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Ugh! The weather is NOT cooperating and my agility field is basically under water/thick deep sticky mud that gets between his toes and hurts him.
I’m hoping for some dry weather and will see if I can pull a tunnel out of the mud and set it up somewhere on higher/drier ground.
AND super tough UKI course this weekend with exactly the challenge we’re trying to master (we haven’t yet since we’re still building to that).
Good news is layered challenge from your course trends paid off huge on that same course – distance weave send with layered dogwalk 😁.
Feeling some FOMO so I’ll post that run. It was a Masters Series class and definitely above our pay grade (since he’s only in Beginner at that venue) but amid the errors we had some amazing moments of brilliance.
Okay, we just did a short session of those same challenges but instead of a more distance send and go for the wing wraps I ran into the wing with him to put myself behind and rushed like you suggested.
Left in a blooper where he slammed onto and rolled my ankle, then showed very little regard for my injury. 🤣
We’ll move on to week 2 Round the Clock unless you want us to revisit anything from Week 1.
We worked on Week 1 Handling Challenge 1 but I kind of screwed up the order. I started with Position 2, then 1, then 3, then 4 (disconnect) but from Position 2.
I think I was also supposed to be really running or fake running on 1,2, 3, but somehow had your disconnected no running example in mind for all positions.
Sorry, long stressful work week and my brain is a little fried.
Let me know if you think we should redo this before moving on.
Busy work week so here’s our first session for class. We just did no motion send to single obstacle (apologies a couple of reps I’m just out of the shot but I promise I just stood still and gave the verbal).
Then some standing verbal only discrimination between jump and tunnel from each side and then from between my legs.
Found this on the course home page:
Additional Course Details
Dates:
Course starts on February 13th, 2023 at 7:00pm Eastern (live introductory zoom discussion followed by release of Week 1 material).😁 I think they’ll also open on or around the 13th. Sometimes Tracy will open new content right AFTER the live Zoom so that she can explain and answer questions about the exercises before folks dive in.
Cindi
I know class is totally over but just wanted to share our end of run improvement thanks to your advice and online Brain Camp.
Here’s a compilation of end of run send to leash with quite a bit of where/how leash is placed at this weekend’s NADAC show.
HUGE improvement and much less “arousal errors” or possible frustration at the end of runs (even when we had some errors out there or leash wasn’t exactly where he expected.
THANK YOU for your help with this!
LOL – next seminar is online Brain Camp this weekend. 😊
Then got a couple of No Q goal weekends of NADAC to practice startline stays and end-of-run behavior. Followed by another Taner weekend and then finally some UKI and USDAA shows.
Sounds good on starting to increase bar height. We’ll also circle back to the Organizers track and work on fading the organizer.
I’ll grab our seminar highlights (2 half-day seminars with Taner at 2 different locations). It’s a splice version where I put together clips to see the full course even though we stopped to work on specific parts of it along the way. Lots of running – more than 30 minutes of each dog working over the 4 hour period each day. It was described as “Young Dog” jumps and tunnels but ended up with LOTS of more experienced dogs (including a few that were on the podium at West Coast Open and US Open) so nicely challenging for Rip. Throughout the days I was like, yep, we’ve worked on this in MaxPup and other AU online courses (plus at Agility Camp IRL).
P.S. We’re not perfect (and watching back I’m like “Wings in” 🤣). Also, couldn’t quite get the 2nd blind on a german turn toward the end of one of our working sessions and we left it as homework (and he’s fine with it, just ran out of time).
Did 2 fun days of seminars with Taner Dogan this weekend. Rip did some great independent push/backside work on some big, fast courses, I got a bit better about trusting him even more, got over a bit of my fear of blinds, overall super fun. I loved that Taner commented on how good a jumper Ripley is and that he complimented me and Rip on how solid his foundation skills are. Big credit to MaxPup series (you) for a lot of that.
We did a bit of work on backside zig zags this morning. Sorry I’m zoomed in a bit so you can’t see his pre-placed toy on either side.
Backside Zig Zags
We have done “find my face”. On course bobbles or uncertainty he’s pretty good about continuing to work until we’re back on track and I just try to keep a flow going until we’re good again. He doesn’t stop to express himself on course (other than a feedback bark if I’m late or crappy).
So, we’ve tried a lot of things lately. I put together this compilation from our show the weekend before last 11/4-11/6 (the new end of run find your leash stuff was just this past weekend 11/11-11/13). Both of these were NADAC shows with double run format (same course 2nd run). The one in this video was very small and no leash runner most classes so I either threw my own leash toward the end or carried it. But, when I asked about sending him to his leash they said “targeting” the leash wasn’t allowed and had a little marker on the ground 8 feet past and 8 feet inset from the last obstacle where they said the leash should be (they pulled the PVC leash hook and didn’t want it used anymore after the first couple of runs). A couple of runs I tried having him find his leash but didn’t yet have the Hollee roller on it and didn’t think I could send him to start tugging it without getting in trouble.
I tried having him lie down and wait, find middle and some other behaviors. This is a longer clip of mostly end of run behavior but I’d really love your feedback. With his drastic improvement with find your leash this past weekend (and not getting in trouble for sending him to it and letting him start tugging) I’m inclined to keep working on that since I don’t feel like his end of run lie down, middle or other things I tried helped him the way I had hoped.
