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For some reason my brain understands how left and right can work from both sides of you, but I’m having trouble with my wrap verbals doing the same thing in my brain. Immediately my brain went to that I would need different words. I think working this exercise I understand now.
The first session which I did not video ended pretty fast lol!!! We only did a few attempts and she completely lost her mind!! I was holding her collar and she was very sure that it meant backside or front wrap and she got VERY angry that it did not lol! I quit pretty fast based on her reaction. There was going to be no changing her mind that time lol!!! I went back and rewatched the video. I decided to use the cookie lure going forward at first to help her not immediately launch in to a backside or a front wrap. It also helped fend off the resulting attack on me if her guess was wrong lol!!!
Hopefully, I am adding the verbal a hair sooner than I am adding the movement. This was a hard exercise for us to start, as she was very confident of what I wanted her to do, which was not it at all in this case. I’m thinking the lightbulb went off during the session and it became much easier for her!!!
One other cool thing I wanted to add. I was at a trial yesterday with Potter and walking the courses I recognized all the places I could use left/right and how HELPFUL that would have been if I had that verbal with him!!! We also had a spot in premier with a threadle wrap. Again a skill almost 10 year old Potter does not have, but little sissy will!!! Exciting!! We did get the sequence anyway with a series of front cross wraps which I would never had made with speedy Promise!
Love all that advice!! It’s so cool to see all this coming together for her! I’m
blown away with what she knows as a baby dog!I just watched the independent verbal wraps and I think my head may have exploded 😂😂😂🤯! Wait you can wrap a rear?! With the same word?!?! Haha, I was still in switch land before this class. I’m having trouble trying to imagine this on courses. What do you suggest on starting Promise on this one right now yay or nay???
This one was super hard for both of us!!! Steam came out of both of ears! We started out great with her first GOs and then I did too many reps of the serpentine and got sucked into the vortex! I ended up switching sides to help get out of the loop. I felt like she had a harder time with the left than the right. No surprise lol! I think things really started clicking towards the end of the session!!! I struggled with my words too. I had so much to spit out at the end I ended up omitting the second directional verbal of the serpentine frequently or my reward marker sometimes. I also had no trouble with spitting out the taboo “YES”, which left me little time for the correct words lol!!! I confused the left and right a time or two also.
I have a few questions on this game…
One is about my reward placement on her line. I felt like I was rewarding on the incorrect line sometimes. I did find when I was actually successful with the second directional I was more likely to reward on the correct line. Hopefully I was anyway lol!
How important is the second directional to say at the beginning? is this something i should really concentrate on? I’m probably going to need a session of that without any dog lol!!!
I had to really add my motion(Handling) with this game to get out of the vortex. Was this ok to do or does it just ruin the purpose of this game? Instead should I have gone back to the previous serpentine exercise and attempt this one when that one is solid with me running?
I do think things really started to click for her at the end of this game. Hopefully for me also lol! I may need more percolating time than her on this one lol!!!
Yes, poor breeze got cookies which made him stand guard more and got him taken away lol!!!
I was super happy with her efforts her! I’m getting glimpses at how amazing she is going to be and its super exciting!!! I felt like all her turn were stronger also and I did not have the refusal issues. I think having time to let the morning wrap session percolate helped plus I do think changing things up with her helps immensely also. She really has shown that she like to anticipate! This session it seems like it all clicked for her!! It was a super fun session!!!
I did question my set up lol!!!
She did have more refusals to left turn rep and no there was nothing out past that wing. Though I will say that she tends to have more refusals with the left turn reps in general with any exercise! She has shown me time and time again she is much better with concepts on the right than the left. When training her weaves this became very apparent! She caught on much faster on the right than the left but it all equaled out. She was steps ahead on the right than on the left side. A good lesson for me with the wraps also.
I need to remember that all sides aren’t always equal!!!Afternoon session with wraps and soft turns!!! Gosh this requires a lot of brain power! What a fun game!!!
Forgot to add- poor breeze had to take him away! Normally I don’t have my other dogs out for good reasons 😂😂😂.
I skipped ahead to the fast lines and will go back to the circle wrap and backsides a little later😊. Feeling a little pressure to get all the things done after my vacation lol!
Fast lines wraps- This was very interesting to go back and watch! I started off good and then I got louder and started to handle. In the moment of training, I thought I was getting the refusal from her arousal and that she wised up that I would be going the other direction. When I watched the video afterwards, I saw that my verbals became much louder than what I started with and that I was really adding handling in. I feel like the best rep was when I just ran and did not handle at all!
Also apologies ahead of time! I haven’t gotten to watch the whole zoom call yet that I missed, but I did hear you say do not say “yes”! Apparently the memo in my brain was not received😂! I did another ohh also! Somebody put a shock collar on me😂😂. Then there was the instance I totally reversed my directionals😂😳, which may have been the best rep despite that 🤦♀️😂. You are right, humans are feral!!!
Can’t wait to hear what you think!!!Oh yes Maroon 5!!! The drummer is from Louisiana. I think they have played at Endymion twice. It’s open to the public with presale tickets😉. Seminar than Endymion ball next year?!?!
I am trying sooo hard not to say anything, ugh it just comes out! She is so sensitive to it! I might need duck tape, but then I couldn’t get my verbals out😂.
I may need a video for the rear cross arm cue! Is it in max pup??? I kinda do one now with a shoulder drop on one side and a sweeping motion with pickup arm.
I’m sure your reward placement advice will help clean it all up!
We are back! I had a great time in Florida! I had enough roller coaster rides to last for my entire life 😂. Mardi Gras was great and Maroon 5 was awesome at the ball😊!! I missed the zoom call, my plane took off earlier than I thought lol! I’m happy to be back and back to training!
Backside slices!!! I started with the jump as we had had previous experience with these in max pup I believe and course trends! I feel like I was really late throwing the reward, especially in the beginning. I do feel like I got better as it went on. The left was not as solid as the right was. I feel like she was anticipating a little when I started to test the verbals. Also, I had not tried out the left and right much with the rears yet. I did here and we will need some work on those. Overall, I thought she was great! I was also really impressed with her ability to recover after mistakes. She has come a long way😊😊😊!!! Yesterday was her gotcha day! Love my wild girlie! I made a short video of the year. So much max pup and Agility U in there😊😊! I’ve learned so much from you and Promise this year 😊.
https://youtu.be/3ezFkhjIMcE. Backside slices
Promise’s first year video
Come on down!!! The band needs more members! I know the band director will take more instruments 😂! Zoom from universal would be so fun! My family is huge into Harry Potter(potter, my dog lol)! I can’t wait to ride all the magical things!!!
Thank you so much Tracy! I’m so pleased with her on all these exercises! She’s going to be sooo amazing. Thank you for giving me the tools I need to get her there😊.
I will be doing Mardi Gras tomorrow and then going to universal next week with the band! So we will be on a training break for a week.
I’m still going to try to make some of the zoom call next week. I will be boarding my plane around that time so we will see😂.Promise gave me a gift today! 12 straight weaves!! Whoot whoot!
Training this dog to stay. Hardest thing ever! Weaves has to be the easiest time I’ve had with her. I used your weave class! Brilliant!!The good dog trainer showed up today! Unfortunately the bad videographer also did😂😂😂! I hate that!! Promise did really awesome with these. You’ll have to take my word on the first ones that I was adding motion slowly!
I clued in later on that I probably wasnt in view 😂. We stopped because she had enough reps and I was out cookies! A good way to force me to stop😂😊 https://youtu.be/UgPM0B6IEg4
I’m glad I finally got it right😊. She wanted to run off some energy sooo😂😂. We just did this real quick.
Here are the attempts at 8. I’m not sure I set the wing up for the left right correctly 😬. It looks like I’m to far away from the starting wing.If you want the 1000 and one ways to screw up this exercise I probably have live footage!!! Once I got everything straight success!!! Luckily I started with food, and rewarded inappropriately with my incorrect setup so no harm😂😂. Here is footage with what I believe to be the correct position of the wing jump and the correct verbals 😂😂😂. We will see lol!!!
Oh and her threadles are super nice 😂🤦♀️! It helps on this exercise when you have the wing jump in front and not behind🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️.
