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Luckily the crazy weather wasn’t all that crazy. We did get over 5 inches of rain in 24 hours, but no wind, so all was well. It was weird, though. I mean, we seriously don’t get rain in SoCal in the summer. Maybe sprinkles, but not rain. Oh and then the earthquake alert on my phone really startled me, going off right during the worst of the storm. But never felt the quake. Whew! And the weather has been unusually delightful ever since.
How about that, I did end up better on the blind on the left that the right! Must have been all the practice. It just goes to show, I need to work more with dog on left.
She’s a funny girl, I went back and looked, and she did have a “what? We’re stopping?” Look on her face.
So I’ve lost track, are we at or over the time limit on videos?
Thanks!
Cindy
Hi Tracy,
This was interesting….I started working on the sequence, things were going well, and I thought, I’ve got this, I should be able to get this video done quickly. Then on day 2, thought I would finish up, and I realized that I was supposed to do it the other direction, too. Fine, I’ll just do the other side, handling on my left, and I’ll be done. That’s when everything fell apart. I assume since I’m a little slower handling on my left, it just didn’t work. So it took me a few more days. 🙂 But here it is!
Cindy
Thought that “go” probably wasn’t right, it just came out of my mouth. I guess Georgie knew that, too!
I need to work on that feet running with body facing the other direction thing, not my strong point.
This feedback is invaluable, thanks. I’ll come back to this, and maybe I’d better start working on rears next.
I just ordered a teeter teach-it, and am going to borrow a teeter. Is that the method you use on the terrific teeter course? I have an idea of how it works, of course, from your videos, just want to make sure I don’t mess this up.
Thanks!
Cindy
Cindy
Ok, managed to do this in under 4 minutes. Next time, under 3.
We worked through the tunnel serp exercise, I did the 3 jumps offset, and here we go. I’ve been having trouble with the third jump when she’s on my left, I looked at the video, and if I wanted her to bypass it, I couldn’t have done a better job. 🙂 I tend to look forward at the third jump.
Onward!
Cindy
OMG that makes me feel to much better, I’m going to go give my Terv girl a pat, she LIKED doing serps, it was one of our favorite things, I don’t even remember spending a lot of time training it. Ok, going to give Georgie a little break from serps for a day or two, work on some other stuff, and go back to it and try not to obsess. I need to be careful about that “just one more time” thing, I sometimes have a hard time stopping, and since Georgie never looks like she wants to stop, I can see it would be easy to overdo.
I’ll let you know how the pattern games with recorded audio goes.
Thanks so much!
Cindy
I see part of the problem with the serps, I watched the video again, and see that I went straight to 3 jumps instead of doing the exercises with the tunnel. Worked on that today, it went well with some bobbles when I tried to put the two jumps after the tunnel completely straight, so I’ll work on that a bit more…
Cindy
Hi Tracy –
Thanks for the feedback on the rears. Your comments are so helpful, I see the feet issue now, and wondered what was happening. No excuses, but I think I would do better on the rears if I had more space, I might set this up again and try to create a better line to the tunnel, it felt very awkward.
However, last night I did move on to serpentines. I used to like serps, I thought I was good at them, in retrospect, it was obviously my Terv girl who was good at serps, it appears I’m hopeless. I’m going to review the video again, then try again this evening. Georgie is so fast, I can’t get ahead, and I think I lose connection on the third jump. ARGH. I tried directionals, but getting the correct directional out at the right time was harder than I thought. Last night I meant to say left after the first jump, instead said right, and she was perfect, so apparently the timing of my “right” cue was correct for the third jump, when I thought I was giving it for the second jump. LOL. For good or for bad, I’ll post video soon. I just need to bleep out the 4 letter words. Don’t worry, I say them in a happy voice. And I think you’re right, she has been vocalizing less! Until I started working serpentines. LOL.
So, concerning pattern games, I have an idea. It seems it would be nice if her brain didn’t explode every time a dog goes in the tunnel at the seminar, the owner of the facility is sensitive to dogs barking. Definitely should crate her in the car, at that facility the cars are not far away, so that works. But I was thinking… Georgie also goes out of her mind when I play the videos of our training or your videos, without muting, every time anyone says tunnel tunnel. So I was thinking of working on the pattern games while running the video un-muted. Might not translate to a different environment, but I’m thinking it couldn’t hurt to try???
Cindy
Hi Tracy –
Ok, wings and tunnels! I don’t think this is in the right order, but hopefully I got all the exercises. Rear crosses tricky, of course. I did try to do the exercises on both sides, but you may not be able to tell in the video. I just kept moving the wings around to try to make room.
I haven’t done as much practice as I would have liked, hot, hot, hot, but it cooled down a bit the last couple of days, so I squeezed in as much as I could before it heats up again this weekend.
Thanks for the tip about the pattern games. It’s amazing how something so simple can be so effective. I’m practicing them sometimes when I’m out walking Georgie, she tends to want to meet every dog and person we see, but as soon as she knows we’re playing, she’s totally into it. Looking forward to trying it with dogs going into tunnels.
I still don’t have a class to go to, BUT, I got into a Dudley Shumate one day seminar for young dogs at the end of September, so that may help compensate for the lack of in-person class. Still working on that, I think I may be able to get in with Estelle after it cools off, she can’t do many privates right now because of the heat, and her travels.
Happy Friday!
Cindy
I’ll go back and check on the patterns game, sounds like I need that. I was a little worried when we got there and the previous class was running and every time somebody’s dog hit the tunnel she went nuts, would like to get that under control, I mean, don’t want to be doing that at trials!
But the best is the focus. She gave me the same focus as she does at home, I was happily surprised at that, since she hasn’t had much chance to work at other locations. Good girlie.
Cindy
I’m so happy that her commitment is improving so much, that’s kinda huge, and you see things that I don’t necessarily see. I’ll watch 1:37 again a few times and try to see if I can do that again. This is really important stuff for us!
Last night Georgie went to class, the instructor said it was ok since we have a couple of absences, and another friend was coming with her young dog, too.
Georgie was excited and barked every time a dog took a tunnel, so I tried to distract from that, otherwise might need to crate in the car. But overall she did really well, we just did jump tunnel jump wrap tunnel. Then jump tunnel jump left jump. The we worked some push backs. She jumped her first double (set at 8”), and had a grand time. So pleased how focuses she stayed on me, and I was excited to realize I could actually let go of the toy. (My other dog likes to run off into a tunnel with the toy, and drop it right in the middle of the tunnel, so I learned to hold on tight to toys.) She held her start lines, except once, with much more distance than I get at home because, well, little yard. Lori said she really works to do what I want. And no BIG MADS! LOL.
You’ve given us such a good foundation, it’s amazing how these exercises come together to create real-world skills. I think I have an agility dog!
Cindy
I want to work on this some more, I don’t think I ever successfully got good countermotion on any of the jumps other than maybe the first. Everything happens so fast on this, I couldn’t think past moving toward the jumps and moving away! Change arms, change arms! Awww, too late. LOL.
Cindy
Oh, that’s what happened at :56! Thanks for pointing that out. And I do have to think more about the deceleration, I’ll go back and watch 1:20. I thought I might not have been decelerating as I should, wasn’t thinking too much about it as I ran.
Running with an open bottle of water, that should be interesting, I’ll try it!
I honestly thought she was going to finish the sequence with that toy. At least where it dropped was a good reward for the wrap! She’s such a funny little girl.
Cindy
