[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

A few reps from yesterday and today. Yesterday I was able to leave the toy on the ground. This morning it made her head explode. The 3 from yesterday I had the jumps pretty much in the normal position. Today I did the little sequence and I had to dial it way back and angle the jumps. By the last rep, I had straightened them a tiny bit.

I know I need to work through the toy on the ground (she used to be able to ignore it, but lately she has been scoping for it – like tunnel to the toy with no attempt at any of the in between). Which is also making jump grids difficult.

At her class last night, I was the only one there, so we did a little serp work in a different place and in a short sequence and she was amazing – showed her a little angle for a couple of reps, then she was fine with the jumps straight.

We also did a little of the tunnel exit game last night – go from tunnel to another tunnel straight ahead and then a couple with turns out of the tunnel. If I had know I’d be the only one there, I would have brought my tripod!

I’m going to let the serps sit for a bit now and work on the tunnel game.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

I did the next couple of things in the homework (not all in one session!).

A couple of sends to the 2 jumps and then the first sequence on both sides. I started with the jumps pretty angled and after a couple of correct reps straightened them a bit.

Thanks for telling me about that toy – she will happily chase the HR, so I used that instead.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Good morning!

It’s gorgeous out so I did a quick serpentine exercise before leaving for our herding lesson 🙂

I have actually been working on the serps recently (and in a lesson with Nancy) since they have been a hard skill for her. We are making progress – I am now able to have the second jump in the “normal” position.

Here are the first 2 steps in the homework. Sorry she gets cut off on the start of some of them.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

We went back out to try to clean some of this up.

Just one rep of “go” to toy on the ground. It’s muggy out – rain is on the way which the sad brown grass desperately needs. Of course it has to be Saturday afternoon after like a month with no rain…

I could see on the previous video (after you pointed it out) that my position on the RC and backside were the same, so I tried to focus on that and I think we did better.

Also did a few FC in between the RC and backside to break those up.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Did our first reps of Straight line 4 ways. In her class and grids with height, she is now jumping 16 quite confidently. I did the exercises at 12″.

I started the “go” with the tunnel since I though she’d be ok. Looks like I need to throw the toy sooner (rep 2 head turn).

Then we worked through the other 3 variations.

FC – she had some issues with the bars – I left them for you to see since I’m not sure what I was doing differently that caused the bar to drop.

RC – that went surprisingly well! So I just did the couple of reps on the video and moved on since I’m trying to work while it’s still cool.

Backside. Had quite a bit of trouble. I led out so I could walk. I see in the reps where she got the backside, I’m really “over-helping”. She seems to know the word in a vacuum but once there’s motion, it’s too much to process(?)

“You might even consider some NFC Speedstakes in the late summer or fall? Let’s take a road trip so our baby dogs can play with no one watching hahaha!”

Haha is right! It would have to be in super secret, like my yard!! Maybe a year from now…

Joan

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by agilitywawa. Reason: forgot video

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Here we are with the tunnel.

Now that I have the tunnel out, hoping to work on the straight line games. And I have a weekend with almost no plans (so exciting) to get some homework done.

She did so well at her class last night! She’s really understanding her lefts and rights, even coming out of tunnels. And we got some really good sends to jumps too.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Here’s step 2 – toy in my hand. She has a much easier time on my right, wrapping left. There I felt like she was not looking for the toy. On my left she was not as strong/independent (yet!). Short early AM session -we’re having 2 stupid hot days, then maybe I can drag some equipment out.

I was able to add more motion than yesterday.

Thnaks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Last week was nuts – work and I was trial secretary on the weekend, so not so much got done. Trying to pick up where I left off with the backside wrap commitment – I think I did a better job getting out of her way. And she was much tighter around the wing. I don’t know if I was really testing the commitment as much though, but this skill is hard for her…

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy!

I did not get back to that set up to try again- storming yesterday and then got really hot after the rain. And now all the equipment is off the grass for some kind of treatment…

I could start the backside circle wrap commitment game though. This is hard for her (she had trouble at
the seminar when you were here too). Just the first steps with me walking and throwing the toy behind me. That went pretty well, but I’m not trying to leave too soon (yet).

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

I was finally able to watch a live class in real time! And we went out and tried the first 2 games during class. Then I had to get the tunnel moved for mowing 🙂

Here’s Winging it with FC and Spin. She gives me pretty good commitment to the wing.

Then we tried the beginning steps of game 2 with the tight blind crosses and adding in the FC to tunnel. Trying to keep my wings down. LOL

Fun games! Lots to do with this configuration.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi!

Glad you said this because I had no idea how I was going to pull that off!: No need to do the FC on this one, it won’t make sense with her speed 🙂 It would only be a good exercise in why the BC is a much better choice LOL!!!

I revisited the BC to teh tunnel. It felt a bit better, but then I saw the video and I was still kind of running the arc, not getting out of there. But, I was farther ahead, just need to adjust my line. It was much easier for us on the first side – not sure if it’s because I’m right handed or not.

Then I tried the Rear Cross set up and it was hard for me. I tried breaking it down some and that helped.

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Back from our little break.

I’ll revisit those wraps. I wanted to try some of the other exercises. It was gross and hot, so we kept it short.

Here’s the start of the Fluffy BC (I will do the FC separately):

While in blind cross mode, I wanted to try the next game with the send and BC to tunnel. Dellin sends out fine, my timing seemed a bit late when looking at the video. Maybe I went too deep in there(?) or I could actually run faster. LOL. You see this configuration (or variations) all the time, so it’s great that she will have the exposure to it so early on.

Looking forward to getting back to it!

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Thanks for the extra videos!

My timing must have been really bad – the “jump” was instead of a go, but I probably did not need to say much at that jump – it was right in front of her. I meant the left/right was where she was going after after that jump.

I think maybe I need to spread my set up out more. I felt like everything was way too close and I had no time to get the words out.

Dellin has several markers for toys – and when I train agility I seem to forget to use ANY of them ALL the time. I can also try leaving it out on the ground.

I tried to do some wraps this morning and it was a mixed bag. Again, the spacing seemed too small. I know what this fells like when I run Mari – the decel and the turn, but I felt like I was thinking too hard and it was really messing things up. I usually cue the wraps with Mari with my back to the jump – it’s more comfortable for me (what I’m used to). Trying to do the front cross leaves me facing the wrong way too long since I’m not turning quickly enough and leaving (I’m facing the tunnel too long).

I had to back up and work on 1 and 2 jumps. We did manage a couple of reps with more, but overall not the best session.

We are camping now for a few days, so I will rebuild the set up when I get home again and maybe give myself a little more space. I’m not exactly sure how big it was, but once I was trying to cue a wrap, there was not enough room for me to feel comfortable.

And I still was not using any toy marker and bars were falling all over the place. We need to regroup – she used to be able to turn tight. And I need to stop overthinking it!

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Thanks for the clarification. Big emotional response was like an understatement – she had a meltdown which was hard to see. I understand how to proceed. Will get some video just to make sure I’m on the right track. I don’t know that she will try very hard to find the cookie in the grass. The only thing she likes to look for in the grass is rabbit poo and I draw the line on using that as a treat. Actually, if I handed it to her or suggested that she eat it, she’d probably never eat it again. LOL

Watched the first part of Saturday’s class and worked on the lazy game – send to the jump and lazy game to tunnel, the added some movement. Lots of bars coming down in conjunction with throwing the toy, so looking for ideas to clean that up.

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

It was like giving her a cookie and then cuing the frisbee toss. Just giving her the idea like teaching them a clicker. I was literally asking for nothing!

Thanks,
Joan

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