the Cup (portioning out some of their raw food for when I”m gone took priority) I entered the Canadian Open and their Speedstakes is times plus faults so we’re going to have to really hustle to come out ahead of some blazing fast dog that drops a bar.
Thanks! I was really happy with how he ran at the Cup. Getting better at sending ahead on those sharper angle “flip away” into the poles” entries. 2 for 2 on awesome dogwalks and 2 for 2 on decent a-frames. Held all start lines (not something I’d asked him to do in a bigger event for a little while). Kept me honest by running by the 3rd to last jump in Masters Jumping when I didnt’ maintain connection in my mad dash down the line. (LOL) Only 16in dog to run double clean in Biathlon. Double clean in SS and really tight lines, but those courses weren’t quite technical enough for us to podium. We’ve got a combo UKI/AKC ISC this weekend and then it’s a trip to Scotland for 10 days for our 25th anniversary. So I blew through the hot topics today (it was pouring the last 2 days) and have a slightly modified Jumping course ready for tomorrow (assuming it doesn’t pour all day).
Hot Topics – Sequences – 6/19/24
I trimmed out some of the playing between reps, but this was the sum total of what we did today. He wans’t keen on looking at the jump in sequence 4 where I was a bit behind him. (probably because I usually take 1 step forward and then fade back on these kinds of starts)
Seq 1&2
Seq 3
Took a break to train Lift and do a few other things. Then Seq 4-6
Smiley Face – 5/8/24
I think it’s more likely pressure than something sore. I’m not finding anything on her or seeing any change in her gait. If anything she is boing-ing around more lately. I did see a slight change in her gait about a month ago where her right hind didnt’ extend behind her quite as much and that did turn out to be something that needed an adjustment but then she felt great at her massage after that. She has a massage appointment in about a week. (She tags along with Kaladin to get a short puppy massage)
She has been more barky and leapy around the house and more distracted when working outside (granted the bunny poop is a big distraction). She is also 10.5 months and hasn’t gone into season yet so maybe the hormones are ramping up more in preparation for that? Min had her first heat at 9months and Lift is about her size. I think Tari was about 1year and she was 14-15lbs compared to Lift’s 10.4lbs so I feel like Lift is probably pretty close.
Anyways we’e been playing with toys in the house and doing some tricks. (her retrieve when inside is actually improving). Also did a RDW session in th back yard with the PT behind a wing and she didn’t put her cape on so that seemed to help.
I decided to try the smiley faces with more race tracks than wraps this afternoon. I did think about whether I should take her out on leash/harness incase that was contributing but I dind’t want her to start hunting for bunny poop while I was turning on the video so decided to. Had some mixed results with the smiley faces. Sometimes she likes the race track and other time she boings up at me partway through and I’m not seeing a pattern for why this happens. There are lots of things I wanted to circle back to in MaxPup 2 but maybe I should just give her a break for a week or two and only do really easy things like toss a treat and have her chase me for a toy/treat. I’m show manager-ing UKI this weekend at Animal Inn so she’s going to tag along to have fun playing with me in the big lower field when I have breaks.
Other question – I think I successfully submitted for the last 3 live classes for Kaladin in summer camp, but now I’m not seeing a confirmation email or a charge so just want to make sure I actually remembered to hit submit on that form.
Uh…remember how you were just commenting on Lift’s stellar stays in the lateral leadout? Now I seem to have broken her release. Went out this morning to do the accordian grid and couldn’t get her to release from the sit. Went back inside and played some moving target and leadout games with no problems. Tried again at lunch when she was more into the toy and still had issues.
Starfish – 5/5/24
Poor little Lifty has a handler that was super late on the tandem turn cues today until the last one. Actually I’m not sure my timing was much better on the last one so maybe she just took pity on her hooman. However using go instead of directionals for the racetrack parts really seemed to help her out – she just flew on those parts and no pop rock explosions ensued. Even got a tunnel threadle.
I’ve been having her get her harness on before going to train and I dragged the cato board outside so that we can brush up our station skills before and after games sessions.
Zig Zag – 5/2/24
This was from Thursday. Those are 4ft bars that are eventually at 4in, I think I’m going to need to go down to weave poles to get her to actually bounce.
Lateral Leadout – 5/3/24
This was from Friday morning in 2 sessions (Kaladin got to play with jump-weave discriminations between Lift’s sessions) I think this is what you were describing with the 5& 4o clock positions, but I’m having a hard time thinking of a course where I would want to set her at that angle if the course was going back towards me later (vs having her on the other slice position so that it’s an easier jumping effort)
Today we did a nice long walk and then the dogs helped supervise me pulling some nasty spiny things out of the yard. (compliments of the neighbors with the very unkempt lawn that borders our front yard. Thankfully they put a privacy fence up late last summer so that helped stop the spiny thing migration)
Wind in Hair & Turns – 5/1/24
Came back to this one to do the other direction and test how she handles a wrap to the inside following a RC out of the tunnel. Brilliantly with the left wrap. Not quite sure what I was doing to turn her off the jump early in the next RC unless I wasn’t keeping my shoulders pointed to the bar enough for longer as I pushed on her line?
Doubled up on sessions today since it’s supposed to pour all day tomorrow and more over the weekend. We’re going to lose Lift in some of the grass soon but it hasn’t dried out enough to mow.
Backside Challenges – 5/1/24
So this was odd. Starts out brilliantly with me moving a bit faster. Then starts cutting behind me. Switched to doing the exits and she was looking good there too. Ended up taking a short break and then trying the other side where she didn’t cut behind me.I signed Miss Nifty Lifty up for MaxPup 3. Are there going to be live sessions for it? (not that I really need more things on my calendar since I want to get 2 of the Camp live sessions for Kaladin!)
So a quick release added to where the chest strap connects to the saddle part of the harness? Do you go over his head when putting it on but use the quick release just when taking it off?Turnaways – 4/30/24
I thought it would be good to revisit the tandem turns on the wings since she had some trouble with them on the starfish. Watching the video I think I’m late cueing most of them but she’s still getting them and is pretty zippy about them. Had about a minute of her being completely distracted sniffing at something on the ground in the middle – no idea what it was.
Accordian Grid
3ft 9in bounce- 5ft in 2nd & 4th reps & 7ft for 3rd rep. She coughed up a piece of cheese on the 3rd rep right before she got to the toy and then she decided she was done with the toy. She also didn’t think much of me adjusting the jump distances and even did a lap under the deck during one of them. I feel like the 1 stride distance can spread out a bit more. She looks like she was shortening her stride to fit it in.
Harness – 4/29/24
I also loosened the front strap a bit so that the opening is larger and less likely to squash her ears or displace her ruff. I think either the sideways or the upside down presentation seem tl be easier for her.Lateral Leadout – 4/28/24
Had a slight break when going from the wing to the 2nd jump (Decided I might as well add in the 2nd jump when Lift took off for the back of the yard to pee -guess she wanted to make sure she wasn’t going in the ring. LOL. For these you should be looking at her take off spot and not the landing, right?So far no signs that adding the harness as a pre -requisite to heading outside to train (or to play with Kaladin) is an issue. I’m also experimenting some with how I present the harness to her. I’ve always held the harness from the end of the saddle bar so the loop is on the bottom, but I think that’s part of why I’m seeing her duck her head and put her ears back. I tried flipping the loop to the side of doing it 180 with the loop on top and she seemed to like that better. I’ll have to get video of it and see if I’m imagining things or not.
Backside Challenges – 4/28/24
Did the other direction from the live class. Didn’t try to move across the bar since she had a bit of trouble finding the back in the Live class.Diamond – 4/27/24
Successful experiment with a jump instead of a wing on the spot opposite the tunnel since the racetracks with wings have often involved her jumping up. Her line doesn’t always make sense for me to use right/left and then I rever to saying yes/yay and she’s like, what? as she boings. Was also happy with how she was pretty happy doing the wing wraps.
Wind in Hair & Turns -4/27/24
Got a RC to the left on the first try so decided to try a right wrap. Not quite sure how she read that as a wrap left the first time unless she was just patterned to go left or straight?
Starfish – 4/25/24
Started out with the toy but then ended up switching to food, but she did play again with the toy after. The tandem turns reqiure a lot of thought.
She was great about pushing her head through her harness when she was younger and then hit adolescence and decided it was evil. She’s gotten pretty good about pushing her collar into my hand again but I decided it was time to start working more on the harness again. She can push her head through it at meal times but has to think about it before her morning walk. I decided to try having it be a condition to go out to the backyard to play or train and see if that helps. I am deliberately not putting it on her at the end of a session.
RC Concept Transfer – 4/23/24
OK – this is 2 short sessions, one before breakfast and one at lunch and in both of them she worked for a toy! She was tugging like a fiend into the back yard so I decided to try it this morning. Picked the RC game since it lets her open up more. I’m using my “larger” jump bump which is a 4in diameter (2in tall) one. And clearly she if following my pushing her line and not the verbal on the first RC to the left when I goofed and used Left instead of Say/Sigh. I did notice that she had a faster wrap around the wing the next time after I tossed the toy back to the wing. Had some opinions about ending the first session.Turnaways – 4/22/24
Started with wings about 12ft apart and went to 15ft. I moved into some toy games after the tandem turns and was curious to see if she got less sticky wrapping a wing for a toy. Or maybe it’s just that she still thinks wing wrapping is stoopid even when the wrap gets rewarded on its own too.. I also dont’ do tandem turns very often. Do they end up having the same or a different verbal than a threadle wrap?
